Agist

[ә'dʒist]

Definition

(v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

Checker: Otis

Definition

v.t. to take in the cattle of others to graze for a certain sum: to charge lands or the like with any public burden.—ns. Agist′ment the action of agisting: the price paid for cattle pasturing on the land: a burden or tax; Agist′or Agist′er an officer who takes charge of cattle agisted.

Edited by Bernice