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- English Word Grope Definition To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
- English Word Grope Definition To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
- English Word Grope Definition To examine; to test; to sound.
- English Word Groped Definition of Grope
- English Word Groper Definition One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
- English Word Groping Definition of Grope
- English Word Groping-ly Definition In a groping manner.
- English Word Gros Definition A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.
- English Word Grosbeak Definition One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.
- English Word Groschen Definition A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.
- English Word Grosgrain Definition Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
- English Word Gross Definition Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
- English Word Gross Definition Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
- English Word Gross Definition Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
- English Word Gross Definition Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
- English Word Gross Definition Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
- English Word Gross Definition Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
- English Word Gross Definition Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
- English Word Gross Definition The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
- English Word Gross Definition The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
- English Word Gross-headed Definition Thick-skulled; stupid.
- English Word Grossbeak Definition See Grosbeak.
- English Word Grossification Definition The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
- English Word Grossification Definition The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.
- English Word Grossly Definition In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
- English Word Grossness Definition The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
- English Word Grossular Definition Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.
- English Word Grossular Definition A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.
- English Word Grossularia Definition Same as Grossular.
- English Word Grossulin Definition A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.