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To form into round ridges by plowing. B. Edwards.

A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.

A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.

Roundness; a round or circle. [Obs.] Shak.

A nematoid worm.

Round. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

To surround. [Obs.] Shak.

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

er crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. There was not a man to till the ground. Gen. ii. 5. The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23. Hence:

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.

In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill.

p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.

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.

Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.

A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. [Obs.] Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.