FORAGE, food for cattle or horses, chiefly the provender collected for the horses of an army. In early usage the word was confined to dried forage as opposed to grass. From this word comes "foray," an expedition in search of "forage," and hence a pillaging expedition, a raid. The word "forage," directly derived from Fr. fourrage, comes from a common Teutonic origin, and appears in "fodder," food for cattle. The ultimate Indo-European root, pat, cf. Gr. irar eia8au, Lat. pascere, to feed, gives "food," "feed," "foster" ; and appears also in such Latin derivatives as "pastor," "pasture."