Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

In a griping or oppressive manner.

The man who manipulates a grip.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

One who, or that which, grips or seizes.

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

The quality of being gripple.

A traveler's handbag.

A little pig.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Ambergris.

A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.

The spine of a hog.

See Grizzled.

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Cartilage. See Cartilage.

Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

Peace; security; agreement.

See Grit, n., 4.

The quality of being gritty.

Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

Same as 2d Grise.

See Gridelin.

To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble.

Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.

A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.

Agonizing; sad.

An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

A trader who deals in foods such as meats, dairy products, produce, tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.

The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.

A black-coated sheep dog with a heavily plumed tail.

A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

A grogshop.

State of being groggy.

Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.

A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.

A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

The snout of a swine.

To fashion into groins; to build with groins.

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

The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

Same as Grommet.

See Gromwell.

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope. Sometimes written grummet.

A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.

obs. imp. of Grind.

To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

Preparing a person for a position requiring skilled behavior, especially by providing opposrtunity for practise and guidance in making the right decisions; as, to provide grooming for one's successor as president.

A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the chief attendant is also called the best man; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.

See Grouper.

To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

having grooves; as, a record is a grooved disk.

One who or that which grooves.

The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

Very pleasant or very enjoyable; marvelous; wonderful; excellent; -- expressing strong approval, usually of enjoyable experiences.

To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

In a groping manner.

A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It was discontinued in the new monetary system of the empire and not subsequeently used.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.

Thick-skulled; stupid.

See Grosbeak.

The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.

A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.

Same as Grossular.

A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.

a Polish monetary unit, equal to / of a zloty.

A grotto.

A groat.

A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.

In a grotesque manner.

Quality of being grotesque.

Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings; ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto.

to complain habitually, especially about minor or routine annoyances.

given to complaining or grumbling; prone to show annoyance at slight provocation; irritable.

imp. p. p. of Grind.

low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow.

A reddish brown North American burrowing marmot (Marmota monax), also called the woodchuck. It hibernates in the winter.

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.

A small prostrate or ascending shrub (Astroloma humifusum) having scarlet flowers and thin-fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus Styphelia.

The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project. It is sometimes carried out by an official who digs the first spadeful of dirt from the ground, to begin the preparatory excavation work.

In a grounded or firmly established manner.

p. p. of Grind.

A batted ball that hits the ground before it leaves the infield, or the act of hitting a baseball along the ground; also called ground ball; -- contrasted with fly or fly ball.

Fish that live on the sea bottom, especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder.

The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation.

Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; baseless; as, groundless fear; a groundless report, rumor, or assertion.

A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.

Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.

The fruit of the Arachis hypog/a (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia). A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.

An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.

a piece of waterproofed cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect the occupants from moisture.

See Ground plate (a), under Ground

A long, deep wave in the sea, sometimes caused by distant winds or storms.

That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle; as, development of a convenient DNA sequencing technique layed the groundwork for many of the subsequent advances in molecular genetics.

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

arranged into groups, each having some feature in common.

One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranid/, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail (Lobotes). In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes.