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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grope \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. ).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grope \Grope\ (gr[=o]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groped}
(gr[=o]pt); p. pr & vb n. {Groping}.] [OE. gropen, gropien
grapien AS gr[=a]pian to touch, grope, fr gr[imac]pan 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
grope
v 1: feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her
glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: {fumble}]
2: search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the
connection"
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