Definition of "graze" []

• To feed on growing grasses and herbage. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To eat snacks throughout the day in place of full meals. (verb-intransitive)
• To feed on (herbage) in a field or on pastureland. (verb-transitive)
• To feed on the herbage of (a piece of land). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Could neither graze nor pierce] [T: of change] To _graze_ is not merely to touch superficially, but to strike not directly, not so as to bury the body of the thing striking in the matter struck."
• "Afterall, one definition of 'graze' is "to feed on herbage in a field"."
• "I wouldn't let Palin graze with my goats, I wish she would use that bridge she built going nowhere"