Grass

Definition: Grass

Grass

Noun

1. Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay.

2. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

3. German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927).

4. Animal food for browsing or grazing.

5. A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect.

Verb

1. Shoot down, of birds.

2. Cover with grass, as of a piece of land.

3. Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach.

4. Cover with grass.

5. Feed with grass.

6. Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Grass \Grass\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Grassed; Grassing.]. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Grass

Intemperance

Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed.

Sharpness

Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle.

Vegetable

Plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.

Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

Don't go into the long grass! (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you follow me. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

No, I pass on grass always (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

When we die our bodys become the grass and the antelope eat the grass (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts)

Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson)

Like the first dewfall, on the first grass (Morning Has Broken; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

It landed foul on the grass ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

But I smoke him like grass, just like Cheech and Chong (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Where the grass is green (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

You see the snakes in the grass and you wait on their ass (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves. (references; author: unknown)

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass. (references; author: unknown)

Happy as the Grass Was Green (1973)

Grass Widow's Report (1971)

Keep Off My Grass! (1971)

No Blade of Grass (1970)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Grazing in the Grass (Instrumental) (performing artist: Hugh Masekela)

Grazing in the Grass (performing artist: The Friends of Distinction)

Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You (performing artist: Wilson Pickett)

Whispering Grass (performing artist: Windsor Davies & Don Estelle)

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References

• Blue Grass Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Grass Holding AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Vegetable Materials Used Primarily in Brooms and Brushes Including Broomcorn, Piassava, Couch Grass, and Istle: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• The Cadence of Grass (reference)

• The Best of Vietnamese & Thai Cooking: Favorite Recipes from Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafe (reference)

• Green Calder Grass (reference)

• Cooking with grass; an arresting collection of pot dishes (reference)

• Big Book of Blue Grass (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Grass Roots (reference)

• Grass Roots Contact Management - Cd-rom (reference)

• Stockman Grass Farmer (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Grass (reference)

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Music

• Christmas Grass (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker CST2000 12-volt Cordless Grass Hog 12" Trimmer/Edger with Auto Feed Spool (AFS) (reference)

• American Lawn Mower Company 1ST-SP Reel Mower Grass Catcher (reference)

• Corona Clipper GS-6750 Professional Grass Shears (reference)

• Black & Decker RD-300 Grass Trimmer Replacement Disc (reference)

• Grass Gator YJT1 Yellow Jacket & Wasp Trap (reference)

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Spotted gull chick hiding in the grass. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

A fox in the scrub grass of an Aleutian Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A grass thatch hut. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sea grass and marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Life on the mudflats and in the marsh grass of Helena Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The auger that was used to plant the marsh grass plugs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Planting marsh grass. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cordgrass plant nearly covered at high tide. Note the periwinkle snail, Littorina irrorata, that has climbed high on the grass blade and avoided being covered by the tide. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A stand of Spartina marsh grass at Potter Cove, Prudence Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Large hail collects on streets and grass during severe thunderstorm. Larger stones appear to be nearly 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent of any body. (Second Treatise of Government)

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The air was clear and scented, the breeze flitted lightly through the tall grass around his cave, the birds were chirruping at each other, the butterflies were flitting about prettily, and the whole of nature seemed to be conspiring to be as pleasant as it possibly could

There was a quivering in the grass which seemed like the departure of souls

Aubrey and Stephen had a common milkman and often they drove out in the milkcar to Carrickmines where the cows were at grass.

He came over the grass leaving a beaten trail behind him, and the hill, which was the highway embankment, reared up ahead of him.

Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass plot to divert myself while she walked at some distance with her governess

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground

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Health

Walk in the center of trails to avoid overgrown grass and brush. (references)

This might include grass, herbs, greens, or berries gathered from fields. (references)

Moreover, FDA is requiring that eight grass and pollen extracts be standardized. (references)

Business

But it is powered gardening equipment like hedge trimmers and grass strimmers that are most in demand - often bought as gifts. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

The focus is on systems which, instead of wood, work with grass or other readily available plants. (references)

Pakistan

In addition, there is great demand and import of hybrid seeds of corn, sunflower, fodder and grass. (references)

China

China will likely import large amounts of grass seed as it returns more farmland to grassland and forest. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

On December 7, 16-year-old Jitendra Tharu of Deudhakala, Bardiya District, was shot and killed by the RNA while cutting grass in the jungle. (references)

