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Webster 1913 Edition

Pasture

Pas′ture

,
Noun.
[OF.
pasture
, F.
pâture
, L.
pastura
, fr.
pascere
,
pastum
, to pasture, to feed. See
Pastor
.]
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
.
Shakespeare

Pas′ture

,
Verb.
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.

Pas′ture

,
Verb.
I.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pasture

P`ASTURE

,
Noun.
[L. pasco, pastum, to feed.]
1.
Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
2.
Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture. It is sometimes called pasture-land.
3.
Human culture; education. [Not used.]
Common of pasture, is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.

P`ASTURE

,
Verb.
T.
To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.

P`ASTURE

,
Verb.
I.
To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.

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