Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GROUP, or GROOP, n. [It. groppo, a knot, a bunch; Fr. groupe; Sp. grupo. It is radically the same word as croup, crupper, rump; W. grab, a cluster, a grape.]

1. A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
2. In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.