grass
    n 1: narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as
         pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
    2: German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
       [syn: Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass]
    3: a police informer who implicates many people [syn:
       supergrass, grass]
    4: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses
       or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage,
       grass]
    5: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green
       goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke,
       skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
    v 1: shoot down, of birds
    2: cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their
       property"
    3: spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
    4: cover with grass [syn: grass, grass over]
    5: feed with grass
    6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
       classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
       tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
       shop, snitch, stag]

Grass \Grass\ (gr[.a]s), n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s,
   g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., &
   Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E.
   green, grow. Cf. Graze.]
   1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food
      of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
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   2. (Bot.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem
      generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in
      pairs, and the seed single.
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   Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley,
         etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which
         are commonly called by the name of grass. The grasses
         form a numerous family of plants.
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   3. The season of fresh grass; spring. [Colloq.]
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            Two years old next grass.             --Latham.
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   4. Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
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            Surely the people is grass.           --Is. xl. 7.
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   5. Marijuana. [Slang]
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   Note: The following list includes most of the grasses of the
         United States of special interest, except cereals. Many
         of these terms will be found with definitions in the
         Vocabulary. See Illustrations in Appendix.

Grass \Grass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Grassing.]
   1. To cover with grass or with turf.
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   2. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
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   3. To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a
      fish. [Colloq.]
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Grass \Grass\, v. i.
   To produce grass. [R.] --Tusser.
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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).