Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser.
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. Ps. xxiii. 2. So graze as you find pasture. Shak.
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.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
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