Political Economy

Botswana

However, the BCP was never able to develop grass roots support, which allowed the BNF to regain its role as official opposition in Parliament following the general elections. (references)

Political Rights

Brunei

The delegates were elected from among individual villagers, and the Government described the Assembly as "a grass roots level political system." However, the Sultan appoints all the council's advisers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The grass of the well

Expressions using "grass": african love grass ♦ ague grass ♦ Aleppa grass ♦ Aleppo grass ♦ Alfa grass ♦ alkali grass ♦ alligator grass ♦ american star grass ♦ Angola grass ♦ arrow grass ♦ at grass ♦ at grass roots level ♦ australian grass tree ♦ australian reed grass ♦ Bahama grass ♦ Bahia grass ♦ barley grass ♦ barn grass ♦ barnyard grass ♦ basket for bearing of grass ♦ bay grass ♦ be out at grass ♦ Beach grass ♦ bear grass ♦ Beard grass ♦ bent grass ♦ bermuda grass ♦ birdseed grass ♦ Black grass ♦ blade of grass ♦ blow grass ♦ blue Grass ♦ Bottle grass ♦ Bottom grass ♦ bring ore to grass ♦ bristle grass ♦ Brome grass ♦ broom beard grass ♦ broom grass ♦ buffalo grass ♦ buffel grass ♦ Bunch grass ♦ bur grass ♦ Canary grass ♦ carpet grass ♦ cereal grass ♦ China grass ♦ cloud grass ♦ common cotton grass ♦ common scurvy grass ♦ cord grass ♦ cotton grass ♦ couch grass ♦ Crab grass ♦ creeping soft grass ♦ creeping windmill grass ♦ crested wheat grass ♦ crowfoot grass ♦ Cuba grass ♦ curly grass ♦ curly grass fern ♦ cut grass ♦ dallis grass ♦ deer grass ♦ devil grass ♦ Dog grass ♦ dog's grass ♦ Doob grass ♦ doub grass ♦ dry grass ♦ egyptian grass ♦ English grass ♦ esparto grass ♦ european dune grass ♦ evergreen grass ♦ fairway crested wheat grass ♦ Feather grass ♦ feather reed grass ♦ feathertop grass ♦ fescue grass ♦ finger grass ♦ fiorin grass ♦ Floating manna grass ♦ Flyaway grass ♦ fountain grass ♦ foxtail grass ♦ fringed grass of Parnassus ♦ Gama grass ♦ giant star grass ♦ ginger grass oil ♦ go to grass ♦ goat grass ♦ goose grass ♦ grama grass ♦ gramma grass ♦ Grass bass ♦ grass bird ♦ grass blade ♦ grass bleach ♦ grass clearing ♦ Grass cloth. Additional references.

Beginning with "grass": grass-blade, grass-blades, grass-box, grass-brushing, grass-burning, Grass-cloth plant, grass-court, grass-covered, grass-cutter, grass-cutters, grass-cutting, grass-eater, grass-eaters, grass-eating, grass-fed, grass-feeding, grass-germination, grass-grain-grass, grass-green, Grass-grown, grass-heads, grass-hoppers, grass-kept, grass-leaved golden aster, grass-let, grass-letting, grass-ley, grass-light, grass-like, grass-mesh, grass-mower, grass-of-Parnassus, grass-packed, grass-pollen, grass-roofed, grass-root, grass-rooters, grass-roots, grass-rosette, grass-seed, grass-seeded, grass-skirted, grass-smoking, grass-snake, grass-stained, grass-stems, grass-studded, grass-tempered, grass-topped, grass-track, grass-tufty, grass-verge, grass-verged, grass-widowed, grass-widowers, grass-work, grass-wren.

Ending with "grass": rye-grass.

Containing "grass": arrow-grass family, Blue-grass State.

Afrikaans

gras (herb). (various references)

Albanian

bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, herb, herbage, local, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, pub, saloon). (various references)

Arabic 

عشب (plants), ‏كلأ (herbage, pasture), ‏نجيل (herbage, quitch), ‏حشيش (hay), ‏عشب (herb, pasture, weed), ‏خضر (go green), ‏رعى (cherish, cultivate, foster, groom, heed, inculcate, nurse, nurture, pasture, patronize, see to, shepherd, sponsor, take care of, tend). (various references)

Asturian

herba. (various references)

Aymara

qora. (various references)

Basque

belar. (various references)

Bemba

ilunkoto. (various references)

Blackfoot

saissksiimoko. (various references)