"graze" Definition

Definitions for the word "graze" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To yield grass for grazing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To touch something lightly in passing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A light touch; a slight scratch.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v.
(-zing) 1 (of cattle, sheep, etc.) Eat growing grass. 2 a feed (cattle etc.) On growing grass. B feed on (grass). 3 pasture cattle. [old english: related to *grass]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
11. v.
(-zing) 1 rub or scrape (part of the body, esp. The skin). 2 a touch lightly in passing. B (foll. By against, along, etc.) Move with a light passing contact. n. Abrasion. [perhaps from *graze1, as if ‘take off the grass close to the ground’]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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