Grouse

grows, n. the heathcock or moorfowl, a plump bird with a short curved bill, short legs, and feathered feet, which frequents Scotch moors and hills—the Scotch ptarmigan , red-grouse : any bird of the family Tetraonidæ , and sub-family Tetra on inæ . [Prob. from the older grice (on the analogy of mouse , mice )—O. Fr. griesche , gray.]