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Definition of Forage

1. Noun. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.

2. Verb. Collect or look around for (food). "The men forage for animals in the area"

3. Noun. The act of searching for food and provisions.

4. Verb. Wander and feed. "The animals forage"; "The animals forage in the woods"

Definition of Forage

1. n. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

2. v. i. 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.

3. v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

Definition of Forage

1. Noun. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. ¹

2. Noun. An act or instance of foraging. (...)” ¹

3. Verb. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. ¹

4. Verb. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. ¹

5. Verb. To rummage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forage

1. to search about [v -AGED, -AGING, -AGES]

Medical Definition of Forage

1. 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. "He [the lion] from forage will incline to play." (Shak) "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine." (Milton) "Mawhood completed his forage unmolested." (Marshall) 2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Forage cap. See Cap. Forage master, a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Origin: 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. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, especially. Forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. "His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. Foraging ant, 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. Origin: Foraged; Foraging. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Forage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of Silviculture: With Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"Injury to forage. — Fires burn readily in dry grass and other plants of forage value. In some cases fire may be of temporary value in burning off a mat of ..."

2. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by United States Continental Congress, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John Clement Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, Kenneth E. Harris, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Steven D. Tilley (1907)
"That the duty of the commissary of forage shall be to purchase such quantities ... That all forage purchased by any commissary of forage, and delivered into ..."

3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1913)
"A NEW forage PLANT Desmodium Hirtum, Recently Introduced, Promises to be of Value Both as Cover Crop and to Provide Fodder AD. ..."

4. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"forage Crops forage is herbage food, whether green or cured. The forage crops are grasses (whether utilized in meadows, pastures, or otherwise), ..."

5. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"As chairman of your committee on breeding forage plants, I wish, to explain that ... The more intense nursery method of breeding forage crops has not been ..."

6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1904)
"Sir, The difficulties, not to say impossibilities of obtaining forage for ... The county of West Chester, although fertile in forage, yet from the length of ..."

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