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3. A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden.

Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

Groom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Grooming.] To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

Groom"er (?), n. One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

Grooms"man (?), n.; pl. Groomsmen (&?;). A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.

Groop"er (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Grouper.

Groove (?), n. [D. groef, groeve; akin to E. grove. See Grove.] 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

J. Morley.

3. [See Grove.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]

Groove, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grooved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Groving.] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

Groov"er (?), n. 1. One who or that which grooves.

2. A miner. [Prov. Eng.] Holloway.

Groov"ing (?), n. The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

Grope (grp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped (grpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. grpian to touch, grope, fr. grpan to gripe. See Gripe.] 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, v. 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. ).

Grop"er (?), n. One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

Grop"ing-ly, adv. In a groping manner.

||Gros (?), n. [F. See Gross.] A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, ||gros de Naples; gros de Tours.