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pasture |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pasture \Pas"ture\, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[^a]ture, L. pastura, fr pascere pastum to pasture, to feed. See {Pastor}.] 1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. --Spenser. 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. --Ps. xxiii. 2. So graze as you find pasture. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pasture \Pas"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pastured}; p. pr & vb n. {Pasturing}.] To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pasture \Pas"ture\, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pasture n 1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: {pastureland}, {grazing land}, {lea}, {ley}] 2: animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: {eatage}, {forage}, {pasturage}, {grass}] v 1: let (animals) feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: {crop}, {graze}] 2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: {crop}, {browse}, {graze}, {range}]
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