grout 
mortar poured into the joints of masonry and 
brickwork. 
A casing of stone outside, a foot and a half thick, also 
covered the rubble and grout work of Ruf us. 
Harper's May., LXIX. 437. 
2. A finishing or setting coat of flue stuff for 
ceilings. E. H. Knight. 
II. a. Made with or consisting of grout. 
Grout wall, a foundation or cellar-wall formed of con- 
crete and small stones, usually between two boards set on 
edge, which are removed and raised higher as the concrete 
hardens. 
grout'- 1 (grout), v. t. [< grout*, .] To fill up 
or form with grout, as the joints or spaces be- 
tween stones ; use as grout. 
If Roman, we should see here foundations of boulders 
budded in concrete and tiles laid in courses, as well as 
ashlar facing to ijrouted insides. 
Athenaeum, Jan. 21, 1888, p. 91. 
The mortar being grouted into the joints and between 
the two contiguous courses of front and common brick. 
C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 51. 
grout 3 (grout), v. t. [Perhaps 'root in the 
mud,' < grout 1 , ., 4.] To bore with the snout, 
or dig up like a hog. Hulliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
grout 4 (grout), a. A dialectal form of great, 
seen iu composition, as in grouthead, groutnoll. 
grout-ale (grout'al), . An alcoholic drink in 
the south of England, apparently a variety of 
beer made from malt which is burned or roasted 
very brown in an iron pot, and fermented by 
means of the barrn which first rises in the keeve. 
grouter (grou'ter), n. A poor person who 
drinks only the wort of the last running. See 
grout 1 , 2. 1'egge. [Prov. Eng.] 
grouthead (grout'hed), n, [Also written growt- 
head; < grouft, a dial, form of great, + head.] 
A stupid fellow; a blockhead. [Prov. Eng.] 
Though sleeping one hour refresheth his song, 
Yet trust not Hob Grouthead, for sleeping too long. 
Tusser, May's Husbandry, xxxii. 
groutheaded (gi-out'hed'ed), a. [< grouthead + 
-erf 2 .] 1. Stupid. 2. Stupidly noisy. [Prov. 
Eng. in both senses.] 
grouting (grou'ting), H. [Verbal n. of grou1%,v.~\ 
In building : (a) The process of filling in or fin- 
ishing with grout, (b) The grout thus filled in. 
groutnollt (grout'nol), n. [Also groutnol, grout- 
nowl, growtnoul, groutnold, grutnold;. < grout*, a 
dial, form of great, + noil, head.] A stupid fel- 
low ; a blockhead ; a grouthead. 
Growte-noiele, come to the king. 
Proinos a-nd Cassandra, p. 81. (Hattiwell.) 
That same dwarfe's a pretty boy, but the squire's a 
groutnold. Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, ii. 
grouty (grou'ti), a. [< grout*- + -y*.] 1. Thick, 
muddy, or dreggy, as liquor. 2. Sulky; surly; 
cross. [Colloq.] 
The sun, I sometimes think, is a little grouty at sea, es- 
pecially at high noon, feeling that he wastes his beams on 
those fruitless furrows. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 183. 
At home, the agreeable companion became at once a 
grouty grandson. J. T. Trmubridge, Coupon Bonds, p. 204. 
grouzet, v. t. [Origin obscure.] To devour 
noisily. Davies. 
Like swine under the oaks, we grouze up the akecorns, 
and snouk about for more, and eat them too. 
Bp. Sanderson, Works, III. 187. 
grove 1 (grov), n. [< ME. grove, < AS. grdf, a 
grove, a small wood (> ML. grava, gravea, gravi- 
;, a j-rove) ; connected perhaps with AS. grief 
or grwfe, a bush (L. duntus), > ME. greve, early 
mod. E. greave'2, q. v. Usually derived from 
AS. grafan, E. grace 1 , dig, "a grove being orig. 
an alley cut out in a wood," or "a glade, or lane 
cut through trees"; but neither r/ra/nor graife 
is derivable, phonetically, from grafan (the de- 
rivative from grafan, in this sort, being *grof, 
E. groove), and there is no proof that grove ever 
had any meaning other than its present one.] 
A group of trees of indefinite extent, but not 
large enough to constitute a forest; especial- 
ly, such a group considered as furnishing shade 
for avenues or walks ; a small wood free from 
underbrush. 
The hare . . . secheth pathes to the grove. 
Owl and Nightingale, 1. 380. 
Grove, lytyl wode, Incus. Prompt. Pan., p. 215. 
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; 
Others, whose fruit, burnish d with golden rind, 
Hung amiable. Milton, P. L., iv. 248. 
The groves were God's flrst temples. 
