Definition of ground

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Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds..

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Leader :: Leader (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
Thick :: Thick (adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown..
Base :: Base (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline..
Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
Palification :: Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Pingle :: Pingle (n.) A small piece of inclosed ground.
Wike :: Wike (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker..
Jump :: Jump (v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
Reliance :: Reliance (n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid..
Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..
Gill :: Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
Shim :: Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds..
Newfoundland :: Newfoundland (n.) An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity..
Land :: Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
Base :: Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
Adown :: Adown (adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground..
Bridestake :: Bridestake (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round..
Ground :: Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope..
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