Noah Webster
Graze
GRAZE, verb transitive [Latin rado, rasi, or rodo, rosi.]
1. To rub or touch lightly in passing; to brush lightly in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall or the earth.
2. To feed or supply cattle with grass; to furnish pasture for; as, the farmer grazes large herds of cattle.
3. To feed on; to eat from the ground, as growing herbage.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
4. To tend grazing cattle; as, Jacob grazed Laban's sheep.
GRAZE, verb intransitive To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
1. To supply grass; as, the ground will not graze well.
2. To move on devouring.