And in clear rtream and solemn vision,

Tell her of things that no gross ear can bear. Milton.

Some men give more light and knowlege by thebare stating of the question with perspicuity andjustness, than others by talking ot it in gross con-fusion for whole hours together. . W'atfs.

7. Coarse; rough; opposite to delicate.

Fine and delicate sculptures are helped withnearness, and gross with distance. \\ ottonsArch.

8. Thick; fat; bulky.

His stature was of just height and all propor-tionate dimensions, avoiding the extremes ofgross and meager. Fell.

Gross, n. s. [from the adjective.]

1. The main body; the main force.

The Belgians hop’d, that with disorder’d haste,The deep-cut keels upon the sands might run ;

Or, if with caution leisurely we past,

Their numerous gross might charge us one by one.

Dryden.

Several casuists are of opinion, that, in a battle,you should discharge upon the gross of the enemy,without levelling your piece at any particularperson. Addison's Freeholder.

The gross of the people can have no other pros-ect in changes and revolutions than of publicklessings. Addison.

2. The bulk; the whole not divided intoits several parts.

Certain general inducements are used to makesaleable your cause ingress. Hooker.

There was an opinion in gross, that the soulwas immortal. Abbot.

There is confession, that is, the acknowledgingour sins to God ; and this may be either generalor particular: The .general is, when we only con-fess in g~oss that we are sinful; the particular,when we mention the several sorts and acts of oursins. Duty of Man.

Remember son,

You are a general: other wars require you ;

For see the Saxon gross begins to move. Dryden.

Notwithstanding the decay and loss of sundrytrades and manufactures, yet, in the gross, we shipoff'now one third part more of the manufactures,as also lead and tin, than we did twenty yearspast. Child on Trade.

3. Not individual; but a body together.

He hath ribbons of all the colours i’th’ rainbow ;

they come to him by the gross. Shakesp.

I cannot instantly raise up the grossOf full three thousand ducats. Shakesp.

You see the united design of many persons tomake up one figure: after they hare separatedthemselves in many petty divisions, they rejoinone by one in a gross. Dryd.

4. The chief part; the main mass.

Comets, out of question, have likewise powerand effect over the gross and mass of things. Jiacon.

The articulate souudsare moreconfused, thoughthe gross of the sound be greater. Bacon 's Nat Hist.

5. The number of twelve dozen. [Gross?,French .]

It is made up only of that simple idea of anunit repeated ; and repetitions of thiskind, joinedtogether, make those distinct simple modes of adozen, a gross, and a million. Locke.

Gro'ssly. adv. [from gross.]

1. Bulkily; in bulky parts; coarsely; as,this matter is grossly pulverized.

2. Without subtilty; without art; withoutdelicacy; without refinement; coarsely;palpably.

Such kind of ceremonies as have been so grosslyand shamefully abused in the church of Rome ,where they remain, are scandalous. Hooker.

Treason and murder ever kept together,

As two yoke devils sworn to others purpose;Working so grossly in a natural cause,

That admiration did not whoop at them. Shakesp.And thine eyes

See it so grossly shown in thy behaviour,

That in their kind they speak it. Shakesp.

What! are we cuckolds ere we have deserv’d it.•—Speak not so g~oa,iy. Shuk. Merck , of Venice.

What I have said has been forced from me, byseeing a noble sort of poetry so happily restoredby one man, and so grossly copied by almost allthe rest. Dryden .

If I speak of light and rays as endued with co-lours, I would be understood to speak not philo-sophically and properly, but grossly, and accord-ing to such conceptions as vulgar people wouldbe apt to frame. Newtoiis Opticks.

W bile it is so difficult to learn the springs andmotives of some facts, it is no wonder they shouldbe so grossly misrepresented to the publick by cu-rious inquisitive heads. Swift.

Gro'ssness. n.s. [fromgross.]

1. Coarseness; not subtilty; thickness;spissitude; density ; greatness of parts.

The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,WhosefiTossttess little characters sum up. Shakesp.

And I will puree that mortalgrossness so,

That thou shall like an airy spirit go. Shakesp.

The cause of the epilepsy from the stomach isthe grossness of the vapours which rise and enterinto the cells of the brain. Bacon .

Then all this earthly grossness quit;

Attir’d with stars we shall for ever sit,

Triumphing over death. * Milton.

This being the first colour which vapours be-:gin to reflect, it ought to be the colour of the Ifinest and most transparent skies, in which va- ■pours are not arrived to that grossness requisite to !reflect other colours. Newton's Opticks.

For envy’d wit, like Sol eclips’d, was knownTh’ opposing body’s grossness, not its own. Pipe.

2. Inelegant fatness; unwieldy corpulence.

Wise men, that be over-fat and fleshy, go to so-journ abroad at the temperate diet of some soberman; and so, by little and little, eat away thegrossness that is ill them. Ascham.

