Found 2 items, similar to Forage.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: forage forage n 1: animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: eatage, pasture, pasturage, grass] 2: the act of searching for food and provisions [syn: foraging] v 1: collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge] 2: wander and feed; “The animals forage in the woods”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Forage Forage \For"age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr. forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.] 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. [1913 Webster] He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. --Shak. [1913 Webster] One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall. [1913 Webster] 2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Forage cap. See under Cap. Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow. [1913 Webster] Forage \For"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Foraging.] To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. [1913 Webster] His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Foraging ant (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. Foraging cap, a forage cap. Foraging party, a party sent out after forage. [1913 Webster] Forage \For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope. [1913 Webster]