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forage 音标拼音: [f'ɔrɪdʒ] n. 粮草,饲料,搜寻粮草
vt. 喂,掠夺,搜寻
vi. 搜寻粮草,掠夺 粮草,饲料,搜寻粮草喂,掠夺,搜寻搜寻粮草,掠夺 forage n 1: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [ synonym: { eatage}, { forage}, { pasture}, { pasturage}, { grass}] 2: the act of searching for food and provisions [ synonym: { foraging}, { forage}] v 1: collect or look around for ( food) [ synonym: { scrounge}, { forage}] 2: wander and feed; " The animals forage in the woods" 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} ( Zool.), 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\ (?; 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. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 116 Moby Thesaurus words for " forage": barley, beat, beat the bushes, bird seed, board, bran, bread, bunker, burrow, cat food, cater, chicken feed, chop, coal, comb, corn, delve, depredate, despoil, dig, dine, dog food, domiciliary visit, dragnet, eatage, ensilage, exploration, explore, feed, fill up, fleece, fodder, foray, freeboot, frisk, fuel, gas, gas up, go through, grain, grass, gratify, graze, gut, hay, house- search, hunt, hunting, look around, look round, look through, loot, maraud, mash, meal, meat, mess, nose around, oats, oil, pasturage, pasture, perquisition, pet food, pillage, plunder, poke, poke around, posse, prey on, probe, provender, provision, pry, purvey, quest, raid, ransack, ransacking, ravage, raven, ravish, regale, reive, research, rifle, root, rummage, sack, satisfy, scratch, scratch feed, search, search party, search through, search warrant, search- and- destroy operation, searching, sell, silage, slops, smell around, spoil, spoliate, stalk, stalking, still hunt, straw, sustain, sweep, swill, top off, turning over, victual, wheat, wine and dine
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