Pas"ture (?), n. [OF. pasture, F. pature, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]
1.
Food; nourishment.
[Obs.]
Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.
Spenser.
2.
Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
3.
Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
Ps. xxiii. 2.
So graze as you find pasture.
Shak.
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Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]
To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
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Pas"ture, v. i.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
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