grovelingt, grovellingt (grovling)

[Dial. grub blings; Grovelynge to his fete thay felle. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1119. Streight downe againe herselfe, in great despight, She groveling threw to ground. Spenser , F. Q., II. 1. 45. groveling, grovelling (grov'l-ing), p. a. [Ppr. of grovel, v.; orig. only an adverb: see grovel ing, adv.] 1. Lying with the face downward; lying prone; crawling; abject. How instinct varies in the grovelling swine! Pope , E ay on Man, i. 221. 2. Mean; low; without dignity or respect. No grovelling jealousy was in her heart. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. So groveling became the superstition of his followers that they drank of the water in which he had washed, and treasured it as a divine elixir. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 67. Syn. 2. Abject , Low, Mean , etc. See abject . Grove's gas-battery. See battery . grovett, n. [ Divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof. Beaumont , Masque of Inner-Temple, Arg.