grunt 
Two or three old men answered, l>y nodding their heads, 
and giving a kind of yrunt, signillcant, as I thought, of 
approbation. Cook, Voyages, II. iii. 8. 
2. A fish of the family Htrmulnnidiv, as those 
of the genera Htemulon and Ortltoprixtis: so 
called from the noise they make when hauled 
Black Grunt (Hamilton 
out of the water. Also called pig-fash and growl- 
er for the same reason. See redmoiith Wnite 
grunt. Same as capeuna. 
gmnter (grun'tfcr), n. [< ME. gruntare; < 
i/nint + -ei-l.] 1. One that grunts. (o)Ahog. 
A draggled mawkin, . . . 
That tends her bristled grnnters in the sludge. 
Tennijfon, Princess, v. 
2. An iron rod with a hook at the end, used by 
founders. 
gruntingly (grun'ting-li), adv. With grunting 
or murmuring. Imp. Diet. 
grunting-OX (grun'ting-oks), . The yak, Poe- 
phayus yrunniens. 
grun'tle' (grun'tl). v. i. [Freq. of grunt. Cf. 
disgruntle.] 1. To grunt. [Rare.] 
Pensive in mud they wallow all alone, 
And snore and gruntle to each other's moan. 
Buckingham, Rehearsal, i. 1-. 
2t. To be sulky. 
To powt, lowre, gruntle, or grow sullen. Cotgrave. 
gruntle (grun'tl), n. [Sc., dim. of grunt. Cf. 
gruntle, .] 1. A grunting sound. 2. A snout. 
gruntling (grunt'ling), n. [< grunt + -ling.] 
A young hog. 
But come, my gruntling, when thou art full fed, 
Forth to the butchers stall thou must be led. 
A Book for Bays and Girls (1686), p. 32. (Halliwell.) 
grunyie, grunzie (grun'ye), n. Scotch forms 
of groin, 2. 
Gruoidese (grij-oi'de-e), n. pi. [NL., < Grus + 
-oidece.] A superfamily of birds, the cranes, 
rails, and their allies : a synonym of Alectori- 
des, Paludicolce, or Geranoinorphw. 
gruppetto (grop-pet'to), n. [It., dim. of grup- 
po : see gruppo.] Same as gruppo. 
gruppo (grop'po), , [It.,=E.flrow/>l, q.v.] In 
music: (a) A group or division, (ft) A trill or 
shake ; a relish. 
Grus (grus), n. [L., a crane.] 1. The typical 
genus of Gruidtf, containing most of the spe- 
cies of cranes, of maximum size, white or gray 
in color, with crestless and partly denuded 
head, 12-feathered tail, flowing inner seconda- 
ries, and enlarged inner claw. The common crane 
of Europe is G. emerea, to which corresponds the brown 
crano or sand-hill crane of America, G. canadewut or G. pra- 
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with some M inches of windpipe, nearly half of which is 
i-iiiled in an excavation in the breast-bone. See mMWl. 
2. Inastron., a southern constellation, between 
Aquarius and Pisces australis. It is one of those 
constellations introduced by the navigators of the six- 
teenth century, 
grush (grush), v. t. A variant of i/rudge-. 
[Scotch.] 
grushie (grush'i ),. Thick; of thriving growth. 
[Scotch.] 
Grusian (gro'si-an), (i. and n. [< Russ. Gru- 
ziyu, Georgia, +"-.] Same as Georgian 2 . 
grutt, " A Middle English form of grouft. 
gruta n. Plural of grutitm. 
grutcn (gruch), r. The earlier form of grudge*, 
still in dialectal use. 
grutcher, grutching. Same as grudger, grudg- 
ing. 
griitten (grut'n). Past participle of greet?. 
[Scotch.] 
grutum (gro'tum), n. ; pi. gruta (-ta). [NL., < 
ML. grutum, grit : see grit 1 , grout 1 .] In pathol., 
a small hard tubercle of the skin, particularly 
of the face, formed by a retention of the secre- 
tion in a sebaceous gland. Also called milium, 
iHiliary tubercle, and pearly tubercle. 
