Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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).
- Surface of the earth or a part of it [fig.] grave; burial place.
- Foundation that provides support.
- Specific region; territory.
- Plain song; tune on which songs are built.
- Bottom of liquors.
group (-s), n. [Fr. 'knot, cluster'.]
Collection of similar things.
grow (-ing, -s, grew, grown), v. [OE growan.]
- Change from one state to another; become.
- Increase; wax; augment.
- Enlarge in bulk and stature through a natural process of vegetation or human development.
- Mature, as in a human being; increase in age or wisdom.
- Emerge; advance gradually; extend by degrees.
- Exist as an unseen object or being.
- Accumulate, as in money, possessions, etc.
- Produce, as a farmer grows wheat.
grown, adj. [see grow, v.]
- Having changed from one state to another; having become.
- Phrase. “Grown over”: covered by the growth of any thing.
growth, n. [see grow, v.]
- Advancement; progress; improvement.
- 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.