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Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

e common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

ur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

ch has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren…

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in…

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of public credit is good faith. A. Hamilton.

The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.