grouting (grouting)

[Verbal n. of grout2, v.] In building: (a) The proce of filling in or finishing with grout. (b) The grout thus filled in. groutnollt (grout'nol), n. [Also groutnol, grout nowl, growtnoul, groutnold, grutnold; Growte-nowle, come to the king. Promos and Cas sandra , p. 81. ( Hall i well .) That same dwarfe's a pretty boy, but the squire's a groutnold. Beau. and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, ii. grouty (grou'ti), a. [ grout1 + -y1.] 1. Thick, muddy, or dreggy, as liquor.-2. Sulky; surly; cro . [Colloq.] The sun, I sometimes think, is a little grouty at sea, especially at high noon, feeling that he wastes his beams on those fruitle furrows. Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 163. At home, the agreeable companion became at once a grouty grandson. J. T. Trow bridge , Coupon Bonds, p. 204. grouzet, v. t. [Origin obscure.] To devour noisily. Davies . Like swine under the oaks, we grouze up the akecorns, and snouk about for more, and eat them too. Bp . Sanders on, Works, III. 187. grovel (grov), n. [ grāf , a grove, a small wood (> ML. grav a , grave a , grav i um , a grove); connected perhaps with AS. græf or græfe , a bush (L. dumus ), > ME. greve , early mod. E. greave2 , q. v. Usually derived from AS. grafan , E. gravel , dig, "a grove being orig. an alley cut out in a wood," or "a glade, or lane cut through trees"; but neither graf nor græfe is derivable, phonetically, from grafan (the derivative from grafan , in this sort, being * grof , E. groove ), and there is no proof that grove ever had any meaning other than its present one.] A group of trees of indefinite extent, but not large enough to constitute a forest; especially, such a group considered as furnishing shade for avenues or walks; a small wood free from underbrush. ... secheth pathes to the grove. The hare Owl and Nightingale, 1.380. Grove, lytyl wode, lucus. Prompt. Parv., p. 215. Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others, whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable. Milton , P. L., iv. 248. The groves were God's first temples. Bryant , Forest Hymn. [In the authorized version of the Bible grove is used er roneously-(a) As a translation (following the Septuagint and Vulgate) of the Hebrew word Asherah (pl. Asherim ), The revised version retains Asherah, inserting "or obelisk " in the margin. It is now commonly understood as meaning a divinity or an image of a divinity worshiped by lewd rites, and as a variation in form of the name Astarte or Ashtaroth. 2639 And he [Mana eh] set a graven image of the grove [revised version, "of Asherah "] that he had made in the house. 2 Ki. xxi. 7. (b) As a translation of the Hebrew word eshel in Gen. xxi. 33, rendered tree in 1 Sam. xxx i. 13, and in both pa ages in the revised version tamarisk tree.] - The groves of Academe, the shaded walks of the Academy at Athens; hence, any scene or course of philosophical or learned pursuits. See academy. Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour amongst the groves of Academe Pen now found his way. Thackeray , Pen dennis. =Syn. Woods, Park, etc. See forest. grove2 (grov), n. Same as groove, 3. Grove battery. See cell, 8. grovecropt, n. A grove. Davies. In town's myd center the are sprouted a groavecrop. Stan i hurst, Æneid, L. 424. grovel (grov'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. groveled or grovelled, ppr. groveling or grovelling. [Formed from the adv. groveling, taken for the ppr. of a supposed verb, as darkle similarly from dark ling, adv.] 1. To creep or crawl on the earth, or with the face and body bent to the ground; lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth; especially, to lie prostrate in abject humility, fear, etc. Gaze on, and grovel on thy face. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. No coarse and blockish God of acreage Stands at thy gate for thee to grovel to. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. Man... grovels on the ground as a miserable sinner, and stands up to declare that he is the channel of Divine inspiration. Leslie Stephen , Apology for Plain Speaking, p. 307. Hence-2. To have a tendency toward or take pleasure in low or base things; be low, abject, or mean; be morally depraved. Let low and earthly Souls grovel 'till they have work'd themselves six Foot deep into a Grave. Congreve, Old Batchelor, i. 1. Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn. Beattie , Minstrel, i. Compared With him who grovels , self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and Christian hope. Words worth, To Lady Fleming. One who growable of its parts; specifically, to increase by a imilation of nutriment, as animals or plants. In that Cytee, a man cast an brennynge Dart in wratthe aftir oure Lord, and the Hed smot in to the Eerthe, and wax grene, and it growed to a gret Tree. Mandeville , Travels, p. 117. In his gardyn growed swich a tree, On which he seyde how that hise wyves thre Hanged hemself for herte despitous. Chaucer , Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 759. He [a Nazarite]. his head grow. shall let the locks of the hair of Num. vi. 5. My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow More than my brother: "Ay," quoth my uncle Gloster, "Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. Shak., Rich. III., ii. 4. 2. To be enlarged or extended, in general; increase; wax: as, a growing reputation; to grow in grace or in beauty. The Day grows on; I must no more be seen. Beau . and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, 1. 2. Several of the wisest among the nobles began to apprehend the growing power of the people. Swift , Nobles and Commons, iii. In all things grew his wisdom and his wealth. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 315. Herein lay the root of the matter; the third England was not made, but grew . E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 178. 3. To be changed from one state to another; become; be carried or extended, as to a condition or a result: as, to grow pale; to grow indifferent; to grow rich; the wind grew to a tempest. Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed, That he is grown so great? Shak., J. C., i. 2. I rather now had hope to shew you how love By his acce es grows more natural. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii. 2. Four of the commi ioners gave them a meeting, which grew to this i ue. Winthrop , Hist. New England, I. 201. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied. Steele , Spectator, No. 2. groveler, groveller (grov'l-er), n . grovels; a person of a base, mean, groveling if by a proce of growth. disposition.