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Definition of Forage
1. Noun. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.
Generic synonyms: Fodder
Derivative terms: Pasture, Pasture, Pasture, Pasture
2. Verb. Collect or look around for (food). "The men forage for animals in the area"
Generic synonyms: Hunt, Hunt Down, Run, Track Down
Specialized synonyms: Rustle
Derivative terms: Foraging, Scrounger
3. Noun. The act of searching for food and provisions.
4. Verb. Wander and feed. "The animals forage"; "The animals forage in the woods"
Definition of Forage
1. n. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
2. v. i. To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
3. v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Definition of Forage
1. to search about [v -AGED, -AGING, -AGES]
Medical Definition of Forage
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1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. "He [the lion] from forage will incline to play." (Shak) "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine." (Milton) "Mawhood completed his forage unmolested." (Marshall)
2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Forage cap. See Cap. Forage master, a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.
Origin: OF. Fourage, F. Fourrage, fr. Forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. Feurre, fr. LL. Foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. Fuotar, G. Futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.
To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, especially. Forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. "His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility.
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