Pasture

n.	1.	Food; nourishment. 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.
v. t.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Pastured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]
v. i.	1.	To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Noun	1.	pasture - a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pastureland, lea
	2.	pasture - animal food for browsing or grazing Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, grass
Verb	1.	pasture - let feed in a field or pasture or meadow Synonyms: graze, crop
	2.	pasture - feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" Synonyms: graze, browse, crop, range

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