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GROTTO'LA, a town of Italy, In the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Bafilicata i four miles fouth- 
well of Matera. 
GRO'VA, a town of Africa, on the Grain Coad : 
tenmiles north-weft of Cape Palmas. 
GROVE, f. [Saxon.] A cindered aflemblage of 
trees. Any cool retreat among trees and (limbs.—For¬ 
tunate fields, and groves, and flow ’ry vales. Milton. 
Can fierce pafiions vex his bread, 
While every gale is peace, and every grove 
Is melody ? Thomfon. 
GROVE (Henry), a learned Englifh non-conformid 
divine, born at Taunton in Somerfetdiire, in 1683. 
Upon his being fent to the grammar-fchool, his quick- 
nefs of apprehenfion and love of literature enabled him 
to make Co rapid a progr.efs in cladical learning, that at 
the age of fourteen he was judged fufficiently prepared 
for entering on academical dudies. His acquaintance 
with the claflics was continued through life, and hisre- 
lifti for them increafed as his judgment and knowledge 
of mankind improved ; the Latin poets, philofophers, 
and hidorians, and the Greek moralids, being ever his 
delightful companions. Mr. Grove went through a 
courfe of academical learning under tlje reverend Mr. 
Warren of Taunton, whom in 1706 he fucceeded, upon 
his deceafe, in the maderfhip of that feminary, which 
he retained during life. In his preaching, as well as 
writing, Mr. Grove not only with great clearnefs repre- 
fented the Scripture notion of faith, and relcued it from 
entlmfiadical or contradictory interpretations ; but has 
fhewn in an able manner the reafons why the writers of 
the New Tedament often fpeak of faith as a mod eflen- 
tial part of religion. He fell a victim to the attack of 
a fever in February 1737-8, in the fifty-fifth year of his 
age. In 1740, \^ere publifhed Mr. Grove’s Pofihu- 
mous Works, in 4 v-ols. 8vo.—in 1742, two additional 
volumes of his Sermons in 1747, A Collection Of all 
his controverfial pieces, with the addition of fome Ser¬ 
mons, Charges at Ordinations, &c. in4Vols. 8vo.—and, 
in 1749, his Sydemof Moral Philofophy, in 2 vols. 8vo. 
With additions by the editor j a work dill held in con- 
fiderable edimation. 
GROVE POINT, the point which forms the north 
fide of the mouth of Saflafras river, in Chefapeak bay, 
in North America : five miles fouth-fouth-wed of Tur¬ 
nkey Point. 
To GROV'EL, v.n. [grufde, Idandic, flat on the face. 
It may perhaps come by gradual corruption from ground 
fell. ] To lie prone; to creep low on the ground.—Upon 
thy-belly groveling thou (halt go. Milton. 
What fee’d thou there ? king Henry’s diadem, 
Inchas’d with all the honours of the world ! 
If fo, gaze on, and grovel on thy face, 
Until thy head be circled with the fame. Shake/peare. 
To be mean ; to be without dignity or elevation.—Se¬ 
veral thoughts may be natural which are lowland grovel¬ 
ing. Addifon. 
I mud difclaim whate’er he can exprefs; 
His groveling fenfe will (hew my paflion lefs. Dryden. 
GROV'ET’s CREEK, 'a creek of the American 
States, in Tennelfee, feven miles from King’s Spring, 
and two from the foot of Cumberland Mountain. 
GROV'ELLER, /. A perfon of a grovelling difpo- 
fition.—The man of a towering ambition, or a Well-re¬ 
gulated tafle, has fewer objects to' envy or to covet 
than the grovellers. Skenjlone. 
GROUND, /,. [gftunb, Sax. grondt , Dan.] The 
earth, confidered as luperficially extended, and there¬ 
fore related to tillage, travel, habitation, or almod any 
action. The main mafs of terrene matter is never 
called the ground. We never didinguifli the terraqueous 
globe into ground and water, but into earth , or land, and 
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water; again, we never fay under earth, but under 
ground. —Ifrael fliall go on dry ground through the fea. 
Exod. xiv. 16. 
Man to till the ground 
None was, and from the earth a dewy mid 
Went up, and water’d all the ground. Milton. 
The earth as diflinguilhed from air or water.—I have 
made man and-bead upon the ground. Jeremiah. 
Too late young Turnus the delufion found ; 
Far on the fea, dill making from the ground. Dryden. 
Land; country : 
The water breaks its bounds, 
And overflows the level grounds. Hudibras. 
Region ; territory : 
On heavenly ground they dood, and from the fltore 
They view’d the vad immeafurable abyfs. Milton, 
Edate ; pofleffion : 
Uneafy dill within tliefe narrow bounds 
Thy next defign is on thy neighbour’s grounds : 
His crop invites, to full perfection grown ; 
Thy own feems thin, becaufe it is thy own. Dryden, 
Land occupied : 
The rains o’erflow’d my ground. 
And my bed Flanders mare was drown’d. Prior. 
The floor or level of the place.—Wherefore fliould I 
finite thee to the ground? 2 Sam. ii. 22.—Some part of 
the month of June, the water of this lake defcends un¬ 
der ground, through many great holes at the bottom. 
Brown. —'Dregs ; lees ; fasces ; that which fettles at the 
bottom of liquors. Pluralonly. —Some infid upon having 
had particular fuccefs in (topping gangrenes, from the 
ufe of thcgrcaWrof drong beer, mixed up with bread 
or oatmeal. Sharp. —The fird flratum of paint upon 
which the figures are afterwards painted.—We fee the 
limner to begin with a rude draught, and the painter to 
lay his grounds with darkfome colours. Hakewill.- —The 
fundamental ftibdance ; that by which the additional 
or accidental parts are fupported.—Indeed it was but 
jud that the fined lines in nature fliould be drawn upon 
the mod durable ground. Pope. 
Then, wrought into the foul, let virtues (hine, 
The ground eternal, as the work divine. Young. 
The plain fong ; the tune on which defcants are raifed : 
Get a prayer-book in your hand, 
And dand between two churchmen, good my lord ; 
For on that ground I’ll build a holy defcant. Shake/peare. 
Fird hint; fird traces of an invention ; that which gives 
occafion to the red : 
Though jealoufy of date th’ invention found, 
Yet love refin’d upon a former ground ; 
That way the tyrant had referv’d to fly, 
Purfuing hate, now ferv’d to bring two lovers nigh. Dryd. 
The fird principles of knowledge.—After evening re¬ 
pads, ’till bed-time, their thoughts will be bed taken 
up in the eafy grounds of religion, and the dory of Scrip¬ 
ture. Milton. 
Here datefmen, or of them they which can read, 
May of their occupation find th grounds. Donne, 
The fundamental caufe ; the true, reafon ; original prin¬ 
ciple.—Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. 
Rofcommon. 
Thou collid’d not have difcern’d 
Fraud in the ferpent, fpeaking as he fpake, 
No ground of enmity between us known. Milton, 
The field or place of attion : 
Here was thy end decreed, when thefe men rofe ; 
And e’en with theirs this aft thy death did bring. 
Or haden’d at the! ead upon this ground. Daniel. 
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