Groov"ing (?), n. The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or
collection of grooves.
Grope (grp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped (grpt); p. pr. & vb. n.
Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. grpian to touch, grope,
fr. grpan 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.
Grope, v. t. 1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our
way at midnight.