Grout

[A. S. grut, meal of wheat or barley; Gael. gruid, lees, dregs, grounds; D. greys, dregs, fragments of stone.] Coarse meal; pollard. "King Hardicnute, midst Danes and Saxons stout, Carous'd in nut-brown ale, and din'd on grout ."-King. -Lees; sediments; dregs; grounds. - A kind of thick ale. (Building.) Mortar reduced to a state of fluidity by the addition of water; also, a mixture of plaster (or fine stuff), or putty (or coarse stuff), used to finish off the best ceilings, and sometimes for setting walls, when such finish is required. -v. a. To fill up, as the joints or spaces between stones, with coarse mortar.