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To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bears that groined coatinually. Spenser.

Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170º Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for ill…

rit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

rnia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

n disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction.

See Groin.

The groin.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.

less, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.

rm is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The terms petroleum ether, and naphtha, are sometimes applied to the still more volatile products, including rhigolene, gasoline, cymogene, etc.

The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.

Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

Pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.

(Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. Dunglison.