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noun

Forage n.

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. "He (the lion) from forage will incline to play." "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine." "Mawhood completed his forage unmolested."

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

Forage cap. See under Cap.

Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.

verb

Forage v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

Forage v. i. (past & past part. foraged; pres. part. foraging) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. "His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility."

Foraging ant (Zool.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food.

Foraging cap, a forage cap.

Foraging party, a party sent out after forage.

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"Forage" Quotes from Famous Books

... a feast made Tom's heart much lighter, and he brought out his pocket-knife and cut out some of the steaks. Then he moved down the hillside to where some brush promised abundant firewood and better forage ...

— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield

... tone to the representation of his characters. There were more books in the house than was usual even in that of a gentleman farmer; and several of Sir Walter's novels, besides some travels, and a little Scotch history, were read between them that winter. In poetry, Annie had to forage for herself. Mrs Forbes could lend her no guiding ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... have again to relate another shameful instance of plunder which happened on the same march. We were encamped near a village of no particular note, and of which therefore I did not arrive at the exact name: and a party of men, perhaps to the number of about twenty, including myself, were out on the forage, when we arrived at the house of a poor woman, who evidently kept a kind of general shop, though we could not see any other houses near. Four or five with myself went into the shop and asked the woman if she had any bread for sale, to which she replied ...

— The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence - A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns • William Lawrence

... camp for the night, pitching his headquarters in a clump of wood near Rock Creek, and not far from Crystal Spring. And here let me record that the general had not even a camp guard. To make the matter worse, there was no forage for the horses, and nothing for supper. Never was general so much to be pitied. The two orderlies, however, were willing fellows, and soon had a fire lighted. They then proceeded to a neighboring house, and got refreshments for the general, without which he must have ...

— Siege of Washington, D.C. • F. Colburn Adams

... Tamara said. "Jack, be a dear and go and forage about and get hold of Serge Grekoff, if you can see him, or Mr. Strong, or Sasha Basmanoff, or some one who might know—but it seems as if none of them ...

— His Hour • Elinor Glyn

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