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Pasturable
Pasturable Pas"tur*a*ble, a. Fit for pasture.
Pasturage
Pasturage Pas"tur*age, n. [OF. pasturage, F. p[^a]turage. See Pasture.] 1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Thaumastura cora
Shaft Shaft, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. ????, ????, a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. Scape, Scepter, Shave.] 1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. --Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. --Ascham. 2. The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. --Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. --V. Knox. 3. That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. Specifically: (a) (Bot.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. (b) (Zo["o]l.) The stem or midrib of a feather. See Illust. of Feather. (c) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. (d) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold . . . his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. --Ex. xxv. 31. (e) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. (f) A pole, especially a Maypole. [Obs.] --Stow. (g) (Arch.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. [Obs. or R.] --Gwilt. (h) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to thee. --Emerson. (i) (Weaving) A rod at the end of a heddle. (j) (Mach.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. See Illust. of Countershaft. 4. (Zo["o]l.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird. 5. [Cf. G. schacht.] (Mining) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. 6. A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. 7. The chamber of a blast furnace. Line shaft (Mach.), a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; -- called also line, or main line. Shaft alley (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft. Shaft furnace (Metal.), a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom.

Meaning of Astura from wikipedia

- Astura could refer to: Torre Astura, a former island of Lazio, Italy, containing Roman villas Astura River [it], Lazio, Italy Esla River, a river of Spain...
- The Lancia Astura is a p****enger car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Lancia between 1931 and 1939. Lancia replaced the Lambda model with two...
- Torre Astura, formerly an island called by the ancients merely Astura (Gr****: Ἄστυρα), is now a peninsula in the comune of Nettuno, on the coast of Latium...
- pioneer of Nepali folk songs and Tamang Selo. Her song "Chura ta Hoina Astura" (Nepali: चुरा त होइन अस्तुरा) is said to be the first Tamang Selo ever...
- (Guenée, 1854) Synonyms Astura punctiferalis Guenée, 1854 Deiopeia detracta Walker, 1859 Botys nicippealis Walker, 1859 Astura guttatalis Walker, 1866...
- Family: Crambidae Genus: Polygrammodes Species: P. fluminalis Binomial name Polygrammodes fluminalis (Butler, 1883) Synonyms Astura fluminalis Butler, 1883...
- Polygrammodes maculiferalis (Dyar, 1910) Synonyms Dichocrocopsis maculiferalis Dyar, 1910 Astura nigripunctalis Dognin, 1910 Astura nigropunctalis Munroe, 1956...
- Lepidoptera Family: Crambidae Genus: Conogethes Species: C. clioalis Binomial name Conogethes clioalis (Walker, 1859) Synonyms Astura clioalis Walker, 1859...
- eleuata Fabricius, 1777 Polygrammodes elevata Astura elevalis Guenée, 1854 Astura elevata Munroe, 1995 Astura elevata var. grandimacula Dognin, 1912...
- Crambidae Genus: Dichocrocis Species: D. festivalis Binomial name Dichocrocis festivalis (C. Swinhoe, 1886) Synonyms Astura festivalis C. Swinhoe, 1886...