Definitions for the word "Grass" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To cover with grass or with turf.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To produce grass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 a any of a group of wild plants with green blades that are eaten by ruminants. B plant of the family which includes cereals, reeds, and bamboos. 2 pasture land. 3 grass-covered ground, lawn. 4 grazing (out to grass). 5 slang marijuana. 6 slang informer. v. 1 cover with turf. 2 us provide with pasture. 3 slang a betray, esp. To the police. B inform the police. grassy adj. (-ier, -iest). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
“gone to GRASS,” dead,—a coarse allusion to burial; absconded,
or disappeared suddenly; also, gone to waste; it is said of wasted limbs
that they have “gone to GRASS;” “oh, go to GRASS,” a common answer to a
troublesome or inquisitive person,—possibly a corruption of “go to
GRACE,” meaning, of course, a directly opposite fate.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
11. slang
to knock down. Also to throw in a wrestling-match. “He GRASSED
his man with a heavy righthander,” or “He brought his man to GRASS by
means of a swinging hipe.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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