He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
Ps. xxiii. 2.
So graze as you find pasture.
Shak.
Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.]
To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for;
as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Pas"ture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.
Pas"ture*less, a. Destitute of pasture. Milton.
Pas"tur*er (?), n. One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See
Agister.
Pas"ty (?), a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty
complexion." G. Eliot.
Pas"ty, n.; pl. Pasties (#). [OF. pastÈ, F. p‚tÈ. See Paste, and cf.
Patty.] A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust
made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
"If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens.
A large pasty baked in a pewter platter.
Sir W. Scott.
Pat (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Patting.] [Cf.
G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike, tap.] To strike gently with
the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.
Pope.
Pat, n. 1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a
tap.