1. The ichnography of a building. NWAD GROUND-PLOT.2
The timber of a building which lies next to the ground; commonly called a sill. NWAD GROUNDSEL.3
1. The ground; that to which the rest are additional. NWAD GROUNDWORK.2
2. First principle; original reason. NWAD GROUNDWORK.3
1. A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as a group of men or of trees; a group of isles. NWAD GROUP.2
2. In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other. NWAD GROUP.3
The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. NWAD GROUP.5
1. A kind of wild apple. NWAD GROUT.2
2. A thin coarse mortar. NWAD GROUT.3
3. That which purges off. NWAD GROUT.4
1. In gardening, a small wood or cluster of trees with a shaded avenue, or a wood impervious to the rays of the sun. A grove is either open or close; open, when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below; close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds. NWAD GROVE.2
2. A wood of small extent. In America, the word is applied to a wood of natural growth in the field, as well as to planted trees in a garden, but only to a wood of small extent and not to a forest. NWAD GROVE.3
3. Something resembling a wood or trees in a wood. NWAD GROVE.4
Tall groves of masts arose in beauteous pride. NWAD GROVE.5
1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth; to act in a prostrate posture. NWAD GROVEL.2
Gaze on and grovel on thy face. NWAD GROVEL.3
To creep and grovel on the ground. NWAD GROVEL.4
2. To be low or mean; a groveling sense; groveling thoughts. NWAD GROVEL.5
1. Mean; without dignity or elevation. NWAD GROVELING.2
1. To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man. NWAD GROW.2
He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Psalm 104:14. NWAD GROW.3
2. To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates. NWAD GROW.4
3. To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil. NWAD GROW.5
4. To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation. NWAD GROW.6
5. To advance; to extend. His reputation is growing. NWAD GROW.7
6. To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit. NWAD GROW.8
7. To come forward; to advance. [Not much used.] NWAD GROW.9
Winter began to grow fast on. NWAD GROW.10
8. To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich. NWAD GROW.11
9. To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion. NWAD GROW.12
10. To accrue; to come. NWAD GROW.13
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra 4:22. NWAD GROW.14
11. To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest. NWAD GROW.15
To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem. NWAD GROW.16
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. NWAD GROW.17
To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity. NWAD GROW.18
To grow up, NWAD GROW.19
To grow together, To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. NWAD GROW.20
Grow, signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less. NWAD GROW.21
Marriages grow less frequent. NWAD GROW.22
[To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.] NWAD GROW.23
1. In English use, one who raises or produces. NWAD GROWER.2
1. Having arrived at full size or stature; as a grown woman. NWAD GROWN.2
Grown over, covered by the growth of any thing; overgrown. NWAD GROWN.3
1. Product; produce; that which has grown; as a fine growth of wood. NWAD GROWTH.2
2. Production; any thing produced; as a poem of English growth. NWAD GROWTH.3
3. Increase in number, bulk or frequency. NWAD GROWTH.4
4. Increase in extent or prevalence; as the growth of trade; the growth of vice. NWAD GROWTH.5
5. Advancement; progress; improvement; as growth in grace or piety. NWAD GROWTH.6
1. A kind of fish. NWAD GROWTHEAD.2
2. A lazy person; a lubber. NWAD GROWTHEAD.3
1. A short thick man; a dwarf, in contempt. NWAD GRUB.4
1. To be discontented at another’s enjoyments or advantages; to envy one the possession or happiness which we desire for ourselves. NWAD GRUDGE.2
‘Tis not in thee NWAD GRUDGE.3
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. NWAD GRUDGE.4
I have often heard the presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments. NWAD GRUDGE.5
It is followed by two objects, but probably by ellipsis; as, grudge us for grudge to us. NWAD GRUDGE.6
2. To give or take unwillingly. NWAD GRUDGE.7
Nor grudge my cold embraces in the grave. NWAD GRUDGE.8
They have grudged those contributions, which have set our country at the head of all the governments of Europe. NWAD GRUDGE.9
1. To be unwilling or reluctant. Not to serve your country. NWAD GRUDGE.11
2. To be envious. NWAD GRUDGE.12
Grudge not one against another. James 5:9. NWAD GRUDGE.13
3. To wish in secret. [Not used nor proper.] NWAD GRUDGE.14
4. To feel compunction; to grieve. [Not in use.] NWAD GRUDGE.15
1. Unwillingness to benefit. NWAD GRUDGE.17
2. Remorse of conscience. NWAD GRUDGE.18
1. Reluctance; also, a secret wish or desire. NWAD GRUDGING.3
He had a grudging still to be a knave. NWAD GRUDGING.4
2. A symptom of disease. [Not in use.] NWAD GRUDGING.5
--And gruffly looked the god. NWAD GRUFFLY.2
1. Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly. NWAD GRUM.2
2. Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as a grum voice. NWAD GRUM.3
