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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
GRUB, v.i. To dig; to be occupied in digging.
GRUB, v.t. To dig; mostly followed by up. To grub up, is to dig up by the roots with an instrument; to root out by digging, or throwing out the soil; as, to grub up trees, rushes or sedge.
GRUB, n. [from the Verb.] A small worm; particularly, a hexapod or six-footed worm, produced from the egg of the beetle, which is transformed into a winged insect.
1913 Definition
To dig in or under the ground,
generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to
be occupied in digging.
To drudge; to do menial work.
Richardson. To
dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by
up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin. Hare. To supply with food.
[Slang]
Dickens. The larva of an insect, especially of a
beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of
Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
Yet your butterfly was a grub. Shak. A short, thick man; a dwarf.
[Obs.]
Carew. Victuals; food.
[Slang]
Halliwell.
Grub ax or axe, a kind of mattock used in grubbing up roots, etc. -- Grub breaker. Same as Grub hook (below). -- Grub hoe, a heavy hoe for grubbing. -- Grub hook, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps, breaking roots, etc. -- Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street. I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays. Gap. | ||||||||
