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Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

See Groan. [Obs.]

See Groan. [Obs.]

obs. imp. of Groan. Chaucer.

To murmur; to grumble. [Obs.] What aileth you, thus for grucche and groan. Chaucer.

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

ear by listening. [Archaic] [She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound. Spenser.

breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. Shak.

ause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully. The hurt lion groans within his den. Dryden.

n with implacable fire. Spenser. Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

often) against, another or others. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. Rom. viii. 26.

ecif., a lord paramount; a sovereign. Mrs. Browning. The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. Shak.

Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously. Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans. Thomson. Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan. Shak.

Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism] At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight. Dryden.

; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.

nd flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. sambucifolia).

ority; control. Obey them that have the rule over you. Heb. xiii. 17. His stern rule the groaning land obeyed. Pope.

A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough. [Obs.] He sigheth with full many a sorry swough. Chaucer.

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked. I. Watts. [We] do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v. 4.