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verb

Grope v. t.

To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

To examine; to test; to sound. (Obs.) "Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe."

Grope v. i. (past & past part. groped; pres. part. groping)

To feel with or use the hands; to handle. (Obs.)

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." "To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life."

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Etymology of 'Grope'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grope" Quotes from Famous Books

... sufficient number of trials—and over and over again if the trials are repeated often enough. For example, if a million grains of corn, of which a single one was red, were all placed in a pile, and a blindfolded person were required to grope in the pile, select a grain, and then put it back again, the chances would be a million to one against his drawing out the red grain. If drawing it meant he should die, a sensible person would give himself no concern at having to draw the grain. The probability ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... the horrid, crumbling slope! It breathes up damp and fust! What man would for his lost loves grope Amid the ...

— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

... hands began to grope wistfully about as if they sought something—she had been blind some hours. The end was come; all knew it. With a great sob Hester gathered her to her breast, crying, "Oh, my child, my darling!" A rapturous light broke in the dying girl's face, for it was mercifully vouchsafed her to ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... with what pertinacity I grope about old alleys, old courts, by-lanes, and unfrequented corners—in search of what is curious, or precious, or rare in the book way. But ere we touch that enchanting chord, let us proceed according to the plan laid down. First therefore for printing-offices. Of ...

— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... relieved to find it dark, and to all appearance, untenanted. He drew a long breath. Here he was, home again in safety, and this should be his last folly as certainly as it had been his first. The matches stood on a little table by the bed, and he began to grope his way in that direction. As he moved, his apprehensions grew upon him once more, and he was pleased, when his foot encountered an obstacle, to find it nothing more alarming than a chair. At last he touched curtains. From the position ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

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