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verb

Graze v. t. (past & past part. grazed; pres. part. grazing)

1.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. "A field or two to graze his cows."

2.

To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. "The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead."

3.

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. "When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep."

4.

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

Graze v. i.

1.

To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

2.

To yield grass for grazing. "The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose."

3.

To touch something lightly in passing.

noun

Grazing n.

1.

The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

2.

A pasture; growing grass.

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"Grazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Goldbug was eagerly grazing—too eagerly for his own good. The man recognized the signs of starvation and led him to a tree, where he brought him a little water in his own great tin dipper. Then he relieved him of saddle and bridle and left him tied while he hastily stowed a few hard-tack and ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... take what they pleased. In this instance, the game consisted principally of beasts of chase; and, on one occasion, one thousand stags, as many of the ibex, wild sheep (mouflions from Sardinia?), and other grazing animals, besides one thousand wild boars, and as many ostriches, were turned loose by ...

— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

... him I hadn't noticed anything peculiar, that I had noticed he had taken his white cow out in front of our battery, grazing her there just before the ...

— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant

... camp. They were so far up in the mountains that the night was cool, even though the season was midsummer. Unused to sleeping outdoors as yet, Roy lay awake far into the night. His nerves were jumpy. The noises of the grazing horses and of the four-footed inhabitants of the night startled him more than once from a cat-nap. His thoughts were full of Beulah Rutherford. Was she alive or dead to-night, in peril or ...

— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine

... the little boat danced upon the swell as they rounded the outlying rocks. Estelle was on the look-out for dangers, but Marjorie understood her business too well, and they glided along without even grazing a single jagged point. The gulls, startled from their perch on the heights by the approach of the boat, rose, flapping and shrieking. It seemed as if hundreds were circling about the rocks, only to settle down again as the little skiff drew away ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

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