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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.</def>

<blockquote>No comic buffoon to make the <b>groundlings</b> laugh. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Groundly</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Those whom princes do once <b>groundly</b> hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. <i>Marston.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Groundnut</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"nut`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The fruit of the Arachis hypog\'91a (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A leguminous, twining plant (<spn>Apios tuberosa</spn>), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. </def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The dwarf ginseng (<spn>Aralia trifolia</spn>). <mark>[U. S.]</mark> <i>Gray</i>. </def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>A European plant of the genus Bunium (<spn>B. flexuosum</spn>) having an edible root of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.</def>

<h1>Groundsel</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"sel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>grundswilie</ets>, AS. <ets>gpundeswylige</ets>, <ets>grundeswelge</ets>, earlier gundiswilge; <ets>gund</ets> matter, pus + <ets>swelgan</ets> to swallow. So named as being good for a running from the eye. See <er>Swallow</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An annual composite plant (<spn>Senecio vulgaris</spn>) one of the most common, and widely distributed weeds on the globe.</def>

<h1>Groundsel</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"sel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Ground</ets> + <ets>sill</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Ground</er></def>

<h1>Groundsill</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"sill`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>, plate <sd>(a)</sd>, under <er>Ground</er>.</def>

<h1>Groundwork</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Ground"work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Group</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Group</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F <ets>groupe</ets>, It. <ets>gruppo</ets>, <ets>groppo</ets>, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. <ets>origin</ets>: cf. G. <ets>krepf</ets> craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See <er>Crop</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; <as>as, a <ex>group</ex> of men or of trees; a <ex>group</ex> of isles</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; <as>as, groups of strata</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.</def>

<h1>Group</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Group</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Grouped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Grouping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>grouper</ets>. See <er>Group</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.</def>

<blockquote>The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in <b>grouping</b> such a multitude of different objects. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Grouped columns</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>three or moro columns placed upon the same pedestal.</cd></cs>

<h1>Grouper</h1> <Xpage=653>

<hw>Group"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Corrupted fr. Pg. <ets>garupa</ets> crupper. Cf. <er>Garbupa</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus <spn>Epinephelus</spn>, of the family <spn>Serranid\'91</spn>, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (<spn>E. morio</spn>), and the black grouper, or warsaw (<spn>E. nigritus</spn>), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The tripletail (<spn>Lobotes</spn>)</def>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>groper</asp>, <asp>gruper</asp>, and <asp>trooper</asp>.]</altsp>

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