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e of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. J. Morley.

One who or that which grooves.

To groove in; to join in or with a groove. Tennyson.

Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling).

rument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

e suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

dermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

wise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

Having two grooves or furrows.

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to chang…

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#)…

To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.

A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.