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Webster 1913 Edition
Grope
Grope
(grōp)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Groped
(grōpt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Groping
.] 1.
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
[Obs.]
2.
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one’s way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
We
grope
for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10.
To
grope
a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.
Grope
,Verb.
T.
1.
To search out by feeling in the dark;
as, we groped our way at midnight
. 2.
To examine; to test; to sound.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Felix
gropeth
him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).
Webster 1828 Edition
Grope
GROPE
, v.i.1.
To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is.59.
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2.
To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.GROPE
,Verb.
T.
We groped our way at midnight.
But Strephon, cautious, never meant
The bottom of the pan to grope.