<B>growler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or animal that growls. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fish that makes a grunting sound when taken from the water, such as the grunt. <DD><B> 3. </B>a piece of floating ice, considerably smaller than an iceberg, that has broken off from a glacier or iceberg. <DD><B> 4. </B>an electromagnetic device used for finding short circuits and for magnetizing and demagnetizing. The presence of a short circuit is indicated by a growling noise. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a pail or pitcher to get beer in. <DD><B> 6. </B>(British Slang.) a four-wheeled, horse-drawn cab. </DL>
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<B>growlingly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a growling manner; with a growl. </DL>
<B>grown, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>arrived at full growth. A grown man is an adult. (SYN) mature. <DD><B> 2. </B>covered with a growth. <DD><I>verb </I> the past participle of <B>grow.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The corn has grown very tall.</I> </DL>
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<B>grown-up, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>arrived at full growth; adult. <BR> <I>Ex. a grown-up person.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of or suitable for adults. <BR> <I>Ex. grown-up manners.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an adult. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy eats like a grown-up.</I> noun <B>grown-upness.</B> </DL>
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<B>growth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of growing; development. <DD><B> 2. </B>the amount grown; increase; progress. <BR> <I>Ex. one year's growth.</I> (SYN) expansion, enlargement. <DD><B> 3. </B>what has grown or is growing. <BR> <I>Ex. A thick growth of bushes covered the ground.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>an abnormal mass of tissue formed in or on the body. A tumor is a growth. <BR> <I>Ex. Cancer causes a growth.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>origin; source. <BR> <I>Ex. a plant of foreign growth, a story of English growth.</I> </DL>
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<B>growth center,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a center or institute providing sensitivity training, Gestalt therapy, or some from of group therapy for the development of people's potentials. </DL>
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<B>growth curve,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mathematical expression of the growth of a living thing or a population in relation to time. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=learning curve.</B> </DL>
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<B>growth factor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>any substance which affects the growth of an organism. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=growth hormone.</B> </DL>
<B>growth fund,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mutual-fund investment company whose stated goal is growth or appreciation in capital value. </DL>
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<B>growth hormone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hormone, secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, which controls the growthof the body; somatotropin. Oversecretion causes gigantism; undersecretion, dwarfism. <DD><B> 2. </B>any hormone which regulates plant growth, such as an auxin; growth substance. </DL>
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<B>growth industry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an industry whose rate of development or expansion is higher than the rate of growth of the entire economic system. </DL>
<A NAME="growthless">
<B>growthless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> lacking in growth. </DL>
<A NAME="growthmanship">
<B>growthmanship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> emphasis on economic growth, especially as a national policy. <BR> <I>Ex. The nation is no longer being asked to cry for ... immediate 4 per cent growth. But neither has growthmanship been thrown out of the window by the Government (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>growth ring,</B> <B>=annual ring.</B> <I>Ex. Growth rings are the layers of wood laid down by the cambium in successive periods (Fred W. Emerson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="growthstock">
<B>growth stock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in finance) stock of a company that is expected to grow. </DL>
<B>growthy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> growing well or fast. </DL>
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<B>groyne, </B>noun, verb, <B>groyned,</B> <B>groyning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a low wall built out into the water from a riverbank or ocean shore to prevent erosion by current or tide; groin. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to furnish with groynes; groin. </DL>
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<B>GR-S, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rubber produced by the copolymerization of butadiene and styrene. </DL>
