单词 | unpastured |
释义 | unpasturedadj. 1. Not provided with or put out to pasture; unfed. Now rare.In quot. 1910 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > fed > pastured > not pastured unpastured1548 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > pasturing > pastured > not unpastured1548 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Impastus, vnfed, vnpastured, hungry. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Vnpastured, ongeweydt. a1800 W. Cowper tr. J. Milton Lat. & Ital. Poems (1808) 79 Go, go, my lambs, unpastur'd as ye are. 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxvii. 16 Why didst thou..Dare the unpastured dragon in his den? 1853 Pennsylvania State Rep. 19 302 To enable a few unpastured cows to pick up a scanty subsistence in waste fields and lanes. 1910 E. A. Abbott Son of Man ii. 145 Sheep that in many cases belonged, by right, to the true flock of Israel, but unpastured, untended, and worried by ‘the wolf’. 1965 Port Angeles (Washington) Evening News 3 Dec. 10/5 An unpastured bull is roaming around the area chasing children. 2. Not used as pasture; ungrazed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > not unpastured1778 1778 D. Loch Ess. Trade Scotl. I. i. 46 By its being left unpastured, the field will be doubly advantaged by its covering in winter. 1791 A. Ker Rep. State of Sheep Farming 26 They have always the low part of their ground preserved unpastured during the summer, to which they bring the sheep down from the hills in the autumn. 1822 R. Richardson Trav. Mediterranean II. 452 Long unpastured grass apparently for want of cattle. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 3 Wandering..o'er the wide unpastured sea. 1936 J. N. Darling et al. Game Managem. on Farm (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1759) 20 The natural growth of ground vegetation in unpastured woodland makes game food and cover. 2001 P. L. Marks & S. Gardescu in D. Egan & E. A. Howell Hist. Ecol. Handbk. vii. 192 Any of the ‘pasture’ species can occasionally be found in unpastured or nonagricultural sites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1548 |
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