Word Meanings - PASTURAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Related words: (words related to PASTURAGE)
- PASTURER
One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister. - GROWLER
The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls. - GROWL
To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - PASTURELESS
Destitute of pasture. Milton. - PASTURAGE
1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle. - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - GROWAN
A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall. - GROWER
One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. - GROW
1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and - GRASSPLOT
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak. - PASTURE
1. Food; nourishment. 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 - GRASS-GROWN
Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road. - BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. - GRASS
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are - GRASSY
1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - REPASTURE
Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UPGROW
To grow up. Milton. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - STALL-FEED
To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox. - FULL-GROWN
Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell. - WATER GRASS
The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. - FOREGROUND
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. - SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.