Definition of ground

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Ground (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground..

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Faldfee :: Faldfee (n.) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.
Hypocrystalline :: Hypocrystalline (a.) Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
Trail :: Trail (v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb..
Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
Ground :: Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..
Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances..
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
Hold :: Hold (n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.
Curtilage :: Curtilage (n.) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house..
Slump :: Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person..
Overground :: Overground (a.) Situated over or above ground; as, the overground portion of a plant..
Underground :: Underground (a.) Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
Flat Foot :: Flat foot () A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot..
Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Churchyard :: Churchyard (n.) The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery..
Height :: Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature..
Root :: Root (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag..
Linoleum :: Linoleum (n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
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