Bryant, Forest Hymn. 
[In the authorized version of the Bible grove is used er- 
roneously (a) As a translation (following the Septuagint 
and Vulgate) of the Hebrew word Asherah (pi. Asherim). 
The revised version retains Anherah, inserting "or obelisk" 
in the margin. It is now commonly understood as mean- 
ing a divinity or an image of a divinity worshiped by lewd 
rites, and as a variation in form of the name Astarte or 
Antitaroth. 
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And he [Manasseh] set a graven image of the grove [re- 
vised version, "of Asherah"] that he had made in the 
house. 2 Ki. xxi. 7. 
(b) As a translation of the Hebrew word eshel in Gen. x.\i. 
33, rendered tree in 1 Sam. xxxi. 13, and in both passages 
in the revised version tamarixk tree.] The groves Of 
Academe, the shaded walks of the Academy at Athens ; 
hence, any scene or course of philosophical or learned pur- 
suits. See academy. 
Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour 
amongst the groves of Academe Pen now found his way. 
Thackeray, Pendennis. 
= Syn. W oodtf, Park, etc. See forest. 
grove 2 (grov), n. Same as groove, 3. 
Grove battery. See cell, 8. 
grovecropt, A grove. Davies. 
In town's myd center theare sprouted a groavecrop. 
Stanihurst, JEneid, f. 424. 
grovel (grov'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. groveled or 
grovelled, ppr. groveling or grovelling. [Formed 
from the adv. groveling, taken for the ppr. of a 
supposed verb, as darkle similarly from dark- 
ling, adv.'] 1. To creep or crawl on the earth, 
or with the face and body bent to the ground ; 
lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on 
the earth ; especially, to lie prostrate in abject 
humility, fear, etc. 
Gaze on, and grovel on thy face. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. 
No coarse and blockish God of acreage 
Stands at thy gate for thee to grovel to. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
Man . . . grovels on the ground as a miserable sinner, 
and stands up to declare that he is the channel of Divine 
inspiration. 
Leslie Stephen, Apology lor Plain Speaking, p. 307. 
Hence 2. To have a tendency toward or take 
pleasure in low or base things; be low, abject, 
or mean; be morally depraved. 
Let low and earthly Souls grovel 'till they have work'd 
themselves six Foot deep into a Grave. 
Congrece, Old Batchelor, i. 1. 
Let those deplore their doom, 
Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn. 
Beattie, Minstrel, i. 
Compared 
With him who grovels, self-debarred 
From all that lies within the scope , 
Of holy faith and Christian hope. 
Wordsworth, To Lady Fleming. 
groveler, groveller (grov'l-er), . One who 
grovels; a person of a base, mean, groveling 
disposition. 
groyelingt, grovellinat (grov'l -ing), adv. 
[Dial, grumblings; < ME. groveling, grovelinge, 
and (with adv. gen. -es) grovclinges, groflyngcs, 
grovelonges, on the face, prone, prostrate, with 
adv. suffix -ling, -long, as in buckling, darkling, 
headlong, etc., < ME. grof, groff, grttf, on the 
face: see grof 1 , gruf."] Face downward, in a 
prone or prostrate position. 
Gi-ovelynge to his fete thay felle. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1119. 
Streight downe againe herselfe, in great despight, 
She groveling threw to ground. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 45. 
groveling, grovelling (grov'l-ing), p. a. [Ppr. 
of grovel, v.; orig. only an adverb: see grovel- 
ing, adv.] 1. Lying with the face downward; 
lying prone ; crawling ; abject. 
How instinct varies in the grovelling swine ! 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 221. 
2. Mean ; low ; without dignity or respect. 
No grovelling jealousy was in her heart. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 
So groveling became the superstition of his followers 
that they drank of the water in which he had washed, and 
treasured it as a divine elixir. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 67. 
= 8yn. 2. Abject, Low, Mean, etc. See abject. 
Grove's gas-battery. See battery. 
grovett, [< grove 1 + -et.'] A little grove. 
Divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging 
grounds thereof. 
Beaumont, Masque of Inner-Temple, Arg. 
grovy (gro'vi), a. [< grove 1 + -y 1 .'] Pertaining 
or relating to groves; sylvan. [Bare.] 
