Search the Dictionary

d as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.

A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.

Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous. [Obs.] "Frim pastures." Drayton.

terial for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. Bacon. The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. Shak.

ng. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared food for caged birds. -- German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. Raymond. -- German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. --…

or use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.

state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.…

To feed or pasture. [Obs.]

, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift.

One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market. The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen. Stow.

A pasture; growing grass.