pasture

[O. Fr., from Lat. pastura =a feeding; prop. fem. sing. of fut. par. of pasco = to feed; Fr. pâture; Sp., Port. & Ital. pastura.] *1. Food, nourishment. 2. Ground fit for the grazing of cattle; gra lands, pasture-land. "By this riuer syde there be fayre medowes and pas tures." - Berners: Froi art; Cronycle, vol. ii., ch. cex. 3. Gra for the food of cattle or other animals; the food of cattle taken by grazing. "A carele herd, Full of the pasture , jumps along by him, And never stays." Shakesp.: As You Like It , ii. 4. *4. Human culture or rearing; education. "From the first pastures of our infant age, To elder cares and man's severer page We lash the pupil." Dryden. ( Todd .) pasture-land, s. Land fit for or appropriated to the grazing or pasturing of cattle. pas'-ture, v. t. & i. [PASTURE, 8.] A. Transitive: *1. To feed. "A not here to fede or to pasture him with pappe." Gesta Romanorum, p. 98. 2. To feed on growing gra ; to place in a pasture; to supply with pasture. "An open marsh, on which a considerable number of animals were pastured."- Field, Oct. 3, 1885. B. In trans.: To feed on growing gra ; to graze. "The Indian herdsman tends his pasturing herde Milton: P. L. , ix. 1109. pas-ture-le , a . [Eng. pasture; -le .] Desti tute of pasture. At loopholes cut through thickest shade." pāst-ý, a. [Eng. past (e); -y.] Like paste; ot the consistence or color of paste or dough. "Becoming, if not a mealy-faced, at least a pasty -faced boy."-London Daily Telegraph,