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Allowed to pasture on public commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.

A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. Shak. Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Chuchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, reg…

able of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. He that before ran in the pastures wild Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws. Drayton. By these men, religion,that should be The curb, is made the spur of tyranny. Denham.

s or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

ofits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in anotheEx. xxii. 5.

That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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

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.

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.

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

To feed or pasture. [Obs.]

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.

A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.