Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GROVE, n. [Sax. græf, graf, a grave, a cave; a grove; Goth. groba; from cutting an avenue, or from the resemblance of an avenue to a channel.]

1. In gardening, a small wood or cluster of trees with a shaded avenue, or a wood impervious to the rays of the sun. A grove is either open or close; open when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below; close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds. Encyc.
2. A wood of small extent. In America, the word is applied to a wood of natural growth in the field, as well as to planted trees in a garden, but only to a wood of small extent and not to a forest.
3. Something resembling a wood or trees in a wood. Tall groves of masts arose in beauteous pride. Trumball.