gross (gros)

and n. [OF. gros, m., gro e, f., = Pr. gros = Sp. grue so = Pg. gro o = It. gro o, great, big, thick, gro , Child Noryce he came off the tree, His mother to take off the horse: "Och alace, alace," says Child Noryce, "My mother was ne'er so gro .' Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 43). The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gro as beetles. Shak ., Lear, iv. 6. 2. Unusually large or plump, as from coarse growth or fatne : applied to plants or animals, and implying in men exce ive or repulsive fatne . One of them is well known, my lord: a gro fat man. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. Strong-growing pears are grafted on quince stock in order to restrict their tendency to form gro shoots. Encue. Brit., XII. 213. Burly is a man of a great presence; he commands a larger atmosphere, gives the impre ion of a gro er ma of character than most men. R. L. Stevens on, Talk and Talkers, i IMG:content-2708.png:[blocks in formation] She certainly has talents, but her manner is gro . Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. The terms which are delicate in one age become gro in the next. Macaulay , Leigh Hunt. 5. Remarkably glaring or reprehensible; enor- mous; shameful; flagrant: as, a gro mistake; gro injustice. On that bright Sunne of Glorie fixe thine eyes, Clear'd from gro e mists of fraile infirmities. IMG:content-2709.png:[blocks in formation] game: as, to fly gro : said of a hawk. Howell . gro t (gros), v . t. [ gro en , grosen , gro- cen ; by apheresis from engro , q. v.] To en- gro . Prompt . Parv . , p. 214. gro art (gros'ärt), n. A variant of groser . [Scotch and North. Eng.] gro beak, n. See grosbeak . gro ett, n. [ME., gro et , dim. of gros , a coin so called: see gros2 .] A groat. Halli- gro fult (gros'fül), a . [Irreg. gro , a., + -ful.] Of gro character or quality. gro if i cation (grosi-fi-ka's hon), n. [ gro i- fy + -ation : see- fication .] The act of making gro or thick, or the state of becoming gro or thick; especially, in bot . , the swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. gro ify (gro'si-fi), v . t . or i.; pret. and pp. gros- sified , ppr. gro ifying . [ IMG:content-2710.png:[blocks in formation] Remember, son, You are a general; other wars require you; For see, the Saxon gro begins to move. Dryden , King Arthur. Such are the thoughts of the executive part of an army, and indeed of the gro of mankind in general. Steele , Spectator, No. 152. IMG:content-2711.png:[blocks in formation] gro ne (gros'nes), n. The state or quality of being gro , in any sense; especially, indeli- cacy; rudene ; vulgarity. Stars fall but in the gro ne of our sight. Ford, Broken Heart, ii. 3. The element immediately next the earth in grosne is Sir K. Digby , Nature of Bodies, xxvii. For envied wit, like Sol eclipsed, makes known The opposing body's gro ne , not its own. Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its gro ne . Burke , Rev. in France. gro ulaceous (gros-ū-lā shius), a. [NL. gro ulaceus , gro ula ( groselle ), etc., а gooseberry: see groser .] Resembling or per- taining to the gooseberry and currant. gro ular (gros'ū-lar), a. and n. [ gro ula , a gooseberry: see groser .] I. a. Pertaining to or resembling a gooseberry: as, gro ular garnet. Palladian walls, Venetian doors, Grotesco roofs, and stucco floors. II. n. A grotesque. Nares . Who askt the banes 'twixt these discolour'd mates? IMG:content-2712.png:[blocks in formation] The numerous fictions, generally original, often wild and grotesque , but always singularly graceful and happy, which are found in his e ays, fully entitle him to the rank of a great poet. Macaulay , Add is on. Puck and Ariel, and the grotesque train That do inhabit slumber. of the gooseberry. It belongs to the lime-alumina variety of the species, and the naine is often extended to include garnets of other colors having a like composition. See garnet1. Also called gro ularite . Gro ularieæ (gros ū-lā-ri'ē-ē), n . pl . [NL., Gro ular i a ( gro ula , a gooseberry) + -eœ.] A botanical tribe of the natural order Saxifra- gaceæ , consisting of the single genus Ribes , ter of being grotesque. comprehending the gooseberry and currant: now known as Ribesieæ . See gooseberry , Ribes . gro ularite (gros'ū-lär-īt), n . [ gro ular + -ite2 .] Same as gro ular . grot1 (grot), n. [= D. grot , grotte , a grot, a cave: see grotto .] A grotto. [Now chiefly poetical.] Winding with the wall along the outward North-alley of the Chan cell, at the far end thereof is a Grot hewn out of the rock. Sandys , Travailes, p. 131. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool rece , o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton , P. L., iv. 257. groat. Chaucer . Grotea (grō'tē-a), n. [NL. (Cre on, 1864), af- ter A. R. Grote , an American entomologist.] 1. An American genus of ichneumon-flies, of IMG:content-2713.png:[blocks in formation] grotto (grot'ō), n.; pl. grottoes or grottos (-ōz). [A mistaken form (as if It. masc.) of earlier grotta (q. v.) (also grot1, q. v., = D. grot, spect, as the Grotto del Cane near Naples for its mephitic vapors, the grotto of Antiparos for its beautiful stalactitic and stalagmitic formations, or the grottoes of Capri for their picturesquene . Poetically the name is often applied to any deeply shaded inclosed space, as an umbrageous opening in a dense wood, an overarched depre ion in the ground, etc. On the side of the hills over Salheia there are some grottos cut in the rock; one of them is large, consisting of several rooms. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 126. Alas! to grottoes and to groves we run, To ease and silence, every Muse's son. Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 110. grotto-work (grot'ō-wèrk), n. The arrangement and decoration of an artificial grotto; grotto-like structure. You [an oyster], in your grotto - work enclos'd, Complain of being thus expos'd. Cowper , Poet, Oyster, and Sensitive Plant.