Grazing

grazing
    n 1: the act of grazing [syn: {graze}, {grazing}]
    2: the act of brushing against while passing [syn: {grazing},
       {shaving}, {skimming}]
    

Graze \Graze\ (gr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grazed}
   (gr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Grazing}.] [OE. grasen, AS.
   grasian, fr. gr[ae]s grass. See {Grass}.]
   1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to
      furnish pasture for.
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            A field or two to graze his cows.     --Swift.
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   2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a
      pasture); to browse.
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            The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
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            When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. --Shak.
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   4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in
      passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
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Grazing \Graz"ing\, n.
   1. The act of one who, or that which, grazes.
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   2. A pasture; growing grass.
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138 Moby Thesaurus words for "grazing":
      ablation, abrasion, abrasive, animal husbandry, animal rearing,
      appetite, attrition, bee culture, beekeeping, breeding, brushing,
      buffing, burnishing, campo, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority,
      carnivorousness, cattle-ranching, chafe, chafing, chewing,
      chicken-farming, consumption, contacting, contingent, cropping,
      dairy-farming, deglutition, detrition, devouring, devourment,
      dieting, dining, dressage, dressing, eating, epulation, erasure,
      erosion, feasting, feeding, filing, fretting, galling, glancing,
      gluttony, gnotobiotics, gobbling, grass, grass veld, grassland,
      grinding, haugh, haughland, herbivorism, herbivority,
      herbivorousness, herding, horse training, horsemanship, hunger,
      impingent, impinging, in contact, ingestion, lea, licking,
      limation, llano, manducation, mastication, mead, meadow,
      meadow land, meeting, messing, mink-ranching, munching, nibbling,
      nudging, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy,
      osculatory, pampa, pampas, pantophagy, park, pasturage, pasture,
      pasture land, pasturing, pecking, pig-keeping, polishing, prairie,
      range, rasping, regalement, relishing, rubbing, rubbing away,
      rumination, sandblasting, sanding, savanna, savoring, scouring,
      scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff,
      sheepherding, shining, smoothing, steppe, steppeland,
      stock raising, stockbreeding, swale, tangent, tangential, tasting,
      thremmatology, touching, vega, vegetarianism, veld, wear,
      wearing away, wolfing, zootechnics, zootechny