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pies, and province of Bari: three miles and a half 
foiitli-fouth-weft of Bittetto. 
GRUMOS'ITY, / Fullnefs of clods or lumps. 
GRU'MOUS, adj. Thick; clotted.—The blood when 
let was black, grumous, the red part without a due con¬ 
fidence, the ferum faline, and of a yellowifti-green, Ar- 
buthnot. 
GRU'MOUSNESS,/ Thicknefs of a coagulated li¬ 
quor.—The caufe may be referred either to thecoagu. 
Ration of (the ferum, or grumoufncfsoi the blood. Wifeman. 
GRUNAU', a town of Silefia, in the principality,of 
l^eilfe: three miles fotith-fouth-wefl of Neifie. 
GRUNAU', a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Lauenburg: eighteen 
miles north-north-ead of Mollen. 
GRUN'BE'RG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the' Upper Rhine, and principality of Upper Helfe, 
where the kings of the Merovingian race, and Charle¬ 
magne, held their court : ten miles ead of Gieflen, and 
twenty-eight wed of Fulda. 
QRUN'BERG, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Glogau, furrounded with vineyards- It contains 
two churches, and has a manufacture of cloth : twelve 
miles north of Freydadt, and twenty-four north-wed of 
•Gros Glogau. 
GRUND, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, fituated in the Hartz fored: twelve miles 
fouth-wed of Gofiar. 
GRUN'DEL SEE, a lake of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria : two miles north-ead of New Aufiee. 
GRUNDL'BACH, a river of Germany, in the circle 
. of Franconia, which runs into the Rednitz, three miles 
fouth of Erlang, in the territory of Nuremberg. 
GRUNDL'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Franconia, and territory of Nuremberg : fix'miles* 
north of Nuremberg, and four fouth of Erlang. 
GRUNE (Grand), a rock in the Englifli Channel, 
near the fouth coad of the ifland of Jerfey, about half 
a league fouth-fouth-wed from Noirmont Point. 
GRUNE du PORT, a rock at the entrance of the 
bay of St. Aubin, on the fouth coad of the ifland of 
Jerfey. 
GRU'NEBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenburg : twenty 
miles north-north-weft of Cuftrin. 
GRUN'HAYN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgeburg: forty-fix 
miles wefl-fouth-wed of Drefden, and fifteen fouth of 
Chemnitz. Lat. 50. 32. N. Ion. 30. 32. E. Ferro. 
GRUN'HOFF, a town of the duchy of Courland : 
eight miles fouth-fouth-wed of Mittaw. 
GRU'NINGEN, a town of Swilferland, and capital 
of a bailiwic, in the canton pf Zurich : twelve miles 
fouth-ead of Zurich, and twenty-one north-wed of 
Claris. 
GRU'NINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of-Halberdadt, on the 
river Boden : five leagues ead of Halberdadt. 
GRUN-SEE, i. e. Green Lake, a lake of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Bavaria, and provoflfliip of 
Berchtoldfgaden, eleven miles fouth-wed of Berch- 
toldfgaden. 
GRUN'SEL, /. [More ufually groundjil, unlefs Mil- 
ton intended to prefervethe Saxon gpunb.] The ground, 
fil ; the lower part of the building : 
When the captive ark 
Maim’d his brute image, head and hands lopp’d off 
Jn his own temple, on the grunftl edge. 
Where he fell flat, and fitam’d his worfhippers. Milton. 
GRUNS'FELD, or Grunfeld, atownof Germany, 
hi the circle of Franconia, and bilhopric of Wurzburg: 
fix miles north-north-wed of Mergentheim. 
GRUN'STADT, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Leiningen. It has 
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three churches for Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and 
Calvinids : twenty-two miles north-north-wed of Spire, 
and twenty-eight fouth ,of Mentz. Lat. 49. 32. N. 
Ion. 25. 47. E. Ferro. 
To GRUNT, or To Gruntle, v.n. Igrunnio, Lat.jj 
To murmur like a hog : 
And neigh, and bark, and grunt , and roar, and burn, 
Like horfe, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn. Shake/. 
Lament, ye fwine ! in gruntling fpend your grief; 
For you, like me, have lod your foie relief. Gay. 
Thy brinded boars may dumber undifmay’d ;. 
Or grunt fecure beneath the chefnut Ihade. Tick,el. 
GRUNT, /. The noife of a hog : 
From hence were heard 
The grunts of bridled boars, and groans of bears, 
And nerds of howling wolves. Dryden. 
GRUNT, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Audria, fituated near Gunderfdord', 
GRUNT'ER, f. He that grunts ; a hog. A kind of 
[%f »/*»?•] 
GRUNT'ING,/. The common noife of a pig. 
GRUNT'LING, f. A pig. A genus of fidi ; fee 
Axthias. 
GRUS,/. the Crane, one of the new' conflellations 
in the fouthern hemifphere y containing, according to 
Mr. Sharp’s catalogue, thirteen flars, 
Grus is alfo one of the Arabian conflellations, and 
anfwers to our Ophiucus, to which they changed this 
condellation, their religion prohibiting them from draw¬ 
ing any human figures. 
GRUSU'E, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Ag» 
gerhuus, on the Glanmen : fix mires north of Berga. 
To GRUTCH, v. n. [corrupted for the fake of rhyme* 
from grudge. J To envy ; to repine ; to be difeontented. 
Not ufed: 
The poor at th’ enclofure doth grutek , 
Becaufe of abufes that fall, 
Led fome men fliould have but too much, 
And fome again nothing at all. Tujfer . 
GRUTCH,/. Malice; ill-will: 
In it he melted leaden bullets, 
To fhoot at foes, and fometimes pullets ; 
To whom he bore fo fell a grutch. 
He ne’er gave quarter t’ any fuch. Hudibras. 
GRU'TEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and duchy,of Berg : three miles eafl-fouth- 
ead of Medman. 
GRU'TER (John, Latin Janus Gruterus), an eminent 
critic, the foil of a burgomafler of Antwerp, who, in 
the troubles of his country, took refuge in England. 
He married an Englifii woman, and returned to Ant¬ 
werp when the United States had taken poflefiion of it. 
John was born in 1560, and in his feventh year accom¬ 
panied his parents back to England. He received his 
fird education under his mother, who was miflrefs of 
various languages. He fludied for fome. years in the 
univerfity of Cambridge, and thence was fent to Ley¬ 
den, for the fludy of jurifprudence ; but although he 
took his degrees in law, he attached himfelf folely to 
polite literature, and at an early age publidied works on 
criticifm. Having travelled into "Germany, he was of¬ 
fered the profefiorfliip of hi dory in the univerfity of 
Wittemberg, by Chridian duke of Saxony, which he 
accepted. But after the death of that prince, the go¬ 
vernment requiring from all the profedprs fubfeription 
to a formulary of dodtrine as the condition of holdin°- 
their places, Gruter preferred refignation to compliance” 
He was next eledled one of the profeffors at Heidelberg, 
where he had the direction of its famous library. At 
the lack of this city by Tilly, in 1622, he fuffered the 
lots of his own library, worth twelve thoufand gold 
2 crowns. 
