fescue : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fescue	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fescue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fescue n grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns Synonym(s): fescue, fescue grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[ecr]s"k[usl]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f[82]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. [bd]Pedantic fescue.[b8] --Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus {Festuca}. {Fescue grass} (Bot.), a genus of grasses ({Festuca}) containing several species of importance in agriculture. {Festuca ovina} is {sheep's fescue}; {F. elatior} is {meadow fescue}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[ecr]s"k[usl]), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Fescued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fescuing}.] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. --Milton.