Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F.
f['e]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.]
1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out
letters to children when learning to read. ``Pedantic
fescue.'' --Sterne.
To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton.
2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.]
--Chapman.
3. The style of a dial. [Obs.]
4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca)
containing several species of importance in agriculture.
Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is
meadow fescue.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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