Word Meanings - EATAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

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• EATABLE
  Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• GRASS
  An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are
• GRASSY
  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green.
• GRASS TREE
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• GRASSATION
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. Feltham.
• GRASSINESS
  The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
• GRASS-GREEN
  1. Green with grass. 2. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
• AFTERMATH
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.
• CATTLE
  Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• QUITCH GRASS
  A perennial grass having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. (more info) from
• ALFA ; ALFA GRASS
  A plant of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• BROME GRASS
  A genus of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
• ANT-CATTLE
  Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
• BENT GRASS
  See GRASS
• CUTGRASS
  A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.