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      "\u02c8p\u00e6s\u02a7\u0259r"
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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin past\u016bra, from the stem of pascere (\u201cto feed, graze\u201d)."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding."
          },
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            "mean": "Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.\nSynonym: (dialectal) leasow\n1611,  The Holy Bible,\u00a0 (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, Psalms 23:2:He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.\n1611 April (first recorded performance),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe Tragedie of Cymbeline\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :So graze as you find pasture."
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          {
            "mean": "(obsolete) Food, nourishment.\n1590,  Edmund Spenser,  \u201cBook III, Canto X\u201d, in  The Faerie Queene.\u00a0, London:     for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC:Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous   .\n1831 July 15,  \u201cOf the Blood\u201d, in  Western Journal of Health\u200e, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils."
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            "mean": "(transitive) To move animals into a pasture."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To graze."
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            "mean": "(transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.\nThe farmer pastures fifty oxen.\nThe land will pasture forty cows."
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