graze Copy link Outline I. To pastureII. To touch lightly1. stringo, nxi, ctum, 3 (chiefly poet. in this sense)2. rādo, rāsi, rāsum, 3 (like preced. chiefly poet.) • graze: I. To pasture: pascor, pastus, 3 (also in act.): the herds g. over the pastures, pascuntur armenta per herbas, Virg.: v. to feed (B., 2). II. To touch lightly: 1. stringo, nxi, ctum, 3 (chiefly poet. in this sense): the bird g.d the surface of the waves, stringebat summas ales undas, Ov. Met. 11, 733: the oar-blade g.s the rocks, s. palmula cautes, Virg. Aen. 5, 163: to g. the goals with the inner wheel, s. metas interiore rota, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 12. Simly. the comps. destringo, Ov.; praestringo (just to g., or skim), Suet.: Amm.; perstringo, Virg. (but perstringo usu. denotes more violent contact: comp. Cic. Ph. 2, 40, 102, vomere portam Capuae perstrinxisti, i. e. nearly drove it against the gate). 2. rādo, rāsi, rāsum, 3 (like preced. chiefly poet.): to g. the goal (fig.), metam r., Ov. Am. 3, 15, 2.