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GROWL'ING, f. [from the verb. ] Tiieafl of fnarl- 
ing ; the noife of wild beaftsin anger. ■ 
GROWME,/ An engine to ftretch woollen cloth af¬ 
ter it is woven. See the ancient ftat/43 Edw. III. c. 10. 
GROWN,, the part. paff. of grow. Advanced in 
growth. Covered or filled by the growth of anything. 
•—I went by the field of the ■ flothful, arid by the vine¬ 
yard of the man void of underftanding; and lo, it was 
all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the 
face thereof. Proverbs. —Arrived at full growth or fta- 
ture.—I faw lately a_pair of China fiioes, which I was 
told were for a grown woman, that would fcarce have 
been big enough for one of our little girls. Locke. —Be¬ 
come prevalent.—This is now fo grown- a vice, and has 
fo great fupports, lhat I know not whether it do not 
put in for the name of a virtue. Locke. 
GROWTH, /. Vegetation; vegetable life ; increafe 
of vegetation.—Thofe trees that have the floweft growth, 
are, for that reafon, of the longeft continuance. Atterbury. 
Deep in the palace of long growth there flood 
A laurel’s trunk of venerable wood. Drydcn. 
Produ&j production; thing produced; a£t of pro¬ 
ducing.—TheMxade of a country arifes from the native 
growths of the foil or feas. Temple. 
Our little world, the image of the great, 
Of- her qwn growth hath all that nature craves, 
And all that’s rare, as tribute from the waves. Waller. 
Increafe in number, bulk, or frequency.—What I have 
tried, or thought, or heard, upon this fubject, may go 
a great 'way in preventing the growth of this difeafe. 
Temple. —Increafe"of flature ; for fome very remarkable 
inftanc.es of which, fee the article Giant, vol. viii. 
p. 546-547. — Though an animal arrives at his full growth 
at a certain age, perhaps it never comes to its full bulk 
’till the laft period of life. Arbuthnot. 
The flag, now confcious of his fatal growth, 
To fome dark-covert his retreat had made. Denham. 
Improvement ; advancement.—It grieved David’s re¬ 
ligious mind to confider the growth of his own eftate 
and dignity, the affairs of religion continuing ftill in the 
former manner. Hooker. 
GROWTIP-HALFPENNY, /. A rate fo called, 
and paid in fome places for the tithe of every fat beaft, 
ox, or other unfruitful cattle. Clayton's Rep. 92. 
GROWT'HEAD, or Growtnol, f. [from grofs or 
great head.'] A kind of fifh. Ainfwortk. An idle lazy 
fellow. Qbfolete: 
Though fleeping one hour refrelheth his fong, 
Yet truft not Hob growthead for fleeping too long. Tujfer. 
To GROYNE, v. n. [gjtonnian, Sax.] To grunt: 
Some were of cats, that wrawling ftill did cry, 
And fome of beads, that groyn'd continually. Spenfer. 
GROZDAN'SKY, a town of Croatia: five miles 
north-weft of Novi. 
GRO'ZINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, and duchy of Wirtemberg: ten miles north- 
eaft of Tubingen, and eleven fouth-fouth-eaft of- Stutt¬ 
gart. 
GRUA'RII, /. In law books, the officers of a foreft. 
To GRftfB, v.a. \_graban , prefer, grab, to dig, Gothic.] 
To dig up ; to deftroy by digging ; to root out of the 
ground ; to eradicate by throwing up out of the foil — 
A foolifh heir caufed all the bullies and hedges about 
his vineyard to be grubbed up. LEJlrange. 
Foreft land. 
From whence the furly ploughman grubs the wood. Dryd. 
GRUB, f. [from grubbing , or mining.] A final 1 worm, 
the larvae of the infedt tribes. See Entomology, 
vol. vi. p. 834-845.—There is a difference between a 
grub and a butterfly, and yet your butterfly was a grub. 
Shakefpeare. 
The grub 
Oft unobferv’d, invades the vital core ; 
Pernicious tenant! and her fecret cave 
Enlarges hourly, preying on the pulp. Philips. 
A fhort thick man; a dwarf. In contempt.—John Ro- 
mane, a fhort clownifh grub, would bear the whole car- 
cafs of an ox, yet never tugged with him. Carew. 
GRUB-AX, /. A toolufed ingrubbingup underwood. 
GRUB'BING, f [from the verb.-] The act of dig¬ 
ging up.— Grubbing a Cock, is cutting off his feathers un¬ 
der the wings. 
To GRUB'BLE, v. n. \_grubelen, Germ, from grub.] 
To feel in the dark : 
Thou haft a colour ; 
Now let me row 1 and grabble thee : 
Blind men fay white feels fmooth, and black feels rough : 
Thou haft a rugged fltin ; I do not like thee. Drydcn. 
GRUBE, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Hol- 
ftein: twelve miles north-north-eaft of Cifmar. 
GRU'BEN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neiffe : eight miles fouth-eaft of Grotkau. 
GRU'BENHAGEN, a town arid caftle' of Germany, 
in the circle of Lower Saxony, fituated in a principality 
of the fame name : feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Einbeck, and fix north-weft of Nordheim. 
GRU'BENHAGEN, a principality of Germany, in 
the circle of Lower Saxony, whicii takes its name from 
a caftle fo called, though now in ruins, belonging to 
Planover. It contains fome fertile land, but the greater 
part is mountainous and woody. The inhabitants raife 
a great number of horned cattle and fheep, cultivate 
flax, and carry on fome linen manufactures ; but the 
principal riches arife from wood. The forefts are filled 
with oak, beech, firs, elms, See. Here are quarrries of 
flate, limeftone, marble, alabafter, and divers forts of 
jafper; fait fprings, mines of fulphur, calamine, and 
zinc ; there are fome mines of gold, but not abundant; 
thofe of filver, copper, iron, and lead, are exceedingly 
rich. The Hartz forefts, the ancient Hercynian Forejl, is 
a mountain covered with trees, and abounding with 
mines. The rivers which water this country are the 
Leine, the Ruhme, the -Sofe, and the Ocker. The in¬ 
habitants are Lutherans. This principality had, before 
the French revolution, the right of voting at the diets 
of the empire in the college of princes, and at the af. 
femblies of the circle. The revenues are not large. 
Eimbeck is the capital. 
GRUB'STREET, f. [from the name of a ftreet 
near Moorfields in London, formerly much inhabited 
by writers of fmall hiftories, political fqitibs, and dog-, 
gerel poems ; whence any mean production is called 
grubjlreet. ]—1’dfooner ballads write, and grubjlreet lays. 
Gay. —The firft part, though calculated only for the 
meridian of grubjlreet, was yet’ taken notice of by the 
better fort. Arbuthnot. 
GRUB'STREET, adj. [from the /.] Low; mean; 
fit only for the lowed: clafs of readers. 
GRU'DACK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemburg : twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Lemburg. 
GRU'DECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podolia : thirty-two miles weft of Kaminiec. 
GRU'DECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : twenty-eight miles eaft of Braclaw. 
GRU'DECK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiov : fifty miles weft-north-weft of Bialacerkiew. 
To GRUDGE, v. a. [from gruger, according to Skin¬ 
ner, which in French is to grind, or eat. In this fenfe 
we fay of one who refentsany thing fecretly, he chews it. 
Grwgnach, in Wellh, is to murmur ; to grumble. Gru- 
nigh, in Scotland, denotes a grumbling morofe counte¬ 
nance.] To envy ; to fee any advantage of another 
with difeontent.—Do not, as fome men, run upon the 
tilt, and tafte of the fediments of a grudging uncom¬ 
municative difpofition. Spebiater. 
