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groin

-1 n. அரை, இடுப்பு, வயிறு தொடை சேருமிடம், (க-க.) இரு வளைவுமாடங்கள் சேரும் கட்டுமான இடைக்கோணம், கட்டுமான இடைக்கோணப்பட்டி, (வினை) கட்டுமான இடைக்கோணமமை, இடைக்கோணப்பட்டியுடன் கட்டு.


Groin, n. Etym: [F. groin, fr. grogner to grunt, L. grunnire.] Defn: The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer. Groin, v. i. Etym: [F. grogner to grunt, grumble.] Defn: To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bears that groined coatinually. Spenser. Groin, n. Etym: [Icel. grein distinction, division, branch; akin to Sw. gren, branch, space between the legs, Icel. greina to distinguish, divide, Sw. grena to branch, straddle. Cf. Grain a branch.] 1. (Anat.) Defn: The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen. 2. (Arch.) Defn: The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit. 3. (Math.) Defn: The surface formed by two such vaults. 4. A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle. [Eng.] Weale. Groin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Groined; p. pr. & vb. n. Groining.] (Arch.) Defn: To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.


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