Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRIZ'E-LIN, n. [See GRIDELIN.]

GRIZ'ZLE, n. [Fr. Sp. and Port. gris, gray.]

Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. Shak.

GRIZ'ZLED, a.

Gray; of a mixed color. Gen. xxxi.

GRIZ'ZLY, a.

Somewhat gray. Bacon.

GROAN, n.

1. A deep; mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow, or anguish.
2. Any low, rumbling sound; as, the groans of roaring wind. Shak.

GROAN, v.i. [Sax. granian, grunan; W. grwnan; L. grunnio; Fr. gronder; Sp. gruñir; It. grugnire; Ar. رَنَّ ranna, Heb. and Ch. רנן, to cry out, to groan; L. rana, a frog. Class Rn, No. 4.]

1. To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow. For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burdened. 2 Cor. v.
2. To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression. A nation groans under the weight of taxes.

GROAN'FUL, a.

Sad; inducing groans. Spenser.

GROAN'ING, n.

1. The act of groaning; lamentation; complaint; a deep sound uttered in pain or sorrow. I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel. Ex. vi.
2. In hunting, the cry or noise of the buck. Chamb.

GROAN'ING, ppr.

Uttering a low mournful sound.

GROAT, n. [grawt; D. groot, G. grot, that is, great, a great piece or coin; so called because before this piece was coined by Edward III, the English had no silver coin larger than a penny.]

1. An English money of account, equal to four pence.
2. A proverbial name for a small sum.

GROATS, n. [See Grit.]

Oats that have the hulls taken off.

GROAT'S'WORTH, n.

The value of a groat. Sherwood.

GRO'CER, n. [This is usually considered as formed from gross, but in other languages, the corresponding word is from the name of plants, herbs or spices; D. kruidenier, from kruid, an herb, wort, spices; würzkrämer, a dealer in worts, herbs or spices; Sw. kryddkrämare. The French, Spanish and Portuguese use words formed from the name of spice, and the Italian is from the same word as drug. It would seem then that a grocer, whatever may be the origin of the name, was originally a seller of spices and other vegetables.]

A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, liquors; fruits, &c.

GRO'CER-Y, n.

1. A grocer's store.
2. The commodities sold by grocers, – usually in the plural.

GROG, n.

A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened.

GROG'AM, or GROG'RAN, n. [It. grossagrana, gross grain.]

A kind of stuff made of silk and mohair.

GROG'-BLOS-SOM, n.

A rum bud; a redness on the nose or face of men who drink ardent spirits to excess; a deformity that marks the beastly vice of intemperance.

GROG'DRINK-ER, n.

One addicted to drinking grog.

GROG'GE-RY, n.

A place where grog and other liquors are drank.

GROG'GY, a.

1. A groggy horse is one that bears wholly on his heels in trotting. Cyc.
2. In vulgar language, tipsy; intoxicated.

GROIN, n. [Ice. and Goth. grein. Chalmers. But I do not find this in Lye.]

1. The depressed part of the human body between the belly and the thigh.
2. Among builders, the angular curve made by the inter-section of two semi-cylinders or arches. Encyc.
3. [Fr. groin; Gr. ῤιν.] The snout or nose of a swine. Chaucer.

GROIN, v.i.

To groan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GROIN'ED, a.

Having an angular curve made by the intersection of two semi-cylinders or arches.

GROM'ET, or GROM'MET, n. [Arm. gromm, a curb, Fr. gourmette.]

Among Seamen, a ring formed of a strand of rope laid in three times round, used to fasten the upper edge of a sail to its stay. Mar. Dict.

GROM'WELL, or GROM'IL, n.

A plant of the genus Lithospermum. The German Gromwell is the Stellera. Fam. of Plants.