Pasture \Pas"ture\, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[^a]ture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]

1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

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 pastures. --Ps. xxiii. 2.

So graze as you find pasture. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pasture \Pas"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]

To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pasture \Pas"ture\, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)