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   Pasture , n. [OF. pasture, F. pâture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]
   Food; nourishment. [Obs.]
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   Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.
   Spenser.
   
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   Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
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   Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
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   He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
   Ps. xxiii. 2.
   
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   So graze as you find pasture.
   Shak.
   
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   Pasture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.] To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
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   Pasture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.
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