Word Meanings - PASTURELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of pasture. Milton.

PASTURER
One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
PASTURELESS
Destitute of pasture. Milton.
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
DESTITUTENESS
Destitution. Ash.
DESTITUTE
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
DESTITUTELY
In destitution.
REPASTURE
Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
DEPASTURE
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.
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
IMPASTURE
To place in a pasture; to foster. T. Adams.