Gruyere (gro-yar'), n. [From Gruyeres, a small 
town in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.] 
A kind of French and Swiss cheese. See Gru- 
yere cheese, under cheese^. 
gry 1 (gri), v. i. A dialectal variant of grue. 
gry 2 (gri), H. ; pi. gries (griz). [L. gry (in Plau- 
tus, where recent editions print it as Gr.), the 
least trifle, < Gr. ypv, always with preceding 
negative, 'not a bit, not a morsel, not a sylla- 
ble ' ; commonly explained as lit. a grunt, the 
noise made by a pig (cf . Gr. ypvtof, later ypvh- 
/.of, a pig, ypifytv, grumble, mutter); but He- 
sychius and others say that ypii was prop, the 
dirt under the nail, and so anything utterly in- 
significant. Sc. gru, a particle, an atom, ap- 
pears to be taken from the Gr.] 1. A mea- 
sure equal to one tenth of a line of a philosoph- 
ical foot. It was never in general use. 
The longest of all [these horny substances] was that on 
the middle of the right hand, when I saw him, which was 
three inches and nine grys long, and one inch seven lines 
in girt. Locke, Letter to Boyle, June 16, 1679. 
2. Anything very small or of little value. 
[Rare.] 
grydet, v- An obsolete spelling of gride. 
gryfont, . An obsolete spelling of griffin. 
grylle (gril), . [NL., said to be from grylle, 
the native name in the Swedish island of Goth- 
land.] A name of the Greenland sea-dove or 
black guillemot, Urio or Cephas grylle : made by 
Brandt in 1836 a generic name of the same. 
Gryllidae (gril'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Gryllus + 
-ida;.~\ A family of saltatorial orthopterous in- 
sects; the crickets. 
They are characterized by 
a somewhat cylindrical 
body ; a large vertical 
head with elliptical eyes ; 
long thready antenna; ; 
wings, when present, net- 
veined and lying flat, the 
anterior ovate, the poste- 
rior triangular and fold- 
ing like a fan ; highly de- 
veloped genital annature, 
in the form of anal styles 
often almost as long as 
the body ; a long, cylin- 
dric, curved (upward) ovi- 
positor; and legs short, 
often spinose, and vari- 
able in characters. The 
Gryllida! are widely dis- 
tributed, and some of 
them are among the most 
plentiful of insects. Also 
called Achetidce. 
G-string 
pig': see gry 2 .'] A genus of crickets, as G. ab- 
hri'rititits, giving name to the family (1 njlli iin : 
same as Aclteta. See cut under Gryllida;. 
grypanian (gri-pa'ni-an), a. [< NL. i/rii/Kiiii- 
iiui (UK. rostrum), a hooked beak (Illiger, 1811), 
< Gr. ypmavtav, neut. of jpvirdvios, bent (ap- 
plied to an old man bowed by years), < ypvirof, 
hooked, curved around, as the nose, a beak, 
claws, etc.] In ornitli., bent at the end, and 
there more or less hooked or toothed, or both, 
as the beak of some birds. The ordinary denl i- 
rostral beak, as of a thrush, shrike, or flycatch- 
er, is grypanian. [Rare.] 
Bill notched or grypanian, i. e. with the culmen nearly 
straight, bent at the end in an arched curve, acuminate, 
generally incised at the sides. 
A. B. Sharpe, Cat. B, Brit. Museum, iv. 1879, p. 6. 
grype 1 t, v. An obsolete spelling of gripe 1 . 
\ n. An obsolete variant of grip 2 . 
D ~f, n. An obsolete spelling of gripe 3 . 