In the dry season these Grow?/ dwellings are very pleas- 
ant, f Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 45. 
grow (gro), v. ; pret. grew, pp. grmcn, ppr. grow- 
ing. [< ME. growen (pret. grew, greu, pi. grcw- 
en, greowen, pp. growen, growe), < AS. growan 
(pret. greow, pi. greowon, pp. growen), sprout, 
grow (of vegetable growth, while weaxan, E. 
wax 1 , increase, is a general term for 'in- 
crease'), = OFries. growa, groia = D. groeijen, 
grow, = OHG. gruoan, MHG. griien, griiejen, be 
green. = Icel. groa = Sw. Dan. gro, grow. Hence 
green 1 , and perhaps gorse, q. v. ; to the same ult. 
root belongs prob. grass, q. v.] I. intrans. 1 . To 
increase by a natural process of development 
or of enlargement, as a living organism or any 
growable 
of its parts; specifically, to increase by assimi- 
lation of nutriment, as animals or plants. 
In that Cytee, a man cast an brennynge Dart in wratthe 
aftir oure Lord, and the Hed smot in to the Eerthe, and 
wax grene, and it gfowed to a gret Tree. 
tlandeville, Travels, p. 117. 
In his gardyn groit'ed swich a tree, 
on which he seyde how that hise wyves thre 
Hanged hemself for herte despitous. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 759. 
He [a Nazarite] . . . shall let the locks of the hair of 
his head grow. Mum. vi. 5. 
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow 
More than my brother : "Ay," quoth my uncle Gloster, 
" Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace." 
Shak., Rich. III., ii. 4. 
2. To be enlarged or extended, in general ; in- 
crease; wax: as, a growing reputation ; to grow 
in grace or in beauty. 
The Day grows on ; I must no more be seen. 
Hi-mi, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, i. 2. 
Several of the wisest among the nobles began to appre- 
hend the growing power of the people. 
Swift, Nobles and Commons, iii. 
In all things yrew his wisdom and his wealth. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 315. 
Herein lay the root of the matter ; the third England 
was not made, but grew. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 178. 
3. To be changed from one state to another ; 
become; be carried or extended, as to a con- 
dition or a result : as, to grow pale ; to grow 
indifferent; to grow rich; the wind grew to a 
tempest. 
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, 
That he is grown so great 1 Shak., J. C., i 2. 
I rather now had hope to shew you how love 
By his accesses grows more natural. 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, ii. 2. 
Four of the commissioners gave them a meeting, which 
grew to this issue. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 201. 
His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied. 
Sleele, Spectator, No. 2. 
Laws . . . left to grow obsolete, even without the ne- 
cessity of abrogation. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, i. 
(In this sense the notion of 'increase* sometimes disap- 
pears, and the change may involve actual decrease : as, to 
grow small ; to grow less.] 
4. To become attached or conjoined by or as 
if by a process of growth. 
By Heaven, I'll grow to the ground here, 
And with my sword dig up my grave, and fall in 'i, 
Unless thou grant me ! 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, ii. 3. 
There first I saw the man I lov'd, Valerio ; 
There was acquainted, there my soul grew to him 
And his to me. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, v. 3. 
5. yaut., to lead: as, the chain grows out on 
the port bow To grow on, to gain in the estimation 
of ; become better appreciated by. 
Gerald's eyes were a little misty as the earth fell on the 
coffin. . . . The old man had grown on him wonderfully, 
and he missed him more than he could have believed pos- 
sible. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 460. 
To grow out Of. (a) To issue from, as plants from the 
soil ; result from, as an effect from a cause. 
These wars have grown out of commercial considera- 
tions. A. Hamilton. 
All the capitals found in India are either such as grew 
out of the necessities of their own wooden construction, 
or were copied from bell-shaped forms. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 174. 
(b) To pass beyond or away from in development ; leave 
behind ; give up : as, to grow out of one's early beliefs or 
follies. To grow to, to proceed or advance to ; come to ; 
incline or tend to. 
Then read the names of the actors, and so grow on to a 
point. Shak., M. N. D., L 2. 
To grow together, to become united by growth, as sev- 
ered parts of flesh or plants. To grow up. () To ad- 
vance in growth; complete the natural growth ; attain 
maturity. 
We grow up in vanity and folly. Abp. Wake. 
There were the baillie's wife, . . . andthebaillie's*/rown- 
up son. Dickens, Pickwick, xlix. 
We begin to be grown-up people. We cannot always 
remain in the pleasant valley of childhood. 
H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 391. 
His sons grow up that bear his name, 
Some grow to honour, some to shame. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
(6) To take root ; spring up ; arise : as, a hostile feeling 
grew up in the community. To let the grass grow 
under one's feet. See grass. 
H. trans. To cause to grow; cultivate; pro- 
duce; raise: as, a farmer grows large quanti- 
ties of wheat. 
This will cause him to put out of his heart all envy, ha- 
tred, and malice, and grow in the same all amity, friend- 
ship, and concord. Cranmer. 
growable (gro'a-bl), a. [< grow + -able.] 
Capable of growing or extending, or of being 
grown or raised. [Rare.] 
