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noun

Forage n.

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. "He (the lion) from forage will incline to play." "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine." "Mawhood completed his forage unmolested."

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

Forage cap. See under Cap.

Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.

verb

Forage v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

Forage v. i. (past & past part. foraged; pres. part. 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. "His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility."

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.

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Etymology of 'Forage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forage" Quotes from Famous Books

... would be a child in the hands of the commonest man he meets. Brilliant with thanks in signs, Skepsey drew from his friend a course of instruction in French names, for our necessities on a line of march. The roads to Great Britain's metropolis, and the supplies of forage and provision at every stage of a march on London, are marked in the military offices of these people; and that, with their barking Journals, is a piece of knowledge to justify a belligerent return for it. Only we pray to be ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... living from the land, and his life partook more and more of the routine of Canadian farmers. He was, however, much more successful than the majority of them, due to his energy and skill. His first decided start was due to the existence of that swamp whose discovery filled him with dismay. The forage he got off it enabled him to start keeping stock long before he otherwise could have done. In the fall of 1826 he bought a cow and a couple of two-year old heifers, and the following spring there was enough milk to enable the mistress to make ...

— The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 • Gordon Sellar

... uncultivated country lying around it. [FN374] About noontide he entered Bilbays-city, [FN375] where he dismounted and stayed awhile to rest himself and his mule and ate some of his victual. He bought at Bilbays all he wanted for himself and forage for his mule and then fared on the way of the waste. Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa'adiyah [FN376] where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate; then he spread his strip of silk ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... seemed to have no other employment upon earth than to wait upon us, and accordingly backwards and forwards, and up and down stairs they came and they went, till by mid-day they had permanently established, as ants do when they forage, two counter-lines of communication between us and the street, each dealer further imitating the ant community, in stopping for a moment en passant, to touch antennae, and to exchange intelligences ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various

... surroundings from choice, sometimes as many as two thousand in a single block. They do not willingly pay a large percentage of their earnings in rent for a tenement that breeds fever and tuberculosis. They do not feed their babies on impure milk and permit their children to forage among the garbage cans because they care nothing for their young. They do not shiver without heat or lose vitality for lack of food until they have struggled for a comfortable existence to the point of exhaustion. Misery is here as it is in the Old World cities, and it leads to ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

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