[gras, grahs] 
| 1. | any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family. |
| 2. | such plants collectively, as when cultivated in lawns or used as pasture for grazing animals or cut and dried as hay. |
| 3. | the grass-covered ground. |
| 4. | pasture: Half the farm is grass. |
| 5. | Slang. marijuana. |
| 6. | grasses, stalks or sprays of grass: filled with dried grasses. |
| 7. | the season of the new growth of grass. |
| 8. | to cover with grass or turf. |
| 9. | to feed with growing grass; pasture. |
| 10. | to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching. |
| 11. | to feed on growing grass; graze. |
| 12. | to produce grass; become covered with grass. |
| 13. | go to grass, to retire from one's occupation or profession: Many executives lack a sense of purpose after they have gone to grass. |
| 14. | let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action, progress, etc.; become slack in one's efforts. |
[grahs; Ger. grahs] Gün⋅ter (Wil⋅helm) [goo n-ter wil-helm; Ger. gyn-tuhr vil-helm] , born 1927, German novelist, poet, and playwright. |
| grass (grās) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English gras, from Old English græs; see ghrē- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Grass (gräs) German writer whose novels, notably The Tin Drum (1959) and Dog Years (1963), concern the political and social climate of Germany during and after World War II. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for literature. |
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"[G]rasse wydowes ... be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre and neuer take but one at onys." [More, 1528]
Grass
(1.) Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Ps. 104:14). As the herbage rapidly fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life (Isa. 40:6, 7; Ps. 90:5). In Num. 11:5 this word is rendered "leeks." (2.) Heb. deshe', green grass (Gen. 1:11, 12; Isa. 66:14; Deut. 32:2). "The sickly and forced blades of grass which spring up on the flat plastered roofs of houses in the East are used as an emblem of speedy destruction, because they are small and weak, and because, under the scorching rays of the sun, they soon wither away" (2 Kings 19:26; Ps. 129:6; Isa. 37:27). The dry stalks of grass were often used as fuel for the oven (Matt. 6:30; 13:30; Luke 12:28).
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In addition to the idioms beginning with grass, also see don't let the grass grow under one's feet; put out to grass; snake in the grass.
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