(n.) Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.
(n.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
(2) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
(3) Multiple regression analysis showed that 60 per cent of variation in D viviparus third stage larvae recovery from herbage was accounted for by known variables.
(4) Reduced trichostrongylid infection on herbage and in calves was obtained when first-season calves, grazing a common area of pasture, received low-dosage phenothiazine (PTZ) in two successive years.
(5) Partial correlations between disappearance of N, K, Ca, Mg and S after the 48-h incubation and herbage concentration were significant.
(6) Extrusa and hand-clipped herbage samples were similar (P greater than .10) in OMD during May and September, but OMD of extrusa was greater (P less than .05) during June, July and August compared to clipped samples.
(7) From the results of the herbage analysis and the worm burdens in parasite naive tracer calves introduced at the end of 18 months, it was clear that considerable numbers of infective larvae of Ostertagia ostertagi and Cooperia oncophora survived for at least 18 months on pastures not grazed at all.
(8) There was no significant difference in tryptophan content between herbage from two normal pastures and from three pastures in which outbreaks of fog fever occurred.
(9) Few infective larvae were recovered from the soil although appreciable numbers of larvae were recovered from the herbage.
(10) Contaminated herbage was eaten most when attractive herbage became scarce.
(11) Larvae were extracted by washing and sedimentation and counts expressed as number of larvae per kg dry herbage.
(12) The profile of the graph of larval availability in herbage paralleled those for temperature and rainfall, suggesting that larval peaks occurred when the temperature and availability of moisture were optimal.
(13) The effect of supplements on intake, digestibility, N retention, ADG and blood and body composition of growing lambs fed cut herbage or grazing KY 31 tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
(14) The release of low molecular weight 137Cs species after in vitro incubation with rumen liquid for 4-8 h was 75-85% for grass, herbage and fungi, 30% for lichen and 10% for litter.
(15) A dramatic rise in L3 population size occurred on herbage near pats, 17-25 days after pat deposition.
(16) The number of infective O. ostertagi larvae in inoculated cow pats was reduced by 42% and herbage larval infectivity around them by 50-71% as compared with the corresponding parameters in control pats and surrounding herbage.
(17) Diets of fresh kale (Brassica oleracea) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne)-clover (Trifolium repens) herbage were fed to growing sheep in three experiments.
(18) The greatest numbers of larvae were recovered from herbage in August and September.
(19) This experiment indicates that a concentration of 2000 A. oligospora conidia per gram faeces results in a significant lowering of the herbage larval infectivity during the grazing season in Denmark.
(20) Numbers of infective C. oncophora larvae isolated from the pats as well as from the surrounding herbage were subject to an approximately ten-fold reduction as compared with numbers in fungus-free pats and herbage surrounding these.
Surcharge
Definition:
(v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
(v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
(v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
(n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
(n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wrote to Uber, which stated that it adds a 2.6 surcharge on days when there is likely to be a lot of demand – it was Ladies’ Day.
(2) The local council is calling on food and drink shops to impose a 10p surcharge on all sugary soft beverages, with the proceeds to be put into a children’s health and food education trust.
(3) Not only did they sit on their hands when they knew about the extra surcharge for the UK, we now learn they also underestimated the scale of the UK’s contribution in 2013.
(4) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(5) Energy firms would be required to impose the same surcharge for direct debit.
(6) Hatoyama will have to reconcile his bold initiative with election pledges to eliminate road tolls and petrol surcharges.
(7) If they pay the capital amount on an agreed instalment basis, that should be sufficient.” The UK’s position could be further weakened by indications that the Netherlands – which was hit with a £600m surcharge – is ready to go along with the deal.
(8) In miniature, Sajid Javid’s approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
(9) Revenue from the state surcharge would be earmarked for the states.
(10) France has been considering a 3% surcharge on earnings over €500,000, and Spain is considering a return to a wealth tax.
(11) Islington council will introduce a £96 per year diesel vehicle parking surcharge on 1 April.
(12) David Cameron’s refusal to pay a European budget surcharge of £1.7bn by the end of the month will incur punitive extra costs, with interest charged instantly on a rising monthly scale, the new European commission warned on Monday on its first working day in office.
(13) Isles such as Mykonos and Santorini would see a surcharge on hotel rooms, services and goods.
(14) Similarly, Sanders is running against the political establishment and calling for a fundamental restructuring of the social compact; grounded by premium-free healthcare and free public college , funded by steep tax hikes on the rich and across-the-board surcharges and fueled by what he’s calling a “political revolution”.
(15) Employers may use these data to reduce costs by not hiring tobacco users, adding surcharges for their health insurance, and strongly encouraging cessation.
(16) Financial planning for an RDF includes four analytical tasks: assessment of the potential market, estimation of the costs of an RDF, establishment of the cost-recovery objectives, definition of the role of subsidies and surcharges.
(17) We have had a strong start to the year with a record first quarter driven by a number of sales transactions being brought forward before the introduction of the additional stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-let properties,” Budden said.
(18) Judge John Stobart ordered the protesters to pay £10 compensation each to the RAF, £75 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
(19) This surcharge will also apply even if the main home you currently own is overseas.
(20) The penalty is in addition to fines, victim surcharges, compensation orders and prosecution costs.