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Graze   /greɪz/   Listen
Graze

verb
(past & past part. grazed; pres. part. grazing)
1.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range.
2.
Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping.
3.
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.  Synonyms: crop, pasture.
4.
Scrape gently.  Synonyms: crease, rake.
5.
Eat lightly, try different dishes.  Synonym: browse.
noun
1.
A superficial abrasion.
2.
The act of grazing.  Synonym: grazing.






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"Graze" Quotes from Famous Books



... pipes. These were what are called the Syrinx or Pandean pipes. Argus listened with delight, for he had never seen the instrument before. "Young man," said he, "come and take a seat by me on this stone. There is no better place for your flocks to graze in than hereabouts, and here is a pleasant shade such as shepherds love." Mercury sat down, talked, and told stories till it grew late, and played upon his pipes his most soothing strains, hoping to lull the watchful ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... Commandant, and the priests, exercised all the functions of civil magistrates, and decided the few controversies which arose among these primitive in habitants, who held and occupied many things in common. They suffered their ponies, their cattle, their swine, and their flocks, to ramble and graze on the same common prairies and pastures—having but few fences or inclosures, and possessing but little of that spirit of speculation, enterprise, and money-making, which has always ...
— The First White Man of the West • Timothy Flint

... the future navigation was completing, a disaster happened with regard to the cattle which had been carried out in the Resolution. They had been conveyed on shore for the purpose of grazing. The bull, and two cows, with their calves, had been sent to graze along with some other cattle: but Captain Cook was advised to keep the sheep, which were sixteen in number, close to the tents, where they were penned up every evening. During the night preceding the 14th, some dogs having gotten in among ...
— Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, • A. Kippis

... his happiness," said the champion; "and may it not be for his prosperity, his first taking of arms. Let him not be in our land, and let the horses not graze there ...
— The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) • Unknown

... were in the Theatre at Oxford, Farmer Tester was away at one of the markets. He turns his big cattle out to graze on the common, which the poor people say he has no right to do, and in the afternoon a pony of his got into the allotments, and Betty's son caught it, and took it to the constable, and had it put in the pound. The constable tried to persuade him not to do it, but it was of no use; and so, ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes


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