FORAGE
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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.
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His most mighty father on a hill
Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility.
Shak.
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Foraging ant (Zo&ö;l.), 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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For"age (?), v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. Pope.
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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.
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He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
Shak.
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One way a band select from forage drives
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Milton.
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Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
Marshall.
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2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Dryden.
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Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.
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