Definition of Grazing

1. Noun. The act of grazing.

Exact synonyms: Graze
Generic synonyms: Eating, Feeding
Derivative terms: Graze, Graze, Graze, Graze, Graze, Graze, Graze

2. Noun. The act of brushing against while passing.
Exact synonyms: Shaving, Skimming
Generic synonyms: Touch, Touching
Derivative terms: Graze, Graze, Shave

Definition of Grazing

1. n. The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

Definition of Grazing

1. Verb. (present participle of graze) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grazing

1. land used for the feeding of animals [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grazing

graystone
graystones
graywacke
graywackes
graywater
graywaters
grazable
graze
grazeable
grazed
grazer
grazers
grazes
grazier
graziers
grazing (current term)
grazing fire
grazing land
grazingly
grazings
grazioso
grease
grease-gun
grease-monkey
grease gun
grease guns
grease heel
grease money
grease monkey
grease monkeys

Literary usage of Grazing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of Silviculture: With Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"Protection by close regulation of the grazing in the area to be protected. ... Exceptions will be found in forests where grazing is exceedingly injurious. ..."

2. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"That no cattle or live stock shall hereafter be brought upon said lands for herding or grazing thereon; In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and ..."

3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"This difference leads to the inference that moor or waste land is wrongly returned as fallow in some of the grazing counties. The proportion of the acreage ..."

4. Resource Conservation: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"The grazing Lands Initiative was begun nearly 5 years ago by private grazing landowners and managers working through various conservation, environmental, ..."

5. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"The land has many purposes, including grazing of privately owned livestock. Cattle owners compensate the government for using the land by paying grazing ..."

6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Whose leaders parted them to either side In rank and rank, with ease, as goat-herds part Their goats, late grazing in promiscuous herd. ..."

7. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"grazing Incidence and grazing Emergence.—The angle GHJ between the normals to the two faces of the prism is equal to the refracting angle ß; and hence for a ..."

8. The Indian Forester (1886)
"LIGHT grazing IN FORESTS IN THE STAGE OF REPRODUCTION.* Is February last a letter was circulated by the Government of India on light grazing in the Berar ..."

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