grocer 
wholesale dealer (a grocer iu the mod. sense, 
2, being then called a spicer), = D. grassier; cf . 
G. grossirer = Dan. grosserer = Sw. grossor, < 
OF. grassier = Pr. grassier = Sp. grosero = Pg. 
groseiro = It. grossiero, < ML. grossarius, a 
wholesale dealer, < grossus (> OF. gros, etc.), 
great, gross: see gross, and cf. engrosser. Cf. 
equiv. ML. magnarius, a wholesale dealer, < L. 
magntis, great.] If. A wholesale dealer : same 
as engrosser, 1. 
The great galees of Venice and Florence 
Be well laden with things of complacence, 
All spicery and of grossers ware. 
Haklmjt's Voyages, I. 193. 
The Grocers merchants who, according to Herbert, re- 
ceived their name from the engrossing (buying up whole- 
sale) "all manner of merchandize vendible " were par- 
ticularly powerful. 
English Qttds (E. E. T. S-X Int., p. exit. 
2. A trader who deals in general supplies for 
the table and for household use. See grocery, 3. 
Grocers' Itch, a variety of eczema produced in gro- 
cers and persons working in sugar-refineries by the irri- 
tation of sugar. 
grocerly (gro'ser-li), a. [< grocer + -ly 1 .'] Ke- 
sembling or pertaining to grocers ; carrying on 
the grocers' trade. [Rare.] 
For some grocerly thieves 
Turn over new leaves, 
Without much amending their lives or their tea. 
flood, Tale of a Trumpet. 
grocery (gro'ser-i), n. ; pi. groceries (-iz). [A 
corrupted spelling of former grossery, < OF. 
grosserie, ML. grosserie, wholesale dealing, also 
wares sold by wholesale, a place where wares 
were sold at wholesale, < grossarius, a wholesale 
dealer : see grocer. ] If. The selling of or deal- 
ing in goods at wholesale; wholesale traffic. 
Cotgrave. 2f. Goods sold at wholesale, collec- 
tively. Cotgrave. 3. General supplies for the 
table and for household use, as flour, sugar, 
spices, coffee, etc. ; the commodities sold by 
grocers : now always in the plural. 
Many cart-loads of wine, grocery, and tobacco. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
We had at last the satisfaction of seeing him mounted 
upon the colt, with a deal box before him to carry gro- 
ceries in. Goldsmith, Vicar, xii. 
4. A grocer's shop. [U. S.] 5. A drinking- 
shop. [Southwestern U. S.] 
Every other house in Santa Fe was a grocery, . . . con- 
tinually disgorging reeling, drunken men. 
Ruxton, Mexico and Rocky Mountains, p. 190. 
6t. Small money; halfpence and farthings. 
Bailey, 1727. 
groceryman (gro'ser-i-man), .; pi. grocery- 
men (-men). A retail dealer in groceries; a 
grocer. [U. S.] 
grochet, v. A Middle English form of grudge 1 . 
groddeckite (grod'ek-it), . [After A. von 
Ch-oddeck.~) A zeolitic mineral allied to gmeli- 
nite, found at St. Andreasberg in the Harz. 
grofH, gruff, adv. [ME., also groff; also in the 
phrases a gruf, on groufe, one the j/ro/fe, with the 
same sense, < Icel. grufa in the phrases Uggja a 
grufu (= Sw. dial, ligga & gruve, lie groveling), 
symja a grufu, swim on one's belly; cf. grufa 
(= Norw. gruva = Sw. grufva), crouch, grovel, 
grufla, grovel. Hence groveling, adv., and 
through that the verb grovel: see these words.] 
Flat on the ground; with the face on the 
ground, or on any object ; so as to lie prone ; 
forward and down. 
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The vitrifying ingredients usually added to the terra 
cotta clays are pure white sand, old pottery, and fire- 
bricks finely pulverized, and clay previously burned, 
termed grog. C. T. Dams, Bricks and Tiles, p. 313. 
grog (grog), t-. t. pret. and pp. grogged, ppr. 
grogging. [< grog, n.'} 1. To make into grog 
by mixing with water, as spirits. 2. To ex- 
tract grog from, as the wood of an empty spirit- 
cask, by pouring hot water into it. [British 
excise slang.] 
grog-blossom (grog'blos"um), . A redness or 
an eruption of inflamed pimples on the nose or 
face of a man who drinks ardent spirits to ex- 
cess. Also called rum-blossom, toddy-blossom. 
[Slang.] 
A few grog-blossoms marked the neighbourhood of his 
nose - T. Hardy, The Three Strangers. 
groggery (grog'er-i), n.; pi. groggeries (-iz). 
