'Grazing' definitions:
Definition of 'grazing'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Grazing'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A field or two to graze his cows. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. [1913 Webster]
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. [1913 Webster]
- When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grazing'
From: GCIDE
- Grazing \Graz"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of one who, or that which, grazes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A pasture; growing grass. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grazing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- animal husbandry,
- animal rearing,
- appetite,
- attrition,
- bee culture,
- beekeeping,
- breeding,
- brushing,
- buffing,
- burnishing,
- campo,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- cattle-ranching,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- chewing,
- chicken-farming,
- consumption,
- contacting,
- contingent,
- cropping,
- dairy-farming,
- deglutition,
- detrition,
- devouring,
- devourment,
- dieting,
- dining,
- dressage,
- dressing,
- eating,
- epulation,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- feasting,
- feeding,
- filing,
- fretting,
- galling,
- glancing,
- gluttony,
- gnotobiotics,
- gobbling,
- grass,
- grass veld,
- grassland,
- grinding,
- haugh,
- haughland,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- herding,
- horse training,
- horsemanship,
- hunger,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- in contact,
- ingestion,
- lea,
- licking,
- limation,
- llano,
- manducation,
- mastication,
- mead,
- meadow,
- meadow land,
- meeting,
- messing,
- mink-ranching,
- munching,
- nibbling,
- nudging,
- nutrition,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- osculatory,
- pampa,
- pampas,
- pantophagy,
- park,
- pasturage,
- pasture,
- pasture land,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- pig-keeping,
- polishing,
- prairie,
- range,
- rasping,
- regalement,
- relishing,
- rubbing,
- rubbing away,
- rumination,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- savanna,
- savoring,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- sheepherding,
- shining,
- smoothing,
- steppe,
- steppeland,
- stock raising,
- stockbreeding,
- swale,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tasting,
- thremmatology,
- touching,
- vega,
- vegetarianism,
- veld,
- wear,
- wearing away,
- wolfing,
- zootechnics,
- zootechny