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Toft
A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Tasting
The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Ing
A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.
Pampas
Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagoni..
Verdurous
Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
Regale
To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.
Wheat
A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
Silage
Short for Ensilage.
Province
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
Pasturage
Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
Ensilage
The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as th..
Nomad
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
Dieting
of Diet
Dine
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Regale
A prerogative of royalty.
Vegetarianism
The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Regalement
The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.
Woodland
Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
Soil
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them..
Llano
An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
Upland
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, sw..
Lea
A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
Savanna
A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Grazier
One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market.
Browse
The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
Pasturing
of Pasture
Dining
of Dine
Barnyard
A yard belonging to a barn.
Plantation
The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
Hay
A hedge.
Croft
A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
Meal
A part; a fragment; a portion.
Location
The act or process of locating.
Breachy
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
Steppe
One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
Park
A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
Hunger
An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
Plain
To lament; to bewail; to complain.
Fodder
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Oats
of Oat
Provender
Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.
Moor
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
Gluttony
Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
Provision
The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
Prairie
An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, betw..
Mash
A mesh.
Bran
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
Countryside
A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
Feed
of Fee
Barley
A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
Grass
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Corn
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
Mess
Mass; church service.
Forage
The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
Gratify
To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
Meadow
A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Satisfy
In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what i..
Grain
See Groan.
Nibbling
of Nibble
Grazing
of Graze
Graze
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Licking
of Lick
Devouring
of Devour
Appetite
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
Ingestion
The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
Nutrition
In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
Munching
of Munch
Tasting
of Taste
Swill
To wash; to drench.
Consumption
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Straw
To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
Chewing
of Chew
Appurtenance
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to ..
Sustain
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
Crop
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Mushroom
An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bear..
Pasture
Food; nourishment.
Grange
A building for storing grain; a granary.
Fallow
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Farm
The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Province
A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
Station
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
Hacienda
A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment ..
Homestead
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
Toft
A knoll or hill.
Board
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Pen
A feather.
Ranch
To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
Orchard
A garden.
Chop
To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
Demesne
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Enclosure
Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Field
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Range
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Scratch
To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or t..