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<B>grub, </B>noun, verb, <B>grubbed,</B> <B>grubbing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a wormlike form or larva of an insect. A grub is usually the soft, smooth, thick larva of a beetle. <DD><B> 2. </B>a dull, hard-working person; drudge. <BR> <I>Ex. this poor grub of literature (Thomas De Quincey).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) food. <BR> <I>Ex. How you'll relish your grub (Frederick Marryat).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to dig. <BR> <I>Ex. Pigs grub for roots.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to lead a life of hard work; toil; drudge. <BR> <I>Ex. For years, Galileo grubbed away in underpaid mathematical teaching posts without losing his love of learning or his abiding contempt of the ossified scholars of his time (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to search (for) or rummage about. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) to eat. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to root out of the ground; dig up. <BR> <I>Ex. It took the farmer weeks to grub the stumps on his land.</I> (SYN) uproot. <DD><B> 2. </B>to rid (ground) of roots, stumps, rocks, or other debris. <BR> <I>Ex. Grubbing and removal of top soil began on both toll road sites last week (Wall Street Journal).</I> (SYN) clear. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) to provide with food. </DL>
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<B>grubber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who grubs. <DD><B> 2. </B>an implement for breaking up ground, etc. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) an eater; feeder. </DL>
<A NAME="grubby">
<B>grubby, </B>adjective, <B>-bier,</B> <B>-biest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dirty; grimy; slovenly. <BR> <I>Ex. a grubby lot Of sooty sweeps (Thomas Hood). She was an exceptionally grubby girl--fat, sloppily dressed, and, like Willard, uncommunicative (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Western U.S.) infested with grubs, especially the botfly. <BR> <I>Ex. grubby cattle, grubby sheep.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>like a grub. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Dialect.) stunted; small. <BR> <I>Ex. grubby trees.</I> adv. <B>grubbily.</B> noun <B>grubbiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>grubstake, </B>noun, verb, <B>-staked,</B> <B>-staking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> food, equipment, and money supplied to a prospector on the condition of sharing in whatever he finds. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to supply with a grubstake. </DL>
<A NAME="grubstaker">
<B>grubstaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a prospector who is supplied with a grubstake. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who supplies a grubstake. </DL>
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<B>Grub Street,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a former street in London, where struggling writers lived (now called Milton Street). <DD><B> 2. </B>writers who write merely to earn money; hack writers. <BR> <I>Ex. He [Balzac] served a long apprenticeship in the labyrinth of Grub Street (Listener).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="grubstreet">
<B>grub-street, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or like hack writers or their work. </DL>
<A NAME="grubworm">
<B>grubworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the wormlike form or larva of an insect; grub. </DL>
<A NAME="grudge">
<B>grudge, </B>noun, verb, <B>grudged,</B> <B>grudging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> ill will; sullen feeling (against); dislike of long standing. <BR> <I>Ex. She has had a grudge against me ever since I disagreed with her. The Arians ... bore Athanasius a grudge (Thomas North). All over the country there is a grudge against La Paz, which could be construed as a grudge against the inadequacy and corruption of central government (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> (SYN) resentment. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to feel anger or dislike toward (a person) because of (something); envy the possession of. <BR> <I>Ex. He grudged me my little prize, even though he had won a bigger one.</I> (SYN) envy, begrudge. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give or let have unwillingly. <BR> <I>Ex. The mean man grudged his horse the food that it ate.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Obsolete.) to grumble; complain. noun <B>grudger.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="grudging">
<B>grudging, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> unwilling; reluctant. <BR> <I>Ex. His industry earned the grudging praise of his enemies (John R. Green).</I> adv. <B>grudgingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="grue">
<B>grue, </B>noun, verb, <B>grued,</B> <B>gruing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a shiver; shudder. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Scottish.) to feel horror; shudder; shiver. </DL>
<A NAME="gruel">
<B>gruel, </B>noun, verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-eling</B> or (especially British) <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a nearly liquid food made by boiling oatmeal or other cereal in water or milk. Gruel is often given to those who are sick and old. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar substance. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) punishment; defeat. <BR> <I>Ex. to get one's gruel. What have we to hope for? We may just as well take our gruel (Arthur Conan Doyle).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to tire out completely; exhaust. noun <B>grueler,</B> (especially British,) <B>grueller.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="grueling">
<B>grueling, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> very tiring; exhausting. <BR> <I>Ex. The marathon is a grueling contest.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an exhausting or very tiring experience. adv. <B>gruelingly.</B> </DL>
<B>gruesome, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>causing fear or horror; horrible; frightful; revolting. <BR> <I>Ex. The dim, mysterious half-light of the cellar falling in a gruesome way upon the misshapen bulk of a Chinese deity (Bret Harte).</I> (SYN) grisly. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Scottish.) ugly; hideous. Also, <B>grewsome.</B> adv. <B>gruesomely.</B> noun <B>gruesomeness.</B> </DL>
