Grope /(grōp)/

imp. & p. p. Groped; p. pr. & vb. n. Groping

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.

   To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life.

1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
2. To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.]

   Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.