grubstake

t. & i. [Eng. grub, and stake.] To supply with food while working on an uncertainty, as looking for minerals, . Grŭb street, s. & a. [See def.] *A. As substantive: IMG:content-0802.png:[blocks in formation] grub, s. [GRUB, v.] 2. Advanced to full age, stature, or maturity. "I saw lately a pair of China shoes, which I was told were for a grown woman, that would scarce have been big enough for one of our little girls." -Locke . grown-over, a. Overgrown; covered with growth of anything. "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof."- Proverbs xxiv. 31.