Pasture

(pȧst'yur, 53), n. [O. Fr. pasture, N. Fr. pâture, Pr., Sp., Pg., It., & Lat. pastura, from Lat. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed.]

1Sense 1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.] “Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.” Spenser.

2Sense 2. Specifically, grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

3Sense 3. Ground covered with grass, to be eaten on the spot by cattle, horses, &c.; pasture-ground.

So graze as you find pasture. Shak.

Common of pasture (Law), right of feeding cattle on another's ground in common with the owner, or with others.

[imp. & p. p. PASTURED; p. pr. & vb. n. PASTURING.] To feed on growing grass, or to supply grass for food; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.