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To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin. Hare.

One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, .grub hook, etc.

To feel or grope in the dark. [Obs.] Dryden.

Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.

See Grub, n., 1. And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view. C. Smart.

Same as Urrhodin.

A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang] Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs Beau. & Fl.

To undermine. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

of summer." Lowell. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.…

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.

grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

(as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.

(Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabé.

arvæ are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.

An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax. 'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. Shak.

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens.