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Definition of Grounden
1. grind [v] - See also: grind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grounden
Literary usage of Grounden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... By the gude mail, baith halse and his craig baño Under the cheeks the grounden
swerd gart glide, ..."
2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... me to telle yow the names Of orpiment, brent bones, yren squames, That into
poudre grounden been ful smal? ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"And besie me to teilen you the names, As orpiment, brent bones, yren squames,
That into poudre grounden ben ful smal 1 And in an ..."
4. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy by Reginald Pecock (1860)
"grounden ... or senden into othere Scripturis of prophecie whiche grounden feith :
the oon of hem ..."
5. The Tale of the Man of lawe: the Pardoners tale ; the Second nonnes tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (1904)
"... me to telle yow the names Of orpiment, brent bones, yren squames, That into
poudre grounden been ful smal ? ..."
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