* jphaaa (gri-fe'a), . [NL-, < LL. gryplms for 
L. gryps, a griffin V see griffin.] A genus of fossil 
oysters, of the family Ostrmd<e, notable for the 
great thickness of the shell and the inequality 
of the valves, the right one being very large 
!il - a prominent curved umbo. 
brate animals, supposed to be intermediate be- 
tween birds and mammals, composed of extinct 
saurians, such as ichthyosaurs and pterodac- 
tyls, together with monotrematous mammals, 
but having no characters by which it can be 
defined. J. Wagler, 1830. 
Gryphinae (gri-fi'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Gryphus 
+ - ina>. ] 1 . A subfamily of American vultures : 
same as Cathartina;. 2. Same as Grypince. 
gryphite (grif'it), n. [< Gryph(a;a) + -jte 2 .] A 
fossil oyster of the genus Gryphaea. 
gryphon (grif'on), w. An obsolete or archaic 
spelling of griffin. 
Amid these wizard tomes sits the enchanter king-al- 
arm*, guarded by his wyverns, gryphon*, unicorn*^ ^ 
gryphonesctue (grif'on-esk), a. [< gryphon + 
-esque.] Griffin-like. Davies. [Rare.] 
Blanche had just one of those faces that might become 
very lovely in youth, and would yet quite justify the sus- 
picion that it might become gryphoneeque, witch-like, and 
grim. Bulwer, Caxtons, xvin. 3. 
Gryphosaurus, . See Griphosawus. 
Grypinae (gri-pl'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Grypus + 
-ints.] A subfamily of Trochilidai; the wedge- 
tailed humming-birds. Also Grypliinai. 
gryposis (gri-po'sis), . [NL., improp. grypho- 
sis, < Gr. ypvTruoif, a hooking, crooking, < ypv- 
noveOai, become hooked or curved, < ypvirof, 
hooked, curved.] In med., a curvature, espe- 
cially of the nails. See onychogryposis. 
Grypus (grip'us), n. [NL., < Gr. ypvirof, hooked, 
curved: see griffin.] 1. The typical genus of 
Grypince, containing such species as G. ntevius. 
Spix, 1824. 2f. In entom., a genus of weevils, 
of the family Curculionida: Germar, 1817. 
grysbok (gris'bok), n. [< D. grijsbok, < grijs, 
gray (see grine*), + bok = E. 6cfcl.] A South 
African antelope, Calotragns or Neotragus me- 
lanotis, of small stature and reddish-brown 
color flecked with white. It is easily captured, 
and furnishes excellent venison. 
GrystCS (gris'tez), n. [NL., < Gr. ypvCew, 
grumble, mutter.] A generic name of the 
American black-basses. 
G-String (je'string), n. The first string on the 
bass viol, the third on the violoncello, viola, 
and guitar, and the fourth on the violin: so 
called because tuned to the tone G. 
,-^,tcket(Gryttusat&rfViattis). 
( Line shows natural size. } 
Gryllina (gri-li'na), 
n. pi. [NL., < Gryl- 
lus + -ina.~\ A su- 
perfamily of salta- 
torial orthopterous insects, in which the crick- 
ets, Gryllida;, are combined with the Acridida;. 
Gryllotalpa (gril-o-tal'pa), . [NL., < L. gryl- 
lus, a cricket, + talpa, mole.] A genus of 
Gryllida;; the mole-crickets. It contains species 
Common European Crane (Grits cinerea). 
tenris. The whooping crane, G. amtncami, i the largest 
and handsomest, when adult pure- white with black pri- 
maries, about 50 inches long from bill to end of tail, and 
ging. The species are not saltatorial, hut fossorial, ex- 
cavating long tortuous galleries under ground like moles, 
whence the name. G. vulgaris of Europe is the best- 
known species. G. borealis and G. longipennis are two 
United States species. There are some two dozen in all, 
found in various parts of the world. See cut under nwle- 
Gryllus (gril'us), n. [NL., < L. gryllus, gril- 
litx, a cricket, grasshopper. A Gr. ypiUfc is 
cited, but this is found only in the sense of ' a 
Guacharo, or Oil-bird (Steatornis carifensis 
