the most and best men in it; or, the thickest, and greatest troope in the Große, or bodie, of an armie. Le gros de la gorge. The throat-boll; the Dew-lap. Le gros d'une herbe. The stemme, or stalke of an hearbe. Le gros d'une ville. The most rich, eminent, and able persons in a towne. Vendre en gros. To sell by great; to vent, or vtter his commodities by whole-sale.
Gros: m. The coyne called, a Groat; also, a Dramme, or the eight part of an ounce, of Gold, or Siluer; of other wares, the 32 part of an ounce; or, the 256 part of a pound. Gros de Iacques Cœur. An old coyne of fine siluer, weighing three deniers, and first deuised at Bourges, by one of that name, in the yeare 1448. Gros de Lorraine. A coyne worth ij s. viij d. Tour. Gros de Mets. Is of the same value. Gros de Neesle. Is worth iij d sterl. Gros de Naples. Silke Grogeran.
Gros: m. grosse: f. Grosse, great, big, thicke; also, heauie, sad, weightie; also, dull, blunt, rude, sottish, blockish. Grosse haleine. à grosse haleine. Blowing hard, or with full breath. Estre à la grosse haleine. To gaspe, or gape for breath; to be almost out of breath. Les grosses maisons de la ville. The richest houses; or, the most powerfull, and most eminent families, in the Towne. Gros mal. The falling sicknesse; or, foule euill. Gros voyers. Such as haue meane, or middle Iurisdiction. Grosse teste. Il a vne grosse teste. He is a verie blockhead, grouthead, ioulthead. Il n'a pas la teste si grosse. He is not so wise, or not so well seene in matters; he is not of so deepe a reach, of so great an vnderstanding. Amende grosse. A fine, or amerciament of vj s. sterl. or vpwards. Gros comme le bras. As big as an arme; as sure as a club. Filer gros. Looke Filer. Regarder d'un gros oeil. To frowne, looke big, or sowre on; to cast a surlie eye at.
Gros-bec. An ash-coloured, and great-headed bird, somewhat lesse then a Thrush.
Gros-doux. A kind of faire, great, and sweet apple.
Groselier: m. A Gooseberrie shrub. Groselier rouge. The shrub that beares the red Gooseberrie, beyond-sea Gooseberrie, red Corinthes, or bastard Corants.
Groselles. as Groiselles. Gooseberries.
Gros-grain. The stuffe Grogeran.
Groslé: m. ée: f. Tottered, rocked, shaken. Febves groslées. as Groulées. Grosler. To rocke, totter, or shake, as a weake building in wind; also, as Graller. Groslier. See Grollier. Gros-menil. The name of a certaine hard, and rough-skind Peare.
Gros-oeil. The name of an excellent apple for Cyder.
Grosse: f. A Grosse, or twelue dozen; also, as Grossesse de femme; also, the ingrossement of an Jnstrument, Pleading, Euidence, &c; or an Instrument &c ingrossed.
Grosselles. as Groiselles.
Grossement. Grossely, rudely; heauily, sadly, bluntly, blockishly.
Grosser. To rattle in the throat.
Grosserie: f. Great worke, things wrought by great; also, rudenesse, grossenesse; also, Grosserie; wares vttered, or the vttering of wares, by whole-sale.
Grossesse de femme. A womans grossenesse, greatnesse, or being great with child.
Grosseur: f. Grossenesse, bignesse, thicknesse, greatnesse, fullnesse.
Grossier: m. A Grocer; or, as Marchant grossier. Grossier: m. ere: f. Grosse, rude, vnpolished; blockish, dull, clownish, lumpish. Marchant grossier. That sells onely by Great, or vtters his commodities by whole-sale. Noix grossiere. A Wallnut.
Grossierement. as Grossement. Grossir. To grow big, to wax fat, thicke, or grosse.
Grossissement: m. Thick-making; or, a growing big, fat, grosse.
Grossoyé: m. ée: f. Ingrossed; written faire, or in great and faire letters.
Grossoyer. To ingrosse; to write faire, or in great and faire letters.
Grote: f. A coole roome vnder-ground for the Summer; or, as Grotte. Grotesque. as Grotte. Grotesquer. To lurke in caues, dennes, and obscure places.
Grotesques: f. Pictures wherein (as please the Painter) all kind of odde things are represented without anie peculiar sence, or meaning, but onely to feed the eye.
Groton: m. A little grot, cauerne, or hole; also, as Croton. Grotte: f. A grot, caue, denne, cauerne, hole, (vnder the ground.)
Groüée. La groüée des fruicts; That fruit which falls in the night; wind-falls, night-falls, or night-wind-falls.
Groueteux. as Grouetteux. Grouette: f. Grauell; or, a grauellie soyle.
Grouetteux: m. euse: f. Grauellie; stonie.
Grougnaut: m. A Gurnard. ¶Langued. Grougouler. To rumble, or croake, like the guts.
Grouiller. To moue, stirre, scrall; to make shew, or giue signes, of life by stirring; to spring, as a child in his mothers wombe; also, to rumble, as those that in a house remoue heauie things; also, to swarme, abound, or breake out confusedly in great numbers.
Grouillier: m. as Grollier. Grouillis: m. A stirring heape of wormes, or other vermine; also, the springing of a child in the wombe.
Groulard. The bird called, a Bunting.
Groulé. Febves groulées. Parched, or carled, Beanes.
Grouller. as Grouiller. Groumeler. To murmure, grumble, mutter.
Grouppade: f. A certaine loftie manage, which must be beaten with a liuelie, and setled measure; the turne being more wide, and the horses hinder parts more raised, then in an ordinarie curuet.
se Groyer. To boast, vaunt, cracke of his deeds.
Gruage. Coustume de gruage. The custome, order, or manner, of surueying, measuring, rating, and deliuering, of wood sold in forrests, &c.
Gruan: m. Oatmeale.
Gruant: m. Oatmeale, Groates.
