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To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

Ground. Sir W. Scott.

Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q.

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

ing, etc.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.

Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.

To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

To become attached of fixed; to adhere. Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. Shak. Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To…

To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

Forwards; with one's face to the ground. [Obs.] They fellen gruf, and cryed piteously. Chaucer.

A groundling (fish). [Prov. Eng.]

An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise. A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess. Dryden.

e (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

ifferent kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

e; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.

A whirlpool. [Obs.] The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.

rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.

To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass. "A ground . . . hained in." Holland.