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Accommodation :: Accommodation (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended..

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.

Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain..

Aerial :: Aerial (a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants..

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Pignut :: Pignut (n.) See Groundnut (d).

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Depressed :: Depressed (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.

Cause :: Cause (v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing..

Rub :: Rub (v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground..

Causey :: Causey (n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground..

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Fundamental :: Fundamental (n.) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope..

Chase :: Chase (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace..

Base :: Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

Land :: Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Groundnut :: Groundnut (n.) A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste..

Parlor :: Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..

Reason :: Reason (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument..

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