Word Meanings - DEPASTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

Related words: (words related to DEPASTURE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PASTURER
  One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• PASTURELESS
  Destitute of pasture. Milton.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• PASTURE
  1. Food; nourishment. Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser. 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green
• RIGHT-MINDED
  Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHT-HANDED
  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
• RIGHT-HEARTED
  Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHTEOUSLY
  In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
• RIGHTNESS
  Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon. 2. The quality or state of being right; right relation. The craving for rightness with God. J. C. Shairp.
• GRAZE
  Etym: 1. To feed or supply with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat ; to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. 3. To tend
• RIGHTLESS
  Destitute of right. Sylvester.
• RIGHTLY
  1. Straightly; directly; in front. Shak. 2. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed. 3. Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately. Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind.
• RIGHTER
  One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong. Shelton.
• RIGHTWISE
  Righteous. Wyclif.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• REPASTURE
  Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• SELF-RIGHTEOUS
  Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
• SPRIGHTFUL
  Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.
• BEDRIGHT; BEDRITE
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.