[< grog + -ery.~] A tavern or drinking-place, 
especially one of a low and disreputable char- 
acter; a ^rog-shop; a gin-mill. [U.S.] 
The clumsy electric lights depending before the beer 
saloon and the groggery, the curious confusion of spruce- 
ness and squalor in the aspect of these latter. 
Hew Princeton Rev., VI. 81. 
grogginess (grog'i-nes), n. 1. The state of be- 
ing groggy, or somewhat under the influence of 
liquor; tipsinessj the state of being unsteady 
or stupid from drink. Hence 2. In farriery, 
a tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse 
or a weakness in the fore legs, which causes 
him to move in a hobbling, staggering manner, 
often produced by much work on hard ground 
or pavements. 
groggy (grog'i), . [< grog + -y 1 .] 1. Over- 
come with grog, so as to stagger or stumble; 
tipsy. [Slang.] Hence 2. In farriery, mov- 
ing in an uneasy, hobbling manner, owing to 
tenderness of the feet : said specifically of a 
horse that bears wholly on its heels. 
"Ill be shot if . . . [the horse] is not groggy!" said the 
Baron. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 93. 
3. In pugilism, acting or moving like a man 
overcome with grog; stupefied and staggering 
from blows and exhaustion. 
Cuff coming up full of pluck, but quite reeling and 
groggy, the Fig-merchant put in his left as usual on his 
adversary's nose, and sent him down for the last time. 
Thackeray. 
grogramt, See grogram. 
grogram (grog'ram), n. [Formerly grograme, 
grogeram, grogran, grogeran, grogerane, gro- 
grain, grograine; < OF. gros-grain, < gros, 
coarse, gross, + grain, grain: see gross and 
grain 1 . Cf. gros-grain.] A coarse textile fab- 
ric formerly in use, made originally of silk and 
mohair, afterward of silk and wool, and usual- 
ly stiffened with gum. 
I of this mind am, 
Your only wearing is your grogeram. 
Donnt, Satires, iv. 
groinery 
2. In arch., the curved intersection or arris of 
simple vaults crossing each other at any angle. 
Medieval Groins in early lath century vaulting. A, A, groins. 
(Fjom VioIlet-le-Duc's " Diet, de 1' Architecture.") 
In pointed vaults the groins almost always rest upon or 
are covered by ribs. See ard and rib. Also called groining. 
On the north outside, beyond the windows, are many 
marks of recesses, groins, arms, on the remains of some 
other room. Pennant, London, House of Commons, p. 124. 
3. A wooden breakwater or f rame of woodwork 
constructed across a beach between low and 
high water to retain sand or mud thrown up by 
the tide, and to form a protection from the force 
of the waves to the land lying behind it. Also 
spelled, archaically, groyne. [Eng.] 
The name of groin is still applied in the metaphorical 
sense to the frame of woodwork employed on our southern 
coast to arrest the drifts of shingle, which accumulates 
against it as a small promontory Jutting into the sea. 
y. and <j., 6th ser., XI. 416. 
In the majority of cases such arresting of shingle is 
caused by building out groynes, or by the construction 
of piers and harbour-months which act as large groynes. 
Nature, XXX. 522. 
groin 1 (groin), v. t. [< groin 1 , .] In arch., to 
form into groins; construct in a system of 
groins. 
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 
Wrought in a sad sincerity. 
E 
I purpose to send by this bearer, Samuel Gostlin, a piece 
of Turkey grogram, about ten yards, to make you a suit. 
Vfinthrop, Hist. New England, I. 411. 
And whan this abbot had this wonder sein, 
His salte teres trilled adoun as reyne : 
And groff he fell al platte upon the ground. 
Chaucer, Prioress's Tale (ed. Tyrwhitt, 1. 13605). 
On (the) groft, a graft. Same as gro/l, gruf. 
Than Gawayne gyrde to the gome, and one the gro/e fallis ; 
Alles his grefe was graythede, his grace was no bettyre ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.\ L 3851. 
grof 2 t, grofft, a. Obsolete forms of gruff 1 . 
groflingest, adv. See groveling. 
grog (grog), n. [So called in allusion to "Old 
Grog," a nickname given to Admiral Vernon, 
who introduced the beverage (about 1745), be- 
cause he wore grogram breeches (or, accord- 
ing to another account, "a grogram cloak in 
foul weather").] 1. Originally, a mixture of 
spirit and water served out to sailors, called, 
according to the proportion of water, two-water 
grog, three-water grog, etc. 
