P`ASTURE, n. L. pasco, pastum, to feed.
1. Grass for the food of cattle the food of cattle taken by grazing.
2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture. It is sometimes called pasture-land.
3. Human culture education. Not used.
Common of pasture, is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.
P`ASTURE, To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.
P`ASTURE, To graze to take food by eating grass from the ground.