Grope v. i. [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.   --Is. lix. 10.
     To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life.   --Buckminster.