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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Forage

Fôr'age, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. fourage, N. Fr. fourrage, Pr. fourage, Sp. forrage, Pg. forragem, L. Lat. foragium, forragium, fourragium, farragium, forrago, from O. Fr. forre, fuerre, fouarre, N. Fr. feurre, Pr. forre, It. fodero, L. Lat. foderum, fotrum, from O. H. Ger. fuotar, fōtar, fodder, nourishment, N. H. Ger. futter, Eng. fodder, q. v.]

Sense 1. The act of providing food; search for provisions.

The lion from forage will incline to play. Shak.

A hand select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton.

Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

Sense 2. Food of any kind for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, and oats.

Fōr'age, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. FORAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. FORAGING.] To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food for horses and cattle by wandering about and feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.

Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. Shak.

Foraging cap, a military undress cap. — Foraging party, a party sent out for forage. Simmonds.

Fōr'age, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. Pope.