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G R O 
GROUNDWORK, /. The ground ; the firft ftra. 
turn; the firft part of the whole; that to which the 
reft is additional : 
A way there is in heav’n’s expanded plain, 
Which, when the Ikies are clear, is feen below. 
And mortals by the name of milky know : 
The groundwork is of ftars. Dry den. 
The firft part of an undertaking; the fundamentals.— 
The main (kill and groundwork will be to temper them 
fuch ledtures and explanations, uponevery opportunity, 
as may lead and draw them in willing obedience. Milton. 
—Firft principle ; original reafon.—The moral is the 
firft bufinefs of the poet, as being the groundwork of his 
iuftru&ion. Dryden. 
GROUP, /. \_grouppe, Fr. groppo, Ital.] A crowd; a 
clufter ; a huddle ; a number thronged together.—In a 
pidture, befides the principal figures which compofe it, 
there are lefs groups or knots of figures difpofed at pro¬ 
per diftances, which are parts of the piece, and feem to 
carry on the lame defign in a more inferior manner. Dryd. 
You (hould try your graving tools 
On this odious group of fools. Swift. 
To GROUP, v.ia. To put into a crowd ; to huddle 
together.—The difficulty lies in drawing and difpofing, 
or, as the painters term it, in grouping , fuch a multitude 
of different objedts, preferving (till the juftice and con¬ 
formity of ftyle and colouring. Prior. 
GROUPA'DE,/ In the manege, a leap higher than 
an ordinary corvet. 
GROUPE’s ISLANDS, two clufters of iflands in 
the South Pacific Ocean, extending for the fpace of 
nine leagues. The two largeft are feparated by a ftrait 
about four hundred fathoms wide, and each furrounded 
by a number of fmall ones, as it were chained together 
by rocks under water, and placed in all forts of direc¬ 
tions ; they are all covered with cocoa-trees. The in¬ 
habitants are well-proportioned, almoft naked, and 
painted brown, with black hair, tied in a kind of net¬ 
work; Thefe ifiands were probably difcovered by Rog- 
gewin. Lat. 17. 58. to 18. 6. S. 1011.142.45.10142.^54. 
W. Greenwich. 
GROUSE, f. The red and black heath-game, for pre¬ 
ferving of which, no heath, furze,' or fern, (hall be 
burnt on any heaths, moors, or other waftes, between 
the 2d of February and 24th of June. 4 & 5 Will. & Mary, 
c. 23. For the prefervation, fee the -article Game, 
vol. viii. p. 215 ; and, for the natural hiftory, fee Te- 
TRAO, with the correfponding engravings. 
The ’fquires in fcorn will fly the houfe 
For better game, and look for groufe. Swift. 
GROUT, / [gput:, Sax.] In Scotland they call it 
groats. Coarfe meal; pollard : 
King Hardicnute, ’midft Danes and Saxons ftout, 
Carous’d in nut-brown ale, and din’d on grout ; 
Which difli its priftine honour (fill retains, 
And when each prince is crown’d in fplendour reigns. 
Sweet honey fome gondenfe, fome purge the grout ; 
The reft, in cells apart, the liquid nedtar (hour. Dryden. 
GROU'VILLE, a village of the ifland of Jerfey r 
three mileseaft from St. Heliar. 
GROUWE, a town of Flanders : five miles north-eaft 
of Hulft. 
To GROW, v. n. preter. grew ; _part. paff. grown: 
[gjiopan, Sax. groyen, Dut.1 To vegetate - to have ve¬ 
getable motion ; to increafe by vegetation.—He caufeth 
the grafs to grow for the cattle, and herb for the fervice 
of man. Pf. civ. 14.—To be produced by vegetation; 
In colder regions men compofe 
Poifon with art, but here it grows. Waller. 
G R O 
Thofe tow’rs of oak o’er fertile plains might go, 
And vifit mountains where they once did grow. Waller. 
To (hoot in any particular form: 
Children, like tender ofiers, take the bow ; 
And as they firft are fafhion’d, always grow. Dryden. 
To increafe in ftature : 
I long with all my heart to fee the prince; 
I hope he is much gmyrafincelaft I faw him. Skakefpeare, 
To come to manhood from infancy : commonly fol¬ 
lowed by up. —We are brought into the world children, 
igndrant and impotent; and we grow up in vanity and 
folly. Wake. —-To iffue as plants from a foil, or as 
branches from the main trunk.—They will feem not 
ftuck into him, but growing out of him. Dryden .— To 
increafe in bulk ; to become greater, or more nume¬ 
rous.—Bones, after full growth, continue at a (lay : as 
for nails, they grow continually. Bacon. —To improve ; 
to make progrefs.— Grow in grace, and in the know¬ 
ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. 2 Pet. iii. 
i3.—To advance to any (late.—They doubted where- 
unto this would grow. AEls v. 24. 
But when to ripen’d manhood he (hall grow. 
The greedy failor (hall the feas forego. Dryden. 
To come by degrees ;. to reach any (late gradually.— 
Verfe, or the other harmony of profe, I have fo long 
ftudied and pradtifed, that they are grown into a habit, 
and become familiar to me. Dryden. —To come for¬ 
ward ; to gather ground.—Some feeing the end of their 
government nigh, and troublous practice growing up, 
which may work trouble to the next‘governor, will not 
attempt redrefs. Spenfer. —To be changed from one (fate 
to another; to become either better or worfe ; to turn. 
—A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels. Shake/p. 
By degrees the vain deluded elf 
Grew out of humour with his former felf. Harte. 
To .proceed as from a caufe or reafon.—Take heed now 
that ye fail not to do this : why (hould damage grow to 
the hurt of the king ? Ez.iv. 22.—-To accrue ; to be 
forthcoming : ‘ 
Ev’n juft the fum that I do owe to you, 
Is growing to me by Antipholis. Skakefpeare. 
To adhere ;■ to (lick together : 
Honour and policy, like unfever’d friends, 
I’ th’ war do grow together. Skakefpeare. 
To ftfeil: a fea term.—Mariners are ufed to the tum¬ 
bling and rolling of (hips from fide to fide, when the 
fea is never fo little grown. Raleigk. 
The general idea given by this word is proceffion or 
paffage from one ftate to another. It is always change, 
but not always increafe; for a thing may grow lefs, as 
well as grow greater. 
GROW’AN,/. In the mines of Cornwall, a coarfe 
gritty ftone, which they are often obliged to dig-through 
before they come to the ore. 
GROW'ER, f. An increafer.—It will grow to a 
great bignefs, being the quickeft grower of any kind of 
elm. Mortimer. 
GROW'ING, f. The adl of vegetation; a growth. 
[A fea term. ] The diredtion of the cable from the (hip. 
To GROWL, v. h. [grollen , Flem.] To friarl or mur¬ 
mur like an angry cur,—Dogs in this country are. of 
the fize of common maftiffs, and by nature never bark, 
but growl when they are provoked. Ellis. 
They roam-amid’ the firry of their heart, 
And growl their horrid loves. Tkomfon. 
To murmur; to grumble.—Othello, neighbours; how 
he would roar about a foolifh handkerchief I and then 
he would growl fo manfully. Gay. 
GROWL'ING, 
