GRU 
hey 
t 
ftrata of this itone that lie over the ore, there is alfoa large 
earth common among them ; t 
times diftinguifhed by the epithet white. 
feems the only name they have kept to any determinate fig- 
nification, for the 
OWERS, in Agriculture, a term provincially applied 
to farmers. 
GROWING, in Sea Language, denotes the direétion of e 
the cable from the fhip toward the anchors: thus, the cable 
grows on the itarboard bow, when it {tretches out forward 
on the ftarboard or right fide. 
GROWME, in our Old Writers, an engine to. ftretch 
woollen cloth after it is woven ; it is mentioned in the fta- 
tute 43 Edw. ITI. cap. ro. 
GROWTH Hatrpenny; a rate fo called, and paid in 
vee places for the tithe of every fat ox or other unfruitful 
Cattie. 
GRUAPET, in Geo raphy, a town of Hindooftan, in 
= reel 15 miles NNW. of Bomrauzapollam. 
U 
t 
ARI, in our Old Writers, the principal officers of 
the foreft in general. . 'The word comes ftom the old French 
Sruyer, which fignifies the fame. 
_ GRUB, Englith name. of the hexapode werms or 
ggots hatched from the eggs of beetles. (See ScARA- 
ea —- are an excellent bait for many _— of oo 
nang or the grayling, the afh-grub is to be preferred to 
all ie This ie plan milk re ae but round from head 
head. There is alfo another grub, 
and is longer and flenderer than the 
Sa red head, and two rows of legs all along the belly. 
te ing ufually frequent: the fame places, 
and it is not uncommon to take the trout, while fifhing for 
he o than they were at firlt ; but t 
Stub is always fo tender, tht it is difficult to make a 
ae , Mt. The beft method is to wrap it ina piece of itiff 
hair with the arming, leaving it ftanding aut about a itraw’s 
the hook, fo as to kee = grub 
uy Aipping off when baited: the horfe-hair that 
the hook is faflened to fhould be as white as poffible, that 
it may refemble the colour of the bait, and not be fut. 
(erica, the name «f a 
t 
from totally {li 
+ Grup, in 
duced from 
ot pro- 
large magg 
, dling gra a 
fit frequent ploughing, rolling, and the afr of limne in peett 
‘large proportions in its’ more Sails hae, wbich steal 
ae ova of a certain {pecies of infe€t; and which foft 
> of alarge fize, and frequently does great injury to —. 
re ea i fe ing upon: the roats of the 
GRU 
clears the land for feveral years, however it may be infefted? 
with this fort of grub. 
n the Farmer’s Ma 
zine it is ftated, that there is a 
fort of grubs “met wit i 
in wet fituations every year, in 
nearly the whole race pe 
ieved, very few remain to propagate the fpeciess unlefs in: 
feafons when the weather is uncommonly dry: during the 
whole of the period they remain in the aurelia ftate, as was. 
the cafe in 1798. A part of May, andthe whole of June,. 
paffed over with very little rain-; in that way, a great pro— 
portion of the eggs, depofitedin the arable lands,. furviveds 
and became grubs.” 
of their exiftence, except when t aurelia fta e, 
when cold and moift weather kills them. The whele of the 
grubs bred upon dry lands are of the moth tribe... One o 
the moft deftruétive of thefe’ comes into exiltence, if the 
the end of: February 
and continues increafing: in fize till the be. 
when it is:upawards of an inch saps eg an 
of aninch in-circumference.. It i 
av; 
yo. 
about one-third. 
black loam, at the 
out thirty-feven offsets,. 
-when: 
that there appeared little hopes of theirirecovery. Accor 
ingly, in a few days thereafter, they. were all dead.” He 
ftates, in addition, that, ‘ in feafons when they are.nume- 
. ese. rous,, 
