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Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.

A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.

One of the United States. Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass. -- Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few see…

A pasture; sometimes, food. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.

Pasture; feed. See Lair. [Obs.] Spenser.

A pasture. [Obs.]

To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.

e). -- Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe. -- Moor hawk (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. -- Moor hen. (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the moor fowl. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Moor…

lls which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

Fit for pasture.

Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

om for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner. My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take, With settlement as good as law can make. Dryden.