Word Meanings - FORAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band

Additional info about word: FORAGE

fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall. 2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Dryden. Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master , a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORAGE)

• Prize
• Booty
• spoil
• plunder
• prey
• forage
• trophy
• laurels
• guerdon
• premium
• honors
• ovation
• palm

Related words: (words related to FORAGE)

• GUERDONABLE
  Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• OVATION
  A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves. 2. Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite. To rain an April of ovation round Their statues.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• GUERDONLESS
  Without reward or guerdon.
• SPOILSMONGER
  One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
• PRIZER
  One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.
• FORAGE
  fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band
• TROPHY
  A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people. Note: A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor,
• BOOTY
  That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
• FORAGER
  One who forages.
• SPOILFUL
  Wasteful; rapacious.
• PRIZEMAN
  The winner of a prize.
• SPOILFIVE
  A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
• PREMIUM
  has got before or better than others; prae before + emere to take, 1. A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior
• PLUNDERAGE
  The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
• PLUNDER
  Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
• HYPERTROPHY
  A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.
• EUTROPHY
  Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
• RENOVATION
  The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.
• INNOVATION
  A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses. (more info) 1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden. 2. A change effected by innovating; a change in
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
• EXSTROPHY
  The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.
• APPRIZER
  A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
• ASTROPHYTON
  A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.
• APPRIZEMENT
  Appraisement.
• OUTPRIZE
  To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.
• FOREPRIZE
  To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.
• PEDOTROPHY
  The art of nourishing children properly.
• ATROPHY
  A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.
• REPRIZE
  See SPENSER