Grope

Definition of Grope

Pronunciation: grōp

v. i.	1.	To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [imp. & p. p. Groped (grōpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.]
	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.
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. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. - Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).

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