Grass

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A member of the grass family.
  • noun. The members of the grass family considered as a group.
  • noun. Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.
  • noun. An expanse of ground, such as a lawn, covered with grass or similar plants.
  • noun. Grazing land; pasture.
  • noun. Marijuana.
  • noun. Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
  • noun. An informer.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cover with grass.
  • intransitive verb. To grow grass on.
  • intransitive verb. To feed (livestock) with grass.
  • intransitive verb. To become covered with grass.
  • intransitive verb. To graze.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover with grass or with turf; furnish with grass: as, to grass a lawn.
  • To throw on or bring down to the grass or ground, as a bird shot on the wing, or a fish caught from the water.
  • To lose in the grass.
  • To feed with growing grass; pasture.
  • To breed grass; be covered with grass.
  • In printing, to discharge (a workman).
  • In printing, to seek or give temporary employment.
  • noun. In printing, temporary employment.
  • noun. The esparto, Stipa tenacissima.
  • noun. See blear-grass, 2.
  • noun. In the northwesern United States, Xerophyllum tenax. Its very slender and tough leaves, 2 or 3 feet long, were used by the Indians in making water-tight baskets. This is the bear-grass of Lewis and Clark. Also called squaw-grass and squaw-lily, and, in Idaho, pine-lily. See Xerophyllum.
  • noun. Same as Texas millet.
  • noun. The freshwater cord-grass, Spartina cynosuroides
  • noun. The wire-grass or yard-grass, Eleusine Indica.
  • noun. See St. Augustine grass.
  • noun. A brown-sedge a foot or two high, Andropogon scoparius, valued for grazing in the mountains of the southern United States. In the West (where it is called little blue-stem) it is less valued than the former for hay.
  • noun. Same as guinea-grass.
  • noun. In general, herbage; the plants on which cattle and other beasts feed or pasture; the verdurous covering of the soil.
  • noun. Specifically In botany, any plant of the order Gramineœ (which see).
  • noun. plural Stalks or sprays of grass: as, the fireplace was filled with dried grasses.
  • noun. Asparagus.
  • noun. In mining, the surface of the ground at the mine.
  • noun. In turf parlance, the time of new verdure; spring or summer: as, the colt will be three this grass.
  • noun. See to take heart of grace, under grace.
  • noun. The Eleusine Indica. See Eleusine.
  • noun. Bermuda grass, Cynodon Dactylon.
  • noun. In Queensland, the Chloris divaricata.
  • noun. To go into retirement; rusticate: commonly used in the imperative, with the contemptuous force of “Get out!'
  • noun. To die; go to the grave.
  • noun. To fall violently; be knocked down, as a pugilist in the ring: as, he tripped and went to grass.
  • noun. In mining, to the surface: as, send the ore to grass.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To produce grass.
  • transitive verb. To cover with grass or with turf.
  • transitive verb. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • transitive verb. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
  • Word Usage
    "LILY _gathering flowers and grass among the grass_."
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    Alsace  Cass  Glass  Grasse  Jas  
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    bush  flower  fruit  garden  grind  
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