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- English Word Ground Definition To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
- English Word Ground Definition To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- English Word Ground Definition To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.
- English Word Ground Definition imp. & p. p. of Grind.
- English Word Groundage Definition A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
- English Word Grounded Definition of Ground
- English Word Groundedly Definition In a grounded or firmly established manner.
- English Word Grounden Definition p. p. of Grind.
- English Word Grounding Definition of Ground
- English Word Grounding Definition The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
- English Word Groundless Definition Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
- English Word Groundling Definition A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
- English Word Groundling Definition A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.
- English Word Groundly Definition Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.
- English Word Groundnut Definition The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
- English Word Groundnut Definition A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste.
- English Word Groundnut Definition The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia).
- English Word Groundnut Definition A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.
- English Word Groundsel Definition An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
- English Word Groundsel Definition Alt. of Groundsill
- English Word Groundsill Definition See Ground plate (a), under Ground
- English Word Groundwork Definition That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
- English Word Group Definition A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
- English Word Group Definition An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
- English Word Group Definition A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
- English Word Group Definition A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- English Word Group Definition To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
- English Word Grouped Definition of Group
- English Word Grouper Definition One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
- English Word Grouper Definition The tripletail (Lobotes).