ground (ground)

[ = IMG:content-2716.png:[blocks in formation] caried Our men,... grounding themselues vpon the good ne e of their cause, and the promise of God,... resolute mindes. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 286. This duke Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece: Grounded upon no other argument But that the people praise her for her virtues. Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 3. To instruct thoroughly in elements or first principles. For he was grounded in astronomye. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 414. The Latin I have sufficiently tried him in, and I promise you, sir, he is very well grounded. Beau . and Fl ., Wit at Several Weapons, i. 2. The fact is she had learned it [French] long ago, and grounded herself subsequently in the grammar so as to be able to teach it to George. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lxiii. 4. To lay or set on or in the ground; bring to ground, or to rest on or as if on the ground. And th' Okes, deep grounded in the earthly molde, Did move, as if they could him understand. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 453. When the fans are thus discharged, the word of command, in course, is to ground their fans. Add is on, Spectator, No. 102. IMG:content-2717.png:[blocks in formation] 6. In elect., to connect with the earth, as a conductor, so that the electricity can pa off to it. If an accidental connection with the ground should occur, or, as it is technically said, a ground appears on the wires, it is at once tested for by grounding the circuit at the office. T. D. Lock wood , Elect., Mag., and Teleg., p. 138. 7. To form a ground on or for; furnish with a ground or base. See ground1 , n ., 10. For the first biting, ground and smoke the plate in the ordinary manner. Workshop Receipts , 1st ser., p. 160. To ground arms ( mil it.), to lay the arms upon the ground in front of the soldier: an old movement used especially by prisoners in cases of capture or surrender. Every burgher. should ground arms, in token of Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii. submi ion. To ground in, in hand block - printing, to apply secondary and subsequent colors to (a cotton cloth which has received the color of the first block). II. in trans. 1. To run aground; strike the ground and remain fixed, as a ship. Ere wee had sayled halfe a league, our ship grounding gaue vs once more libertie to summon them to a parley. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 238. Romero himself, whose ship had grounded, sprang out of a port hole and swam ashore. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 527. 2. To come to or strike the ground. He [the batsman] is... out if he strikes the ball into the air and it is caught by one of his adversaries before it grounds. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 178. 3. To base an opinion or course of action; depend. [Obsolete or archaic.] Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary. Middle ton, Family of Love, iv. 3. I say, moreover, and I ground upon experience, that poisons contain within themselves their own antidote. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 10. ground2 (ground). Preterit and past participle of grind .