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verb

Graze v. t. (past & past part. grazed; pres. part. grazing)

1.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. "A field or two to graze his cows."

2.

To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. "The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead."

3.

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. "When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep."

4.

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

Graze v. i.

1.

To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

2.

To yield grass for grazing. "The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose."

3.

To touch something lightly in passing.

noun

Grazing n.

1.

The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

2.

A pasture; growing grass.

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Etymology of 'Grazing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... victoria came near grazing her, but she did not step back. The two women had exchanged a deeply significant glance. It was, in fact, one of those momentary scrutinies which are at once complete and definite. As to the men, they behaved unexceptionably. ...

— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola

... canal bank, in the sunshine, and I will tell you what hard work has to be done to keep this good land of ours. And it is a good land! We should be thankful for it! Just see the rich green meadows over there, with the cows grazing in them!" Father Vedder pointed to the beautiful fields across the canal. "The grass is so rich and fresh, that the cows here give more milk than any other cows in ...

— The Dutch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... came upon ambuscades of great numbers "so strangely painted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying, as we rather supposed them so many divils." Smith, in midstream, ordered musket-fire, and the balls went grazing over the water, and the terrible sound echoed through the woods. The savages threw down their bows and arrows and made signs of friendliness. The English went ashore, hostages were exchanged, and a kind of amicableness ...

— Pioneers of the Old South - A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Mary Johnston

... was the deadly whirlpool of Charybdis. Scylla carried off six of his men who called in vain to Odysseus to save them, stretching out their hands to him in their last agony. From the strait they passed to the island of Trinacria, where they found grazing the cattle of the Sun. Odysseus had learned from both Teiresias and Circe that an evil doom would come upon them if they touched the animals; he therefore made his companions swear a great oath not to touch them if they landed. For a whole month they were wind-bound in the island ...

— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

... in a remote corner of a large field, in which a few Jersey cows were grazing. But this was not quite an ordinary field, as it contained a good many foreign trees with iron railings round them. It was more like a park. In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

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