[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. |
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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 (grās) Pronunciation Key
Any of a large family (Gramineae or Poaceae) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover. Wheat, maize, sugar cane, and bamboo are grasses. See more at leaf. |
