Pas"ture (?), n. [OF. pasture, F.
pâture, L. pastura, fr. pascere,
pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]
1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.]
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.
Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pastured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pasturing.] 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.
Pas"ture, v. i. To feed on growing
grass; to graze.
