grass 
grass (gras, gräs)
noun
- any of various plants of the grass family that are usually used for food, fodder, or grazing and as lawns
- any grasslike plant of various families having similar uses
- ground covered with grass; pasture land or lawn
Etymology: from the visual resemblance to blades of grass
horizontal lines of clutter on a radarscope caused by electronic noise signals- ☆ Slang marijuana
Etymology: short for grasshopper, rhyming slang for copper
Brit., Slang an informer; stool pigeon
Etymology: ME gras < OE gærs, græs, akin to Ger gras < IE *ghrō-, grow
adjective
designating a family (Poaceae, order Cyperales) of monocotyledonous plants with long, narrow leaves, jointed stems, flowers in spikelets, and seedlike fruit, including wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, sugar cane, bamboo, sorghum, and bluegrass
transitive verb
- to put (an animal or animals) out to pasture or graze
- to grow grass over; cover with grass
- to lay (textiles, etc.) on the grass for bleaching by the sun
- Brit., Slang to inform against, as to the police
intransitive verb
- to become covered with grass
- Brit., Slang to act as an informer; inform (on)
go to grass
- to graze
- Chiefly Brit. to rest or retire
- ☆ go to the devil!
let the grass grow under one's feet
to waste one's time or neglect one's opportunities
put out to grass
Chiefly Brit. put out to pasture (see phrase under pasture)
Grass (gräs; E gräs)
Grass, Günter (Wilhelm) (gün′ter; E go̵̅o̅n′tər) 1927-; Ger. writer
grass
n.
Wild grasses include: Johnson grass, salt grass, blue grass, beach grass, bent grass, foxtail, sedge, rush, reed, buffalo grass, bulrush, sand-bur, couch grass, carpet grass, crab grass, crowfoot, deer grass, bunch grass, meadow grass, fescue, heath grass, joint grass, orchard grass, pampas grass, June grass, redtop, river grass, slough grass, ribbon grass, stink grass, sweet grass, tickle grass, brome, canary grass, cat-tail, bamboo, wild rice.
Cultivated grasses include: cane, millet, oats, wheat, barley, maize, rye, broomcorn, timothy, kaffir corn, Milo maize, bent grass, Bermuda grass, fescue, Kentucky blue grass, rice, sesame, sorghum.
Grassed area
grassland, meadow, lawn, garden (British), turf, green, fairway, sward, greensward, pasture, prairie, bottom, bottomland, hayfield; see also field 1, yard 1.*A drug
marijuana, Nicotanea glauca (Latin), hemp, cannabis, pot*, weed*, maryjane*, boo*; see also drug 2.
let the grass grow under one's feet*
Converse of object
- mow: Site on mown grass more than 1 acre in size.
- munch: We left pops tethered at the farm happily munching grass.
Adjective modifier
- ornamental: Ornamental grasses are an important part of the autumn garden, giving structure, form and texture.
- coarse: In my native Suffolk the cowslip meadows have long given way to the coarse grass used for silage.
- tall: On and on through the tall green grass, their plumes touched by the wind of death.
- lemon: Yogi Tea Green Jasmine A delicate blend of Green Jasmine and ginger, lemon grass and lemon verbena.
- lush: It's floored by a pasture of lush green grass that could almost be used as a tennis court.
- rough: I fancy the idea of natural-looking, possibly rather rough, grass at this end of the garden, near the trees.
Modifies a noun
- verge: Can someone explain please the Councils policy on parking on grass verges?
- root: The way we are working with people at a very grass roots level.
- cutting: Grass cutting Use the online form to report problems with grass cutting in your area.
- clipping: Use a woven mesh black polythene mulch, grass clippings, straw or bark applied to wet soil in early spring.
- snake: Look out too for grass snake soaking up the sun close to the footpath.
- pollen: The little devils collect the grass pollen for their honey, which is supposed to contain a fair dosage of THC.
Noun used with modifier
- marram: Damage has already been done to the area as marram grass has had little chance to seed naturally on the dunes.
- rye: The only species which would not be particularly welcome in a wildflower meadow was rye grass which can be very vigorous and competitive.
- couch: There is a grass like a bigger and tougher couch grass, growing around the trees.
- tussock: The breeding season starts with the male birds coming ashore in September to build their nests of stones among the tussock grass.
- moor: Sections of lagg remain, typically dominated by purple moor grass.
- canary: Fens around lough margins may have common reed or reed canary grass.
Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had beenwritten by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up themselves like green grass.
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
When you destroy a blade of grass You poison England at her roots; Remember no man's foot can pass Where evermore no green life shoots.
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till hishairsweregrown like eagles'feathers, and his nails like birds'claws.
A livelier emerald twinkles in the grass, A purer sapphire melts into the sea. 845
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
Autumn wind rises; white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south.
As for meöfor me, the grass grew longer, and more sorrowful, and the trees were surfaced like flesh, and girls were no longer to be treated lightly but were creatures of commanding sadness, and all journeys through the valley were now made alone, with passion in every bush, and the motions of wind and cloud and stars were suddenly for myself alone, and voices elected me of all men living and called me to deliver the world, and I groaned from solitude, blushed when I stumbled, loved strangers and bread and butter, and made long trips through the rain on my bicycle, stared wretchedly through lighted windows, grinned wryly to think how little I was known, and lived in a state of raging excitement.
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid metake love easy, asthe leavesgrow on thetree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid metake life easy, as thegrassgrows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves.
O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? Oh why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? See Chesterton 213:99.
As for the grass, it grewas scant as hair in leprosyöthin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.
The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms if [tariff protection] is taken away.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Aboutthelilting houseand happyasthegrasswasgreen.
Words spoken on the road are heard by snakes in the grass.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workö I am the grass; I cover all.
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-clouds thundrous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass isgreen, lakes damp, and mountains steep And,Wordsworth, both are thine.
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now There isn't grass to graze a cow Swarm over, Death!
Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill. Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
The last light has gone out of the world, except This moonlight lying on the grass like frost Beyond the brink of the tall elm's shadow.
Autumn is desolation in the plot Of a thousand acres, where these memories grow From the inexhaustible bodies that are not Dead, but feed the grass, row after rich row.
I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Please Walk on the Grass
My apprehensions come in crowds; I dread the rustling of the grass; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass.
He looks to me to be in heaven, that manwho sits across from you and listensnear you toyour soft speaking, your laughing lovely: that, I vow, makes the heart leap in my breast; for watching you a moment, speech fails me, my tongue is paralysed, at once a light fire runs beneath my skin, my eyes are blinded, and my ears drumming, the sweat pours down me, and Ishake all over, sallower than grass: I feel as if I'm not far off dying.
Give ear,O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear,O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
Latet anguis in herba. A snake lurks in the grass.
I lingered around them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not.
And whenThyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made oneöturn down an empty glass!
For seasons change, And order, truth, and beauty range, Adjust, attract, and fill: The grass the polyanthus cheques; And polished porphyry reflects, By the descending rill.
We were a people taut for war; the hills Were no harder, the thin grass Clothed them more warmly than the coarse Shirts our small bones.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Daisy and Lily, Lazy and silly, Walk by the shore of the wan grass sea,ö Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.
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