From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grass \Grass\ (gr[.a]s), n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s,
g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., &
Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E.
green, grow. Cf. Graze.]
1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food
of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
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2. (Bot.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem
generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in
pairs, and the seed single.
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Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley,
etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which
are commonly called by the name of grass. The grasses
form a numerous family of plants.
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3. The season of fresh grass; spring. [Colloq.]
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Two years old next grass. --Latham.
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4. Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
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Surely the people is grass. --Is. xl. 7.
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5. Marijuana. [Slang]
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Note: The following list includes most of the grasses of the
United States of special interest, except cereals. Many
of these terms will be found with definitions in the
Vocabulary. See Illustrations in Appendix.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grass \Grass\, v. i.
To produce grass. [R.] --Tusser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grass \Grass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Grassing.]
1. To cover with grass or with turf.
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2. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
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3. To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a
fish. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grass
n 1: narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as
pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
2: German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
[syn: Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass]
3: a police informer who implicates many people [syn:
supergrass, grass]
4: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses
or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage,
grass]
5: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, {green
goddess}, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke,
skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
v 1: shoot down, of birds
2: cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their
property"
3: spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
4: cover with grass [syn: grass, grass over]
5: feed with grass
6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
shop, snitch, stag]