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English Dictionary: PASTURE by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pasture
n
  1. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
    Synonym(s): pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley
  2. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): crop, browse, graze, range, pasture
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pasture \Pas"ture\, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[83]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.
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