fescue Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
    fescue grass; Festuca elatior; meadow fescue.

WordNet

Fes"cue noun
Etymology
OE. festu, OF. festu, F. fétu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.
Definitions
  1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. "Pedantic fescue.' Sterne.
    To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. Milton.
  2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. Obs. Chapman.
  3. The style of a dial. Obs.
  4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
Fes"cue intransitive verb & transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fescued ; present participle & verbal noun Fescuing
Definitions
  1. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton.

Webster 1913