G R O 
I dare lay a groat , 
A tertian ague is at leaft your lot. Drydtn » 
Groats, are oatsthathave the hulls taken oft'. Ainfto. 
GROB'BENDONCK, a town of Brabant: ten miles 
eaft of Antwerp. 
GRO'BIAN,/. A flovenly ill-bred fellow. An old 
word. 
GRO'BIANISM, /. [from grobian .] Ruftic beha¬ 
viour; flovenlinefs. Bailey. Notvfed. 
GROB'INEN, a town in the duchy of Courland: 
twenty-eight miles foiith-fouth-weft of Goldingen. 
GROBOVO'POLE, a fort of Ruftia, in the province 
of Ekaterinburg: forty miles weft of Ekaterinburg. 
GRO'CER,/". [This fhould be written grojfer, from 
grofs, a large quantity ; a grocer originally being one who 
dealt by wholefale ; or from grojfus, a fig, which their 
prefent ftate feems to favour.] 
But ftill the offspring of your brain fliall prove 
The grocer’s care, and brave the rage of Jove. Garth. 
GRO'CERY,/". Grocer’s ware, fuch as tea ; fugar; 
raifins ; fpice.—His troops, being now in a country where 
they were not expected, met with many cart-loads of 
wine, grocery , and tobacco. Clarendon. 
GRO'DECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Bielfk: forty miles fouth-weft of Bielfk. 
GRO'DITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neiffe : two miles and a half north-weft of Ottmuchau. 
GROD NO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna, fituated on the river Niemen, partly on an emi¬ 
nence and partly on a plain, furrounded with hills/ 
Near it is an old cattle, in which the diets formerly af- 
fembled, but now fallen to deaay, only one wing of it 
remaining, furrounded by a deep fofs, and communi¬ 
cating with the town by a bridge. Auguftus III. built 
another, but did not live to inhabit it. In 1673, it was 
enadfted, that every third general diet fhould.be held in 
this town, which has not been regularly obferved. The 
Roman catholics have nine churches, thole of the 
Greek church have two, and the Jews have a fyna- 
gogue. The market-place, and the principal ttreet 
which leads to the caftle, are paved ; the other ftreets 
in general are mean, and the houfes for the moft part 
little better than cottages. The number of inhabitants 
is eftimated at feven thoufand, many of which are em¬ 
ployed in manufactures of linen, woollen, cotton, and 
filk. A medical academy was inftituted here by the 
late king of Poland, for ttudents in phyfic and furgery, 
at his own expence ; and which, but for the late unfor¬ 
tunate troubles, bid fair to become of confiderable con- 
fequence to the country : fixty-four miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Wilna, 140 north-eaft of Warfaw, and i4ofouth- 
eattrof Konigfberg. Lat.53. 28.N. Ion.41.58. E. Ferro. 
GRO'EMS, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Holftein : ten milesYouth of Cifmar. 
GROG, f. [a fea-term for] Gin and water.—Ac¬ 
cordingly we ttopt ferving grog, except on Saturday 
nights. Cook and King’s Voyage. 
GROG'ERAM, Grocram, or Grogran, f. [gros 
grain, Fr. grojogranus, low Lat. Ainfioorth.'] Stuff woven 
with large woof and a rough pile.—Natolia affords 
great ttore of chamelots and grograms. Sandys. 
Certes they’re nearly cloth’d ; I of this mind am, 
Your only wearing is your grogeram. Donne. 
GROHNDE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Calenburg, on the 
Wefer, where a toll is paid. Near it is a monument of 
ftone, ereCted in memory of a bloody battle fought here 
in 1421 : nine miles fouth of Hameln. 
GROIN, f. [of uncertain derivation.] The part 
next the thigh : 
The fatal dart arrives, 
And through the border of his buckler drives ; 
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Pafs’d through and pierc’d hisgrww ; the deadly wound, 
Caftfrom his chariot, roll’d him on the ground. Dryden. 
