Definition of ground

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Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground..

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Gill :: Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
Slope :: Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment..
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Yground :: Yground () p. p. of Grind.
Chess :: Chess (n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus..
Guipure :: Guipure (n.) A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides..
Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
Wend :: Wend (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
Provine :: Provine (v. t.) To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping..
Sideling :: Sideling (a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Basis :: Basis (n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..
Thick :: Thick (adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown..
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..
Ground :: Ground (v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar..
Pit :: Pit (n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit..
Rasante :: Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them..
Ignore :: Ignore (v. t.) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
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