1. To murmur with discontent; to utter a low voice by way of complaint. NWAD GRUMBLE.2
L’Avare, not using half his store, NWAD GRUMBLE.3
Still grumbles that he has no more. NWAD GRUMBLE.4
2. To growl; to snarl; as a lion grumbling over his prey. NWAD GRUMBLE.5
3. To rumble; to roar; to make a harsh and heavy sound; as grumbling thunder; a grumbling storm. [In this sense, rumble is generally used.] NWAD GRUMBLE.6
To murmur like a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. NWAD GRUNT.2
1. A fish of the gurnard king. NWAD GRUNTER.2
1. Any thing very small or of little value. [Not much used.] NWAD GRY.2
Crowstone, an oblong fossil shell, narrow at the head, and wider towards the extremity, where it ends in a circular limb; the head or beak is very hooked. NWAD GRYPHITE.2
1. To warrant; to make sure; to undertake or engage that another person shall perform what he has stipulated; to oblige one’s self to see that another’s engagements are performed; to secure the performance of; as, to guaranty the execution of a treaty. NWAD GUARANTY.2
2. To undertake to secure to another, at all events, as claims, rights or possessions. Thus in the treaty of 1778, France guarantied to the United States their liberty, sovereignty and independence, and their possessions; and the United States guarantied to France its possessions in America. NWAD GUARANTY.3
The United States shall guaranty to every state in the Union a republican form of government. NWAD GUARANTY.4
3. To indemnify; to save harmless. NWAD GUARANTY.5
[Note. This verb, whether written guaranty or guarantee, forms an awkward participle of the present tense; and we cannot relish either guarantying or guaranteeing. With the accent on the first syllable, as now pronounced, it seems expedient to drop the y in the participle, and write guaranting.] NWAD GUARANTY.6
1. An undertaking or engagement by a third person or party, that the stipulations of a treaty shall be observed by the contracting parties or by one of them; an undertaking that the engagement or promise of another shall be performed. NWAD GUARANTY.8
2. One who binds himself to see the stipulations of another performed; written also guarantee. NWAD GUARANTY.9
1. To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety. We guard a city by walls and forts. A harbor is guarded by ships, booms or batteries. Innocence should be guarded by prudence and piety. Let observation and experience guard us against temptations to vice. NWAD GUARD.2
2. To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence. NWAD GUARD.3
Homer has guarded every circumstance with caution. NWAD GUARD.4
3. To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army. NWAD GUARD.5
4. To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments. NWAD GUARD.6
5. To gird; to fasten by binding. NWAD GUARD.7
1. Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack. NWAD GUARD.10
2. That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends. Modesty is the guard of innocence. NWAD GUARD.11
3. A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise. Kings have their guards to secure their persons. Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a captain of Pharaoh’s guard. NWAD GUARD.12
4. A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed. Be on your guard. Temerity puts a man off his guard. NWAD GUARD.13
5. That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression. NWAD GUARD.14
They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I. NWAD GUARD.15
6. Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand. NWAD GUARD.16
7. In fencing, a posture of defense. NWAD GUARD.17
8. An ornamental lace, hem or boarder. NWAD GUARD.18
Advanced guard, NWAD GUARD.19
Van guard, In military affairs, a body of troops, either horse or foot, that march before an army or division, to prevent surprise, or give notice of danger. NWAD GUARD.20
Rear guard, a body of troops that march in the rear of an army or division, for its protection. NWAD GUARD.21
Life guard, a body of select troops, whose duty is to defend the person of a prince or other officer. NWAD GUARD.22
1. In heraldry, having the face turned toward the spectator. NWAD GUARDANT.2
1. Cautions; circumspect. He was guarded in his expressions. NWAD GUARDED.2
2. Framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. NWAD GUARDED.3
1. A warden; one who guards, preserves or secures; one to whom any thing is committed for preservation from injury. NWAD GUARDIAN.2
2. In law, one who is chosen or appointed to take charge of the estate and education of an orphan who is a minor, or of any person who is not of sufficient discretion to manage his own concerns. The person committed to the care of a guardian is called his ward. NWAD GUARDIAN.3
Guardian of the spiritualities, the person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese is entrusted, during the vacancy of the see. NWAD GUARDIAN.4
Government; rule; direction. [Little used.] NWAD GUBERNATION.2
1. A person easily cheated or ensnared. NWAD GUDGEON.2
2. A bait; allurement; something to be caught to a man’s disadvantage. NWAD GUDGEON.3
3. An iron pin on which a wheel turns. NWAD GUDGEON.4
Sea-gudgeon, the black goby or rock fish. NWAD GUDGEON.5