pasture

Definitions

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
   countable, uncountable
2. neighbourhood, region
3. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
   countable, uncountable
4. Food, nourishment.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. semibreve, whole note
6. feminine singular of redondo

Equivalents

Examples

“He maketh me to lie⟳ down in green pastures.”

“So graze as you find⟳ pasture.”

“Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed⟳, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].”

“It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want⟳ of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create⟳ a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.”

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