grounds
       n 1: your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to
            base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung
            cancer is very compelling" [syn: evidence]
       2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was
          a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, curtilage]
       3: a tract of land cleared for some special purposes
          (recreation or burial etc.)
       4: a justification for something existing or happening; "he had
          no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
          [syn: cause, reason]
       5: sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid [syn: dregs,
           settlings]