Lexicon: groping – guage

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groping, adj. [OE.]

Struggling for something by feeling.

gross, adj. [Fr. gros, dialectical of great.] (webplay: jests).

Course; crude; unrefined; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

ground, adj. [see ground, n.]

Bottom; foundational; first; primary; most basic.

ground (-s), n. [OE 'bottom of something'.] (webplay: bottom, liquors, sea).

  1. Surface of the earth or a part of it [fig.] grave; burial place.
  2. Foundation that provides support.
  3. Specific region; territory.
  4. Plain song; tune on which songs are built.
  5. Bottom of liquors.

group (-s), n. [Fr. 'knot, cluster'.]

Collection of similar things.

grow (-ing, -s, grew, grown), v. [OE growan.]

  1. Change from one state to another; become.
  2. Increase; wax; augment.
  3. Enlarge in bulk and stature through a natural process of vegetation or human development.
  4. Mature, as in a human being; increase in age or wisdom.
  5. Emerge; advance gradually; extend by degrees.
  6. Exist as an unseen object or being.
  7. Accumulate, as in money, possessions, etc.
  8. Produce, as a farmer grows wheat.

grown, adj. [see grow, v.]

  1. Having changed from one state to another; having become.
  2. Phrase. “Grown over”: covered by the growth of any thing.

growth, n. [see grow, v.]

  1. Advancement; progress; improvement.
  2. That which grows or has grown; vegetation; produce; product; said of both material and immaterial things.

grumble, v. [unknown.]

Murmur; rumble; growl faintly.

guage (-s, -ing), v. [ONF, 'action or result of measuring'.]

Measure precisely.