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noun

Pasture n.

Food; nourishment. (Obs.) "Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous."

Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." "So graze as you find pasture."

verb

Pasture v. t. (past & past part. pastured; pres. part. 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.

Pasture v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

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"Pasture" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyes, and thanked the captain heartily. She set to work, and by and by all the town turned out to see the Alderney meekly going to her pasture, clad in dark grey flannel. I have watched her myself many a time. Do you ever see cows dressed in grey flannel ...

— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

... means of laying siege to the forts, as he was without cannon; so he made no effort to effect their capture. But he did not check his warriors from roaming at will over the valley. Running down the slopes into the pasture land, they rounded up the horses, the herds of black cattle, and the browsing sheep; and, having collected these together, they drove them from the meadows and disappeared with them among the trees. Before ...

— The War Chief of the Six Nations - A Chronicle of Joseph Brant - Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • Louis Aubrey Wood

... watch-dogs, and Jack, who by this time was very hungry, even thought that he sniffed a savoury odour of cooking in the damp air, that mightily urged him forward. At length, they saw before them a large rambling cottage, with dairy-buildings adjoining it, standing on a firm piece of pasture-land that formed a green peninsula rising above the black fens they had just been traversing. A row of poplars behind it, and a plantation on either side, shut it in from any one passing at a short distance. There was also a kitchen and flower-garden in front, and considerable care had evidently ...

— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... attacks of their neighbours, they would have leisure to devote some of their energies to the cultivation of the plains around them. Troy was founded first up in the hills,(195) and afterwards was moved down to a good position on the lower ground for the sake no doubt of the better pasture in the river meadows, and of the agriculture which had long been carried on over the "wheat-bearing plain" around the city,(196) before the ravages ...

— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm

... stone, a cold grey tint on a background of green pasture lands and blue mountains. I daresay you wouldn't like it. It would recall nothing to you, but when I think of it, much less see it, I re-live my childhood all over again. I am a great person for old times. ...

— Spring Days • George Moore

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