graze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
2. v. Informal To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal.
3. v. Informal To eat snacks throughout the day in place of full meals.
4. v. To feed on (herbage) in a field or on pastureland.
5. v. To feed on the herbage of (a piece of land).
6. v. To afford herbage for the feeding of: This field will graze 30 head of cattle.
7. v. To put (livestock) out to feed.
8. v. To tend (feeding livestock) in a pasture.
9. v. To touch lightly in passing; brush. See Synonyms at brush¹.
10. v. To scrape or scratch slightly; abrade.
11. v. To scrape or touch something lightly in passing.
12. n. The act of brushing or scraping along a surface.
13. n. A minor scratch or abrasion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To eat grass; feed on growing herbage.
2. To supply grass.
3. To spread and devour, as fire.
4. To feed or supply with growing grass; furnish pasture for.
5. To feed on; eat growing herbage from.
6. To tend while grazing, as cattle.
7. n. The act of grazing or feeding on grass.
8. To touch or rub lightly in passing; brush lightly the surface of: as, the bullet grazed his cheek; the ship grazed the rocks.
9. To abrade; scrape the skin from.
10. To act with a slight rubbing or abrading motion; give a light touch in moving or passing.
11. n. The act of grazing or slightly abrading; a slight stroke or scratch in passing.
12. n. In gunnery, the point where a shot strikes the ground or water and rebounds.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2. n. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3. v. transitive To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
4. v. intransitive To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
5. v. transitive To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
6. v. transitive To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
7. v. transitive To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
2. v. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
3. v. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
4. v. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
5. v. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
6. v. To yield grass for grazing.
7. v. To touch something lightly in passing.
8. n. colloq. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
9. n. A light touch; a slight scratch.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. feed as in a meadow or pasture
2. n. a superficial abrasion
3. v. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
4. v. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
5. n. the act of grazing
6. v. scrape gently
7. v. eat lightly, try different dishes