Definition of ground

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Ground (n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural..

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Rootstock :: Rootstock (n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome..
Viaduct :: Viaduct (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework..
Park :: Park (n.) A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York..
Ground :: Ground (n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.
Chewink :: Chewink (n.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin..
Jolt :: "Jolt (v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts..
Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain..
Encouraging :: Encouraging (a.) Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands..
Esplees :: Esplees (n. pl.) The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like..
Groundsel :: Groundsel (v.) An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe..
Ground :: Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody..
Fundamental :: Fundamental (n.) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis..
Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
Plot :: Plot (n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot..
A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English
Water Color :: Water color () A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
Passado :: Passado (v. i.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
Bake :: Bake (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun..
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