Word Meanings - PASTURER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

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• GRAZE
  Etym: 1. To feed or supply with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat ; to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. 3. To tend
• GRAZER
  One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.
• CATTLE
  Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track
• AGISTER; AGISTOR
  Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at
• MAGISTERIALITY
  Magisterialness; authoritativeness. Fuller.
• MAGISTERY
  A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure. (more info) 1. Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy;
• MAGISTERIAL
  Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.
• ANT-CATTLE
  Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
• MAGISTERIALNESS
  The quality or state of being magisterial.
• MAGISTER
  Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
• MAGISTERIALLY
  In a magisterial manner.
• SWEEPSTAKES
  The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. (more