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Grass

noun
1.
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay.
2.
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927).  Synonyms: Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass.
3.
A police informer who implicates many people.  Synonym: supergrass.
4.
Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.  Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture.
5.
Street names for marijuana.  Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed.
verb
(past & past part. grassed; pres. part. grassing)
1.
Shoot down, of birds.
2.
Cover with grass.
3.
Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach.
4.
Cover with grass.  Synonym: grass over.
5.
Feed with grass.
6.
Give away information about somebody.  Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on.



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"Grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... cut; and the pit was neatly covered with these, and strewed over, as well as a large tract of the adjoining ground, with rushes and grass. The most sagacious animal would have been deceived by the appearance; even a fox could not have discovered the tray before ...
— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid
... the stone. Such a soil is not for plants that strike deep roots; and perhaps in the whole Island nothing has ever yet grown to the height of a table. The uncultivated parts are clothed with heath, among which industry has interspersed spots of grass and corn; but no attempt has yet been made to raise a tree. Young Col, who has a very laudable desire of improving his patrimony, purposes some time to plant an orchard; which, if it be sheltered by a wall, ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson
... you to begin with,' said she, 'but there is more coming.' She then read a letter from the ladies with directions about the needlework, to which Susan and her mother listened with great attention. Then Sarah jumped up, saying she must not let the grass grow under her feet, for she had plenty to do. The whole house was to be got ready; and she would not have a thing out of its place, nor a speck of dust to be found, for ...
— The Doll and Her Friends - or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina • Unknown
... about three years after they became orphans, that rain had been for a while withheld from the earth, the hillsides began to parch, the grass in the vales to wither, and the stream of Corrie was diminished between its banks to the size of an ordinary rill. The shepherds drove their flocks to moorlands, and marsh and tarn had their reeds invaded by the scythe to supply the cattle with food. The sheep of his sister were Elphin's constant ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous
... stomach, as well as the bowels, is invariably upset. If the indigestion is the result of a slower process, the stomach does not participate in the process. The color of the stools in infancy is yellow, then yellowish-green, and later grass-green. Undigested food is always present and in infants the curdled casein of the milk appears as white specks ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague


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