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Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

full, out of doors he flings. Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

-- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

One who fodders cattle.

(Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech. Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.

Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Dryden. Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.

To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear 1 Kinds xxii. 6.

Foremost part or place. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] "All this done upon the gad!" Shak.

me off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

tive inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition. [Spelt also gour.]

A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.