Garous

n. [ F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n. ] 1. A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grouped p. pr. & vb. n. Grouping. ] [ Cf. F. grouper. See Group, n. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. arranged into groups, each having some feature in common.
Syn. -- sorted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Garbupa. ] (Zool.) (a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. (b) The tripletail (Lobotes). (c) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [ Written also groper, gruper, and trooper. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grouped p. pr. & vb. n. Grouping. ] [ Cf. F. grouper. See Group, n. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. arranged into groups, each having some feature in common.
Syn. -- sorted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Garbupa. ] (Zool.) (a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. (b) The tripletail (Lobotes). (c) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [ Written also groper, gruper, and trooper. ] [ 1913 Webster ]