When Florence, looking into the little cupboard, took 
out the case-bottle and mixed a perfect glass of grog for 
him, unasked, ... his ruddy nose turned pale. 
Dickens, Dombey and Son, xlix. 
Hence 2. Strong drink of any sort : used, like 
rum, as a general term and in reprobation. 
Compare groggery. 3. See the extract. 
The servitors wash them, rub them, stretch out their 
joints, and cleanse their skinnes with a piece of rough 
grogeram. Sandys, Travailea, p. 54. 
grogram-yarn (grog'ram-yarn), n. A coarse 
yarn of wool or silk, formerly used as the woof 
of various fabrics. 
Grograme-Yarne, of which is made yarnes, Grograms, 
Burettes, sllke-mohers, and many others, late new-invent- 
ed st iitics. 
L. Roberts, Treasure of Trafflke, quoted in Drapers' Diet 
The Bosom is open to the Breast, and imbroidered with 
black or red Silk, or Grogram Yarn, two Inches broad on 
each side the Breast, and clear round the Neck. 
Dumpier, Voyages, II. ii. 114. 
grogrant, n. See grogram. 
grog-shop (grog'shop), n. A place where grog 
or other spirituous bquor is sold ; a dram-shop. 
I saw at least fifty people, more or less intoxicated, in 
the course of a short walk one afternoon. The grog-shops, 
however, are rigidly closed at six o'clock on Saturday 
evening, and remain so until Monday morning. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 338. 
groin 1 (groin), n. [A corruption of earlier grine 
(nsjoist of earlier jist, or perhaps by confusion 
with groin*, the snout of a swine), grine (for- 
merly also gryne) being itself a corruption of 
grain?, the fork of a tree or of a river, the 
groin: see grain 2 .] 1. In anat., the fold or hol- 
lo w of the body on either side of the belly where 
the thigh joins the trunk ; the oblique depres- 
sion between the abdominal and the femoral 
region; the inguinal region or inguen, corre- 
sponding to the axilla or armpit. 
Are you not hurt i' the groin? methonght, he made a 
shrewd thrust at your belly. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 
tmerson, The Problem. 
groin 2 t (groin), v. i. [< ME. groinen, groynen, 
murmur, lit. grunt, < OF. grogner, groigner, F. 
grogner = Pr. gronhir, gronir = Sp. grunir = 
Pg. grunhir = It. grugnire, grugnare, grunt, < 
L. grunnire, grunt : see grunt.] 1. To grunt, as 
a pig; growl. Kennett. 2. To murmur; grum- 
ble ; sound rumblingly. 
Whether so that he loure or groyne. 
Rom. ojf the Rose, L 7049. 
The murmure and the cherles rebellynge, 
The groyning, and the prive empoysonynge. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1602. 
Fro the loewe erthe shal groyne thi speche. 
Wyclif, Isa. xxix. 4 (Oxf.). 
groin 2 (groin), n. [< ME. groin, groyn, < OF. 
groing, F. groin = Pr. groing, grong, m., groin- 
gna, f., = OPg. gruin = It. grugno, frowning, 
snout, muzzle; from the verb: see groin 2 , v. i.] 
If. Grumbling; pouting; discontent. 
If she, for other encheson, 
Be wroth, than schalt thow have a groan anon. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 349. 
2. The snout of a swine ; a snout; nose. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
He likeueth a fayre womman, that is a fool of her body, 
to a ryng of gold that were in the groyn of a sowe. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
groin-arch (groin'arch), n. A groin-rib. 
groin-centering (groin ' sen 'ter- ing), re. In 
groining without ribs, the centering of timber 
extended during construction under the whole 
surface ; in ribbed or groined work, the center- 
ing for the stone ribs, which alone need sup- 
port until their arches are closed, after which 
the supports for the filling of the spandrils 
are sustained by the ribs themselves. 
groined (groind), a. In arch., having groins; 
showing the curved lines resulting from the 
intersection of two semicylinders or arches. 
See cut under groin 1 . 
The cloisters, with their coupled windows, simple tra- 
ceries, and groint'.d roofs, are very beautiful. 
The Century, XXXV. 705. 
Groined celling, groined vaulting. See groini, 2, and 
vaulting. 
groinert, [ME. groynere; < groiift + -er 1 .'] 
A murmurer; a tale-bearer. 
The groynere withdrawen [Latin susurrone retracto, 
Vulgate], striues togidere resten. Wyclif, Prov. xxvi. 20. 
groinery (groi'ner-i), n. [< groin 1 + -cry.'] 
Same as groiniixj. 
