Grumblingly
(Grum"bling*ly), adv. In a grumbling manner.
Grume
(Grume) n. [OF. grume, cf. F. grumeau a little heap, clot of blood, dim. fr. L. grumus.] A
thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood. Quincy.
Grumly
(Grum"ly) adv. In a grum manner.
Grumose
(Gru*mose") a. (Bot.) Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
Grumous
(Gru"mous) a. [Cf. F. grumeleux. See Grume.]
1. Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.
2. (Bot.) See Grumose.
Grumousness
(Gru"mous*ness), n. The state of being grumous.
Grumpily
(Grump"i*ly) adv. In a surly manner; sullenly. [Colloq.]
Grumpy
(Grump"y) a. [Cf. Grumble, and Grum.] Surly; dissatisfied; grouty. [Collog.] Ferby.
Grundel
(Grun"del) n. [See Groundling.] (Zoöl.) A groundling [Prov. Eng.]
Grundsel
(Grundsel) n. Groundsel. [Obs.]
Grunt
(Grunt) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grunting.] [OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian,
G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan.] To make a
deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.
Grunt
(Grunt) n.
1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Hæmulon, allied to the snappers,
as, the black grunt and the redmouth grunt of the Southern United States; — also applied to allied species
of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; —
so called from the noise it makes when taken.
Grunter
(Grunt"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.
2. (Zoöl.) One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2.
3. (Brass Founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
Gruntingly
(Grunt"ing*ly), adv. In a grunting manner.
Gruntle
(Grun"tle) v. i. [Freq. of grunt.] To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]
Gruntling
(Grunt"ling) n. A young hog.
Grutch
(Grutch) v. See Grudge. [Obs.] Hudibras.
