单词 | grazing |
释义 | grazingn.1 1. a. The action of graze v.1; pasturing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing grazingc1440 pascuage1656 benting1670 depasturage1766 depasturing1823 depasturation1841 depasture1856 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing pasturea1398 grazingc1440 pasturagea1522 feed1575 running1577 graziery1762 pasturing1819 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 210/2 Gresynge, of beestys fedyngs, pastura. c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Suche and suche, That of late are made riche, Have to, to, to myche By grasyng and regratinge. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 28 There is no doubt but that pasturage, grasing, and shepheardrie, were before husbandrie and tillage. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 19 The Laplanders live by hunting and grasing. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. xix The mode of grazing in Romney Marsh and East Kent. 1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 275 Where he may watch his Alderneys at their quiet grazing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss congeec1330 turnc1330 putc1350 dismitc1384 refusea1387 repel?a1439 avyec1440 avoida1464 depart1484 license1484 to give (a person) his (also her, etc.) leave?a1513 demit1529 dispatcha1533 senda1533 to send a grazing1533 demise1541 dimiss1543 abandon1548 dimit1548 discharge1548 dismiss1548 to turn off1564 aband1574 quit1575 hencea1586 cashier1592 to turn away1602 disband1604 amand1611 absquatulize1829 chassé1847 to send to the pack1912 1533 T. More Apol. xxxvi, in Wks. 901/2 Hys remembraunce was good inoughe, saue that it went about in grasing til it was beaten home. a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. iv. 53 Being tyred with his new Peere, he turned her off to grazing. 1688 W. Kennett in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 258 The several counties whither we were sent a grazing. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 23 The young Cully sends him out a-grazing like Nebuchadnezzar, with scarce a Shirt to his back. 2. Grazing ground, pasture-land, pasture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1517 Domesday Inclos. (1897) I. 220 Wher ther was ij plowys wele ocupyd, now yt ys retorned to pasteure and grasyng. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 181 They doo feede them commonly in the fieldes of rice, for that they haue no other grasinges. 1752 J. Stewart Let. 19 May in Scots Mag. (1753) June 295/1 Having..taken grasings south for the cattle. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 26 The grazings on which their grandsires fed their flocks and herds. 1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 147 In open plains, where there is good grazing. Compounds C1. General attributive, as grazing country, grazing ground, grazing land, grazing rights. ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §595 If the Ground be Grazing Ground. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 13 A second sort of grazing Ground. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 50 Numerous tracts of fine arable and grazing land intervene between the ridges. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland Pref. p. v Down to a comparatively recent period, it [sc. England] was a great grazing country. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 254 Their owners commenced to grumble if the Rainbow cattle fed over their grazing rights. C2. grazing guard n. a guard placed over the cattle of an army whilst grazing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > person > grazing guard grass guard1744 grazing guard1893 1893 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/2 Captain Borrow and Sir John Willoughby..galloped out of laager..and headed them off back to the grazing guard. Derivatives grazing-like adj. ΚΠ 1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 404 The same open, grazing-like land is every where seen. Draft additions 1993 transferred. The action of graze v.1 2c, 2d colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > [noun] surreption1526 conveyancea1529 subductiona1646 snicking1673 abstraction1823 snitching1933 grazing1979 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating small amounts > specifically in a supermarket grazing1979 1979 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 19/8 In almost any supermarket partially-consumed packages of biscuits, cheese, potato chips and other tasty things are found to provide the tell-tale evidence of ‘grazing’. 1983 Verbatim Autumn 9/1 ‘Grazing’, to us, has a depraved connotation. A ‘grazer’ is usually wild-eyed and clad in rumpled pajamas as he forages from cabinet to cabinet. 1984 Supermarket News 15 Oct. ii. A1/1 Employe practices also affect the grazing problem, Taylor said, among them regular rest breaks. 1986 Artseen Dec. 30/1 So much quality time down the pan waiting on some dozy airhead with attitude to quit grazing, and pick up the goddam handset! 1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time v. 117 The finicky princess-and-pea meals favored by the foodies were suddenly unsubstantial, and we avoided the grazing restaurants in favor of the all-American. 1991 Times 10 July 25/5 The more channels there are, the more ‘grazing’..there is, the better the chance people will watch infomercials. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). grazingn.2 The action of graze v.2; the touching or rubbing of a surface in passing so as to turn it up or roughen it; abrasion. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion clawing1398 razinga1400 scrattinga1400 scrapingc1440 scrape1483 raze1530 rasure1596 rasion1617 scrub1621 scrubbing1622 scrapelet1625 grazing1698 scratch1765 rake1869 1698 Mem. E. Ludlow I. 59 With the grazing of a Bullet upon the Face of one of the Servants. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 By the lucky grazing of a bullet on the Roll of his Stocking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). grazingadj.1 That grazes. a. Of an animal: That feeds on growing grass. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > herbivorous > that graze grazing1590 pasturing1606 granivorous1646 grass-eating1646 graminivorous1739 grass-feeding1741 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > snacking or grazing grazing1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F8v Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 620 The grazing ox and browzing goat. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxii. 49 A flower privily growing, Hid from grazing kine. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 632 He who..killed another man's slave or grazing quadruped. b. That keeps cattle at grass. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > putting animals to graze grazing1748 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > pasturing grazing1748 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 5 Great Part of the Lands..are held by the Farmers, Cowkeepers, and Grasing-Butchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). grazingadj.2 That grazes; that touches or rubs lightly in passing or moving; abrading. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > lightly along or near a surface brushing1596 skimminga1685 grazing?1692 shaving1895 ?1692 Ad Populum Phaleræ i. 65 More dangerous than grazing Ball that flew. 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 140 An oblique direction should be given to the loop-holes..to obtain a grazing fire. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 58 A grazing iron collar grinds my neck. 1872–6 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) When the trajectory is low and nearly parallel to the ground, and when the projectile strikes the object..at a less angle than 10°, this is termed grazing fire. 1881 Ld. Rayleigh in Nature 17 Nov. 64/2 By giving the light a more nearly grazing emergence. Derivatives ˈgrazingly adv. so as to graze. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adverb] > lightly over a surface skimmingly1847 grazingly1881 1881 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 710 The course of any comet may well chance to be so directed as to carry it straight towards the very centre of the sun, instead of passing grazingly by his orb as did the comet of 1843. 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