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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

P`ASTURE, n. [L. pasco, pastum, to feed.]
1. Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture. It is sometimes called pasture-land.
3. Human culture; education. [Not used.]
Common of pasture, is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.
P`ASTURE, v.t. To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.
P`ASTURE, v.i. To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley]
2: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass] v
1: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze, pasture]
2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pastura, from Latin pastus, past participle of pascere to feed — more at food Date: 14th century 1. plants (as grass) grown for the feeding especially of grazing animals 2. land or a plot of land used for grazing 3. the feeding of livestock ; grazing II. verb (pastured; pasturing) Date: 14th century intransitive verb graze, browse transitive verb 1. to feed (as cattle) on pasture 2. to use as pasture

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 land covered with grass etc. suitable for grazing animals, esp. cattle or sheep. 2 herbage for animals. --v. 1 tr. put (animals) to graze in a pasture. 2 intr. & tr. (of animals) graze. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL pastura (as PASTOR)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pasture Pas"ture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pastures) 1. Pasture is land with grass growing on it for farm animals to eat. The cows are out now, grazing in the pasture. N-VAR 2. If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better. Michael decided he wanted to move on to pastures new for financial reasons. PHRASE: prep PHR, v PHR 3. If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass. PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Herbage, herbs, pasturage, grass. 2. Grazing land, pasturage, pasture-ground. II. v. a. Supply with pasturage, graze, turn out to pasture.

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