Grass

[grɑːs] or [ɡræs]

Definition

(noun.) German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927).

(noun.) narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay.

(verb.) shoot down, of birds.

(verb.) feed with grass.

(verb.) cover with grass.

(verb.) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach.

(verb.) cover with grass; 'The owners decided to grass their property'.

Typist: Sam--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

(n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

(n.) The season of fresh grass; spring.

(n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory.

(v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf.

(v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

(v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.

(v. i.) To produce grass.

Typist: Ronald

Definition

n. common herbage: an order of plants (Gramine) the most important in the whole vegetable kingdom with long narrow leaves and tubular stem including wheat rye oats rice millet and all those which supply food for nearly all graminivorous animals: short for asparagus—sparrow-grass: time of grass spring or summer: the surface of a mine.—v.t. to cover with grass: to feed with grass: to bring to the grass or ground as a bird or a fish—(various perennial fodder grasses are timothy fox-tail cock's-foot and the fescue grasses Italian rye-grass &c.).—ns. Grass′-Cloth a name applied to different kinds of coarse cloth the fibre of which is rarely that of a grass esp. to the Chinese summer-cloth made from Bœhmeria nivea which is really a nettle; Grass′-cut′ter one of the attendants on an Indian army whose work is to provide provender for the baggage-cattle; Grass′er an extra or temporary worker in a printing-office.—adjs. Grass′-green green with grass: green as grass; Grass′-grown grown over with grass.—ns. Grass′hopper a saltatorial orthopterous insect nearly allied to locusts and crickets keeping quiet during the day among vegetation but noisy at night; Grass′iness; Grass′ing the exposing of linen in fields to air and light for bleaching purposes; Grass′-land permanent pasture; Grass′-oil a name under which several volatile oils derived from widely different plants are grouped; Grass′-plot a plot of grassy ground; Grass′-tree a genus of Australian plants with shrubby stems tufts of long wiry foliage at the summit and a tall flower-stalk with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers; Grass′-wid′ow a wife temporarily separated from her husband often also a divorced woman or one deserted by her husband; Grass′-wrack the eel-grass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.—adj. Grass′y covered with or resembling grass green.—Go to grass to be turned out to pasture esp. of a horse too old to work: to go into retirement to rusticate: to fall violently (of a pugilist); Let the grass grow under one's feet to loiter linger.—Spanish grass (see Esparto).

Editor: Quentin