grass

  • 51Grass —    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… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 52grass — 1. n. marijuana. (Drugs and now widely known.) □ These kids manage to find this grass somewhere. □ Almost everybody knows that grass means marijuana. 2. n. lettuce; salad greens. (See also rabbit food.) □ I could use a little more grass in my… …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 53grass — 1. noun /ɡɹɑːs,ɡɹæs/ a) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. b) A lawn …

    Wiktionary

  • 54grass — [OE] Reflecting its status as the commonest and most obvious of plants (and, for agricultural communities, the most important), grass etymologically simply means ‘that which grows’. It comes from *grō , *gra , the prehistoric Germanic base which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 55grass on — v. (slang) (BE) (D; intr.) ( to inform on ) to grass on to (he grassed on them to the police) * * * (slang) (BE) (D; intr.) ( to inform on ) to grass on to (he grass oned on them to the police) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 56grass — græs /grɑːs n. green plant with flat leaves and jointed stems (used as a ground cover in lawns, fields, etc.); area covered with such plants; pasture; marijuana (Slang); police informer (British Slang) v. cover with grass; feed grass to… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 57grass up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms grass up : present tense I/you/we/they grass up he/she/it grasses up present participle grassing up past tense grassed up past participle grassed up British informal to tell someone in authority, especially… …

    English dictionary

  • 58grass*/*/*/ — [grɑːs] noun 1) [U] a very common plant with thin green leaves that covers the ground We should cut the grass before it starts raining.[/ex] Stephen was lying on the grass.[/ex] 2) [C] a particular type of grass tall flowering grasses[/ex] 3) [U] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 59grass — see while the grass grows, the steed starves the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 60grass — See: LET GRASS GROW UNDER ONE S FEET, SNAKE IN THE GRASS …

    Dictionary of American idioms

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