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[ A.S.grút =groats. coarse meal; cogn. with Dut. grut groats; Icel. grautr =porridge; Dan. gröd boiled groats; Sw. gröt thick pap; Ger. grütze =groats; Lat. rud us =rubble, rubbish. Allied to grit and a doublet of groats.] IMG:content-0795.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gō, pot, (2) In all other cases in the text of the A. V., "grove" is the rendering of the Hebrew word Ash- erah , which is almost certainly an idol, and not a plantation of trees, for Josiah brought one out of the house of the Lord (2 Kings xxiii. 6). The peo- ple of Judah also "built them" high places, im- ages, and groves (1 Kings xiv. 23). The combination 1. The act or proce of filling up the joints or of images and groves occurs constantly (2 Kings spaces between stones by pouring in grout. 2. Grout. xvii. 16; 2 Chron. xiv. 3; Isa. xxvii. 9, .). The idol seems to have been of wood, for it could both be nol-head.] 1. A blockhead. IMG:content-0796.png:[blocks in formation] xxx i. 1, xxxiv. 3-4) and burnt (Deut. xii. 3; 2 Kings xxiii. 15). It was upright (?), and therefore prob- ably of the human and not the bestial form (Isa. xxvii. 9). The name Asherah recalls that of the Phoenician godde Ashtoreth; the former, as sug- gested by Bertheau, being probably the name of her idol, the latter of herself. There was a relation between Baal and Asherah, and while in Elijah's time there a embled at Carmel 450 prophets of Baal, there were with them 400 "prophets of the IMG:content-0797.png:[blocks in formation] have been connected with phallic rites. [ASHTO- RETH.] Bot.: Rumex nemolapathum . grove-spirits, s . pl . [FOREST-SPIRITS.] Grove, s . [William Robert Grove, F. R. S.] Grove battery, Grove's battery, s. IMG:content-0798.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To increase or become enlarged; to increase in bbatheas bulk by the a imilation of new matter into the liv- "Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, But we will leave it growing ." Elect. Mach.: A double fluid galvanic-battery, in- vented, in 1839, by W. R. Grove, FR. S. It consists of a plate of amalgamated zinc, generally bent into a shape like the letter U, so as to embrace a flat cell of porous earthenware in which is suspended a sheet of platinum foil. The porous cell is filled with strong nitric acid, and the whole arrangement 1. 28. placed in a jar containing dilute acid one in twenty. Grove's cell, s . Elect.: A cell or jar of a Grove's battery. "The destructive force of a Grove's cell."-Everett: ( Carm . lxiii.), in which we read of the frantic fury C. G. S. System of Units (1875), ch. xi., p. 74. of Atys, of his repentance and flight, and how when the turret-crowned godde heard his plaint, she sent one of her lions after the fugitive, with the "Days that grow to something strange." Tennyson: In Memoriam, lxx. 11. *3. To increase in number. "Growe ye and be ye multiplied."-Wycliffe: Genesis 4. To improve; to make progre ; to advance. " Grow in grace."-2 Peter iii. 18. doune my bernes: and I schal make gretter, and thidir I schal gedere thing is that growen to me in my good is."- Wycliffe : Luke xii. *7. To be due or owing. gla tubes, and within each a platinum electrode, covered with finely-divided platinum, and furnished on the outside with binding screws. One of the tubes is partially filled with hydrogen, the other partially with oxygen, and they are inverted over dilute sulphuric acid, so that half the platinum is in the liquid and half in the gases. By joining the di imilar plates a battery is produced so powerful that one element of it will decompose fodide of pota ium, and four will decompose water. ( Ganot .) become. grov-el, v . i . [From the adv. groveling (q. v.), the termination -ing being mistaken for the sign of the pr par. of a verb.] [GROF.] 1. Lit .: To creep on the earth; to lie prone or with the face toward the ground; to move with the body prostrate on the earth. "Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire." Milton: P. L. , i. 280. 2. Fig .: To be mean; to be without dignity or ele- vation; to act meanly; to take pleasure in mean or base things. grov-el-er, s. [English grovel; -er.] One who grovels; a person of low, mean spirit or tastes. "This lagging race of frosty grovelers ." -Johnson: Lives of the Poets; Milton. grō ve-like, a . [Eng. grove , and like .] Thick, bushy; resembling a grove. * grov-el-Ing, *grof-lynges, * grov-el-yng, *gruf-el-ynge, *gruf-linges, adv . [Icel. grúfa , in the phrase liggja á grufu = to lie groveling.] [GROF.] Prone; flat on one's face or belly. grov-ěl-ing, pr . par .. a. & 8. [GROVEL.] A. As pr. par .: (See the verb.) IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] 10. To adhere, to become attached; to take root, to become rooted. (Followed by to or unto .) "That we become a part of what has been, And grow unto the spot, all-seeing but unseen." Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 138. IMG:content-0800.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0801.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act or proce of growing; the gradual C. As substantive : 1. The act or state of increasing in bulk by natural proce ; growth. 2. The act or busine of raising or producing vegetables. .; cultivation. *3. That which has grown; a growth, a crop. "A more thicke and more large growyng of heare." Udall: Corinthians xi.