GROUT

(Sax. grut.) In Architecture, mortar reduced to a slate of fluidity by the addition of water: a mixture of plash ir stuff, used in fiiishing the best ceilings; also for mouldings, and sometimes for settii:'_' v, alls. (lltlJIDiE. The name of the family of wading birds rep-- resented by the stork (Grus). [s. 549]