Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GROUND'-RENT – GROW'ING
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GROUND'-RENT, n.
Rent paid for the privilege of building on another man's land. Johnson.
GROUND'-ROOM, n.
A room on the ground; a lower room. Tatler.
GROUND'SEL, n.
A plant of the genus Senecio, of several species.
GROUND'SEL, or GROUND'SILL, n. [ground, and Sax. syll, basis, allied probably to L. sella, that which is set. See Sill.]
The timber of a building which lies next to the ground; commonly called a sill.
GROUND'-SWELL, n.
The swell or rolling of billows in the ocean near the shore, or in water not deep.
GROUND'-TACK-LE, n.
In ships, the ropes and furniture belonging to anchors.
GROUND'WORK, n.
- The work which forms the foundation or support of any thing; the basis; the fundamentals.
- The ground; that to which the rest are additional. Dryden.
- First principle; original reason. Dryden.
GROUP, or GROOP, n. [It. groppo, a knot, a bunch; Fr. groupe; Sp. grupo. It is radically the same word as croup, crupper, rump; W. grab, a cluster, a grape.]
- A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
- In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.
GROUP, or GROUP, v.t. [Fr. grouper.]
To form a group; to bring or place together in a cluster or knot; to form an assemblage. The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. Prior.
Formed or placed in a crowd.
GROUP'ING, n.
The art of composing or combining the objects of a picture or piece of sculpture. Cyc.
GROUP'ING, or GROOP'ING, ppr.
Bringing together in a cluster or assemblage.
GROUSE, n. [grous; Pers. خُرُوسْ goros, gros, a cock.]
A heath-cock or cock of the wood, a fowl of the genus Tetrao. The name is given to several species, forming a particular division of the genus; such as the black game, the red game, the ptarmigan, the ruffed grouse, &c.
GROUSE, v.i.
To seek or shoot grouse.
GROUS'ING, ppr.
Shooting grouse.
GROUT, n. [Sax. grut. See Groat.]
- Coarse meal; pollard.
- A kind of wild apple. Johnson.
- A thin coarse mortar.
- That which purges off. Warner.
GROVE, n. [Sax. græf, graf, a grave, a cave; a grove; Goth. groba; from cutting an avenue, or from the resemblance of an avenue to a channel.]
- In gardening, a small wood or cluster of trees with a shaded avenue, or a wood impervious to the rays of the sun. A grove is either open or close; open when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below; close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds. Encyc.
- A wood of small extent. In America, the word is applied to a wood of natural growth in the field, as well as to planted trees in a garden, but only to a wood of small extent and not to a forest.
- Something resembling a wood or trees in a wood. Tall groves of masts arose in beauteous pride. Trumball.
GROV'EL, v.i. [grov'l; Ice. gruva; Chaucer, groff, flat on the ground or face; Scot. on groufe; allied to grope, – which see.]
- To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth; to act in a prostate posture. Gaze on and grovel on thy face. Shak. To creep and grovel on the ground. Milton.
- To be low or mean; as, groveling sense; groveling thoughts. Dryden. Addison.
GROV'EL-ER, n.
One who grovels; an abject wretch.
GROV'EL-ING, ppr.
- Creeping; moving on the ground.
- adj. Mean; without dignity or elevation.
GROV'Y, a.
Pertaining to a grove; frequenting groves.
GROW, v.i. [pret. grew; pp. grown. Sax. growan; D. groeyen; Dan. groer; Sw. gro, a contracted word; W. crotiaw, crythu, to grow, to swell. This is probably the same word as L. cresco, Russ. rastu, rostu, a dialectical variation of crodh or grodh. The French croître, and Eng. increase, retain the final consonant.]
- To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man. He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Ps. civ.
- To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates.
- To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil.
- To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation.
- To advance; to extend. His reputation is growing.
- To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.
- To come forward; to advance. [Not much used.] Winter began to grow fast on. – Knolles.
- To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich.
- To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.
- To accrue; to come. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? – Ezra iv.
- To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest. To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem. These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. – Federalist, Hamilton. To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity. To grow up, or To grow together, To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Grow signifies, properly, to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less. Marriages grow less frequent. – Paley. [To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.]
GROW, v.t.
To produce; to raise; as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. [This is a modern abusive use of grow, but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.]
GROW'ER, n.
- One who grows; that which increases.
- In English use, one who raises or produces.
GROW'ING, ppr.
Increasing; advancing in size or extent; becoming; accruing; swelling; thriving.