Pasture — Defs

01 n. Food; nourishment.

1.
Food; nourishment.[Obs.]
“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 pastures.” — Ps. xxiii. 2.

“So graze as you find pasture.” — Shak.

02 v. t. 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.

imp. & p. p. Pastured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing

1.
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.

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