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The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

n the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

One who grovels; an abject wretch. [Written also groveller.]

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet atta…

A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

inguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

Birchen; as, birken groves. Burns.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

ven to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow.

Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. Cowley.

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.