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The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

ze of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

o ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, wi…

Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

lf, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

ers, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

n; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.