[Y- 4, GRIND v.1], ground.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 131/2. Commolitus, ʓegrunde.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 171. To Abate þe Barli bred and þe Benes I-grounde.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1691. A sharpe ygrounde spere.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 13. Temper vp þine Almaundys þat þou hast y-grounde.
Ygrope, ME. pa. pple. of GROPE v.
Ygrounded [GROUND v.], grounded.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 921. So frendly and so wel ygrounded, Vpon al reason so wel yfounded.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 3942. Knowyng that … hyr compleynte … Was ygroundyd on folye.
1556. Lauder, Tractate of Kyngis, 191. Without kyngs Y-groundit be In Goddis wourd of verytie [etc.].
Ygrowe(n [GROW v.], grown.
c. 900. Wærferth, trans. Gregory’s Dial., III. xiii. (1900), 198. Swa fæste his heafod wæs ʓegrowen to ðam lichaman, swylce hit næfre of acorfen nære.
13[?]. K. Alis., 6491 (Laud MS.). Þer hij founde Wymmen growen out of þe grounde…. Somme weren to þe nauel ygrowe;… And summe weren ygrowe al out.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 53. This weache thikke and wel ygrowen was.