GROIN, f. in architecture, an angle made by the 
interfeCtion of.two arches. It is of two kinds; regular, 
and irregular: viz. Regular, when both the arches 
have the fame diameter; Irregular, when one arch is a 
femicircle, and the other a femiellipfe. Groins are 
chiefly ufed in forming arched roofs, where one hollow 
arched vault interfeCts with another; as in the roofs of 
churches, and in cellars, wine-vaults, See. See Archi¬ 
tecture, vol. ii. p. 112, and the correfpondent En¬ 
graving. 
GROIN'ARD, a fmall ifland of Scotland, near the 
weft coaft of the county of Rofs: fix miles fouth-eaft 
of Udrigil Head. 
GROLL, a town of the Dutch States, or kingdom of 
Holland, in the county of Zutplien, ftrongly fortified, 
fituated on the river Slinghe, whole waters fill the 
ditches round the fortifications. At the commence¬ 
ment of the revolt, it adhered firmly to the king of 
Spain. In 1593, the prince of Orange befieged it, but 
was compelled to retire by general Mondragon, who 
arrived with fome troops to relieve the place ; it was, 
however, taken four years after, when the Spanilh army 
was engaged in Picardy. The marquis of Spinola took' 
it from the Dutch in 1605, who laid fiege to it again in 
1627, under the conduCt of prince Frederic Henry of 
Naflau. Lambert Vereycken, who commanded the 
town, was obliged to furrender the 26th of Auguft, 
after a month’s attack, and after the comte de Bergh, 
who was advancing to his afliftance, had been twice re- 
pulfed. William, the natural fon of Maurice, prince 
of Orange, and admiral of Holland, was killed at this 
iiege. The important fituation of the place, in the vi¬ 
cinage of Weftphalia and the bifhopric of Munfter, in¬ 
duced the bifhop of the latter, affitted with the troops 
of France, to befiege it, in 1672; but the Hollanders 
retook it a fhort time after : nineteen miles eaft of Zut- 
phen, and nineteen fouth-fouth-weft of Oldenfeel. Lat. 
52. 8. N. Ion. 24. 80. E. Ferro. 
GRO'MI, a town of Ruftia, in the government of Ir- 
kutfeh : 112 miles north of Balaganlkoi. 
GRO'MING, a town of Germany, in the dqchy of 
Stiria, belonging to the archbilhopric of Saltijburg : 
twenty-five miles weft of Rottenmanns, and forty weft- 
north-weft of Judenburg. 
GROM'WELL, f. In botany; the gromill or gray- 
mill. See Lythospermum. 
GRON, /. [from the Sax.] A fenny place; a kind 
of bog. Obfolete. Phillips. 
GRONAU', a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bifhopric of Munfter: twenty-five 
miles north-weft of Munfter. 
GRO'NENBACH, or Grunenbach, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Swabia, belonging to the 
abbey of Kempten : thirteen miles north-north-weft of 
Kempten. 
GRONES', a cape on the north-weft coaft of the 
ifland of Jerfey: fix miles north-weft of St. Aubin. 
GRONESSE CASTLE, a fort of the ifland of Jer¬ 
fey : feven miles north-weft of St. Heliar. 
GRO'NEY, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Ufk, in the county of Brecknock. 
GRON'PIAUS, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Holftein : twenty-four miles north-eaft of Eutyn. 
GRON'INGEN, one of the United States of the king¬ 
dom of Holland, bounded on the north by the German 
Ocean, on the eaft by Eaft Friefland and Germany, on 
the fouth by Overiflel, and on the weft by Friefland. It 
was formerly a burggraviat, or vicounty, under the pro¬ 
tection of the bifhop of Utrecht ; as granted by the em¬ 
peror Henry III. The emperor Maximilian gave it, 
with all Friefland, to Albert duke of Saxony, to flop 
the progrefs of the two factions,. called Schyrings and 
Yr Vet-coOpers; 
