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An age; a long period of time. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.

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

or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.

e or egg on. [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.

See Scout. [Obs.] Hayward.

The full profits 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.

To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose. [R.] Hayward.

s, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward.

That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.

seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

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

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.

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.