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£ ionary of the Vulgar Tongue. 3. A Provincial Dic- 
*ionary. 4. A volume of humorous effays entitled, The 
Grittnbler. 5. A collection of anecdotes and poetical 
pieces called The Olio. 6. A Treatife on the Cultoms 
and Manners of the People of Bengal; which country 
the author had vifited in the army, in the earlier part 
of his life. His valuable work on the Antiquities of 
Ireland, in 4vols. was edited by Mr. Ledwich, and pub- 
lilhed in 1794. His Antiquities of England and Wales, 
of Scotland, and Ireland, are therefore comprifed in 
,10 vols. 
GRO'SEN, a town of the duchy of Courland : twen¬ 
ty-eight miles fouth of Goldingen. 
GROS'LEY (Peter John), fon of an advocate at 
'Troyes, where he was born in 1718. He was brought 
up to the bar and became an advocate in parliament, 
but his tafte led him to general literature and foreign 
refearches. He twice vilited Italy and England, and 
once Holland ; he alfo made annual vifits to the capital, 
where he was received in the bed focieties. He was an 
enemy to reftraint, and loved to fpeak freely. _ His 
fortune, originally decent, was increafed by a fpirit of 
economy, which, however, did not prevent him from 
performing generous actions. He presented to his native 
city feveral marble buds of eminent men born there, 
which were placed in the Hotel-de-ville. He died at 
Troyes in 1785. His principal works are : 1. Rcckerches 
pour fervir.a VHijloire du Droit Francois, 1752, much ef- 
reemed for the Solidify of its erudition. 2. Vie des Freres 
Pithou, J756, an interefting account of thefe friends of 
literature.- 3. Obfervations de deux Gentilhommes Suedois fur 
W Italic, 4 vols. 121x10. 4. Londres, 3 vols. umo. con¬ 
taining obfervations made in his vifits to England. 5. 
EJfais Hiftoriques fur la Champagne. 6. Ephemeridcs Troyennes. 
7. A great number of Letters, controverfial pieces, Eu¬ 
logies, See. publifhed in the Journal Encyclopedique, from 
1771 to 17S5. He had alfo a (hare in the Memoires Aca- 
Jcm. de Troyes, and the lad tranflation of Davila. 
GROSO'N, a town of France, in the department of 
•the Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the didridt of 
Poligny : one league foutlx-w ed of Arbois, and one 
north of Poligny. 
GROSO'NE, a town of the idand of Cordca : three 
miles fouth of Badia. 
GR.OSS, adj. Igros, Fr. grojfo , Itai. craffus, Lat.] 
Thick ; bulky : 
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, 
.Shew fcarce fo grofs as beetles. Shakcjpeare. 
Shameful,; unfeemly; enormous.—So far hath the na¬ 
tural underdanding, even of fnndry whole nations, been 
darkened, that they have not difeerned grofs iniquity to 
be fin. Hooker. —Intellectually coarfe ; palpable; impure; 
unrefined.—It is a grofs rnidake of fome men, to think 
that our wantonly and imperfections do naturally induce 
us to be beneficent. Smalridge. 
Belial came lad, than whom a fpirit more lewd 
Fell not from heaven, or more grofs to love 
Vice for itfelf. - Milton. 
Inelegant,; difproportionate in bulk : 
The fun’s oppreflive ray, the rofeate bloom 
Of beauty blading, gives the gloomy hue 
And feature grofs. Thomfon. 
Denfe ; not refined-; not attenuated; not pure.—It is 
manifed, that when the eye dandeth in the finer medium, 
and the objeCt is in the grojfer, things fliew greater, but 
contrari wife, when the eye is placed in the grojfer me¬ 
dium, and the dbjeCt in the finer. Bacon. 
Light fumes are merry, grojfer fumes are fad ; 
Both are the reafonable foul run mad. Dryden. 
