Category:Pasture

Pas"ture, n. Etym: [of. pasture, f. pâture, 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.

Pasture Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]

Defn: 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.

Pasture Pas"ture, v. i.

Defn: to feed on growing grass; to graze.