Graze , n.
1. The act
of grazing; the cropping of grass. [Colloq.]
Turning him out for a graze on the common.
T. Hughes. 2. A light touch; a slight scratch.
Graze , v. i. 1. To
eat grass; to feed on
growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
2. To yield grass for grazing.
The ground
continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose.
Bacon. 3. To touch something lightly in passing.
Graze (grāz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grazed (grāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Grazing.]
[OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. græs grass. See Grass.] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
A field or two
to graze his cows.
Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
Pope. 3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep.
Shak. 4. To rub or touch
lightly the surface of (a
thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
Hear it pronounced