Or fuck the milts in grojfer air below, 
Or dip their pinions in the painted bow. Pope. 
.Stupid; dull.—Some men give more light and know- 
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ledge by the bare dating of the quedion with perfpicuity 
and judnefs, than others by talking of it in grofs confufiorx 
for whole hours together. Watts. 
And in clear dream and folemn vifion, 
Tell her of things that no grofs ear can hear. Milton. 
Coarfe; rough; oppofite to delicate.—Fine and delicate 
fculptures are helped with nearnefs, and grofs with dif- 
tance. Wotton. —Thick; fat ; bulky.—His dature was of 
jud height and all proportionate dimenfions, avoiding 
the extremes of grofs and meagre. Fell. 
GROSS,/. The main body; the main force.—The 
grofs of the people can have no other profpeCt in changes 
and revolutions than of public blefiings. Addifon. 
The Belgians hop’d that with diforder’d hade 
The deep-cut keels upon the fand might run; 
Or, if with caution leifurely we pad, 
Their numerous grofs might charge us one by one. Dryden. 
The bulk ; the whole not divided into feveral parts.—■ 
Notwithdanding the decay and lofs of fundry trades and 
manufactures, yet in the grofs , we fhip off now one-third 
part more of the manufactures, as alfo lead and tin, than 
we did twenty years pad. Child on Trade. 
Remember, fon, 
You are ageneral: other wars require you ; 
For fee the Saxon grofs begins to move. Dryden. 
Not individual; but a body together: 
He hath ribbons of all the colours i’ th’rainbow ; 
They come to him by the grofs. Shakefpeare. 
The chief part; the main mafs.—Comets, out of ques¬ 
tion, have likewife power and effeCt over the grofs and 
mafs of things. Bacon. —The number of twelve dozen. 
[ Grojfe, Fr.]—It is made up only of that Ample idea of 
an unite repeated; and repetitions of this kind, joined 
together, make thole diltinCt fiinple modes of a dozen, 
vi grofs, and a million. Locke. 
GROSS, adv. Palpably.—To be received plain, I’ll 
fpeak more grofs. Shakefpeare. 
GROSS, adj. In the ancient feudal law, a villein in 
grofs, or fuch a fervile perfon as was not appendant or 
annexed to the lord, or manor, nor to go along with the 
tenure as appurtenant to it; but was like the other per- 
fonal goods and chattels of his lord, at his lord’s plea- 
fure and difpolal: fo alfo advowfon in grofs differs from 
advowfon appendant, being diltinCt from the manor. Co. 
Lit. 120. 
GROSS, adj. (common in, or common at large,) is 
fuch as is neither appendant nor appurtenant, to land, 
but is annexed to a man’s perfon ; being granted to him 
and his heirs.by deed : or it may be claimed by prescrip¬ 
tive right, as by the parfon of a church, or.the like cor¬ 
poration foie. This is a Separate inheritance, entirely dil- 
tinCt from any landed property. 
GROSS BOIS, f In old records, wood‘of fuch a 
growth as to be accounted timber. 
GROSS-BOT'WAR, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Swabia, and duchy of Wirtemberg : ten miles 
fouth-fouth-ealt of Heilbronn, and thirteen north-north- 
eaft of Stuttgart. 
GROSS-SAL'ZE, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Lower Saxony, and duchy of Magdeburg. Here are 
considerable falt-works : twelve miles fouth of Magde¬ 
burg. 
GROS'SA, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Aultria : three miles fouth of Baden. 
GROS'SA, an illand in the Adriatic, fix miles long, 
and one wide, near the coal! of Dalmatia. 
GROS'SA, an illand of Italy, thirty miles in length, 
four in breadth, ahd Sixty in circumference; compre¬ 
hends thirteen villages, of which Sale is the capital, 
Situated on the Lake of Conna, which abounds in fifli. 
The inhabitants carry on a good trade with falt-fifii. 
GROSSELFIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle 
