Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of Graze?

\Graze\ (gr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grazed} (gr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Grazing}.] [OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. gr[ae]s grass. See {Grass}.] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. --Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. --Pope. 3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. --Shak. 4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
\Graze\, v. i. 1. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows. 2. To yield grass for grazing. The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose. --Bacon. 3. To touch something lightly in passing.
\Graze\, n. 1. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass. [Colloq.] Turning him out for a graze on the common. --T. Hughes. 2. A light touch; a slight scratch.