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Found 5 hits - Term: pasture, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pasture \pas"ture\, n. of. pasture, f. p^ature, l. pastura,
   fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. see pastor.
   1. food; nourishment. obs.
      1913 webster

            toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. specifically: grass growing for the food of cattle; the
      food of cattle taken by grazing.
      1913 webster

   3. grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
      1913 webster

            he maketh me to lie down in green pastures. --ps.
                                                  xxiii. 2.
      1913 webster

            so graze as you find pasture.         --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
pastor 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1913 webster
see also:
pastured pasturing 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pasture \pas"ture\, v. i.
   to feed on growing grass; to graze.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pasture
     n 1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
          grazing by livestock syn: pastureland, grazing land,
           lea, ley
     2: animal food for browsing or grazing syn: eatage, forage,
         pasturage, grass
     v 1: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow syn: crop, graze
     2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" syn:
         crop, browse, graze, range
see also:
pastureland grazing land lea ley eatage forage 
pasturage grass crop graze browse 
range 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
165 moby thesaurus words for "pasture":
   appetite, arable land, barley, barnyard, barton, batten upon,
   bird seed, board, bran, bread, browse, campo, cannibalism,
   carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cat food, cattle ranch,
   chewing, chicken farm, chicken feed, chop, collective farm,
   consumption, corn, cotton plantation, croft, crop, cropping,
   dairy farm, deglutition, demesne, demesne farm, devouring,
   devourment, dieting, dine, dining, dog food, dry farm, dude ranch,
   eatage, epulation, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold,
   farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fatten on, fatten upon,
   feast on, feast upon, feasting, feed, feed on, feeding, fodder,
   forage, fruit farm, fur farm, gluttony, gobbling, grain,
   grain farm, grange, grass, grass veld, grassland, gratify, graze,
   grazing, hacienda, haugh, haughland, hay, herbivorism, herbivority,
   herbivorousness, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hunger, ingestion,
   kibbutz, kolkhoz, lea, licking, live on, llano, location, mains,
   manducation, manor farm, mash, mastication, mead, meadow,
   meadow land, meal, meat, mess, messing, munching, nibbling,
   nutrition, oats, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, orchard,
   pampa, pampas, pantophagy, park, pasturage, pasture land,
   pasture on, pasturing, pecking, pen, pet food, plantation,
   poultry farm, prairie, prey on, provender, provision, ranch,
   rancheria, rancho, range, regale, regalement, relishing,
   rumination, satisfy, savanna, savoring, scratch, scratch feed,
   sheep farm, silage, slops, station, steading, steppe, steppeland,
   stock farm, straw, sustain, swale, swill, tasting, toft,
   truck farm, vega, vegetarianism, veld, wheat, wine and dine,
   wolfing





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