3. Want of refinement; want of delicacy ;intellectual coarseness.

1 was three or four times in the thought theywere npt fairies; and yet the guiltiness of mymind drove the grossness of the foppery into a re-ceived belief that they were fairies. Shakesp.

Whatever beauties it may want, ’tisfree at leastfrom the grawnessof those faults I mentioned. Dry.

What a grossness is there in the mind of thatman, who thinks to reach a lady’s heart bywounding her ears ! Clarissa.

Grot. n. s. [grotte, Fr. grotta, Ital.] Acave; a cavern for coolness and pleasure.

In the remotest wood and lonely grot,

Certain to meet that worst of evils, thought. Prior.

Awful see the Egerian grot. Pope.

Grote'sque. adj. [grotesque, Fr. grot-tesco, Ital.] Distorted of figure, unna-tural ; wildly formed.

The champaign headOf a steep wilderness, whose hairy sidesWith thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,

Access deny’d. Milton's Par. Lost.

There is yet a lower sort of poetry and painting,which is out of nature ; for a farce is that m poetrywhich grotesque is in a picture: the persons andactions of a farce are all unnatural, and the man-ners false, that is, inconsisting with the charac-ters of mankind : grotesque painting is the just re-semblance of this. Dryden.

An hideous figure of their foes they drew, }Nor lines, nor looks,nor shades, nor colours true, fAnd this grotesque design expos’d to publick fview. Dryden. 3

Palladian walls, Venetian doors,

Grotesque roofs, and stucco floors. Pope.

Gro'tto. n.s. [grotte, Fr. grotta, Ital.]A cavern or cave made for coolness. Itis not used properly of a dark horridcavern.

Their careless chiefs to the cool gi'ottos run,

The bow’rs of kings, to shade them from the sun.

Dryden.

This was found at the entry of the grotto in thePeak. Woodward.

Grove, n.s. [from grave.] A walk co-vered by trees meeting above.

I look’d toward Birnam, and anon methodThe wood began to move :

Within this three mile may you see itI say, a moving grove. Shak. M aC i eJ ;

Fortunate fields, and groves, and ilow’ryThrice happy isles! ^ *

She left the flow’ry field, and wavin^^jjj^i

Banish’d from courts and love,Abandon’d truth seeks shelter in the

Can fierce passions vex his breast*

While every gale is peace, and every grove Crtrt ^<Is melody ? Thomson's ^

To Gro'vel. v. n. [grujde, Islandicfc ^on the face. It may perhaps con'®.,gradual corruption from ground J e ‘freL. To lie prone; to creep low onground.

The steel-head passage wrought, .a WAnd through his shoulder pierc’d; wber eW

ground _ ^

He groveling fell, all gored in his gushing * ^

What see’st thou there? king Henry’sInchas’d with all the honours of the vodd*

If so, gaze on, and growl on thy face,

Until thy head be circled with the sa, | ie \ eOke niastand beech, and Cornell fruittnGroveling like swine on earth, in fowlcst^^***

Now they lie

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake ofUpon thy belly groveling thou shalt g°*

Let us then conclude that all painter*require this part of excellence: not to °°want courage, and not dare to shew l ' iel’tis to creep and grovel on the ground* 0>

2. To be mean; to be withoutelevation.

1 must disclaim whate’er he can c3I P re jess , ^LHis graveling sense will shew my passiop lo*Several thoughts may be naturaland groveling. Addison 5

GROUND, n.s. [jrjiunb, $&%•£*D « n -] . „ r fici

1. The earth considered as sup® ti*extended, and therefore relat® ^iage, travel, habitation, or almostion. The main mass of terren^is never called the ground. rf

distinguish the terraqueous S 1 0ground and water, but into t^ e r

jib'*'’"

land, and water; again, weunder earth, but under g roU, “)\wf : '']{i.

Israel shall go on dry ground thro u k ' jiv-

Man to till the ground niUt.riMfNone was, and from Hie earth a de«y ) h"

Went up, and,water'd all th e ground.

From the other hill v

d o their fix'd station, all in bright anihe cherubim descended, on the/,’ 7 *

Gliding metcurous.

A black bituminous gorgeBoils up from under ground. , n j

And yet so 2 would b°« nd ’

As if be scorn’d to touch the \ fyorf 1

2. The earth as distinguish

and water. the

I have made man and beast upo 11 jer

^ Jitdp' - * jiif

There was a dew upon all th e £ J ^ s0ft rinlf *

'I hey summ'd their wings* aU jffW 1 '

sublime, » „W.'

With clang despised thegr° un • . „ foV prU'

Too late young Turn,.. tl»?

Far on the sea, still making

3. Land; country.

The water breaks its boilin' s.

And oyertlows the level ground

4. Region; territory.

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