Definition of ground

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Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..

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Weed :: Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant..
Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy
Clod :: Clod (n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
Fougasse :: Fougasse (n.) A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy..
Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish..
Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n..
Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
Substylar :: Substructure (n.) An under structure; a foundation; groundwork.
Ground :: Ground (v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar..
Superficies :: Superficies (n.) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)..
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Accommodation :: Accommodation (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended..
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
Ground :: Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody..
Commoner :: Commoner (n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.
Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..
Rase :: Rase (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease..
Cemetery :: Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
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