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Webster 1913 Edition
Grove
Grove
(grōv)
, Noun.
[AS. , and cf.
graf
, fr. grafan
to dig. The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave
, Verb.
Groove
.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
☞ The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of the Bible, is left untranslated in the Revised Version. Almost all modern interpreters agree that by Asherah an idol or image of some kind is intended.
Webster 1828 Edition
Grove
GROVE
, n.1.
In gardening, a small wood or cluster of trees with a shaded avenue, or a wood impervious to the rays of the sun. A grove is either open or close; open, when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below; close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds.2.
A wood of small extent. In America, the word is applied to a wood of natural growth in the field,as well as to planted trees in a garden,but only to a wood of small extent and not to a forest.3.
Something resembling a wood or trees in a wood. Tall groves of masts arose in beauteous pride.