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[Obs.] The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. Paston.

Backward in time or order of succession; past. Forgetting those things which are behind. Phil. ii. 13.

A pastoral song. [Obs.]

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. Cowper.

ass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

ocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in t…

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.

Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak