Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shiver; have a chill.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
grouse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To shiver; to have chills.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect, obsolete To
shiver ; to have chills.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant, and quite in season; and, so far as wisdom and wit can be aided by administering agreeable sensations to the palate, my wife took care that our great guest should not be deficient.
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Dunbritton; and plenty of partridge, growse, heath cock, and other game in presents.
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_ Marry, sir, I have some growse and turkey chicken,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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Miss Dilldall, gay little woman of the world, had solemnly proposed that a man should be hired to _growse_ about the meals.
The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927
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No longer self the only thing; no longer a ceaseless growse against everybody and everything; no longer an instinctive suspicion of the man one rung higher up the ladder.
No Man's Land 1912
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Of course you can growse as well as anybody, and you do growse.
Touch and Go 1907
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Mineral appearances as usual. the growse or praire hen are now less abundant on the river than they were below; perhaps they betake themselves to the open plains at a distance from the river at this season.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant, and quite in season; and so far as wisdom and wit can be aided by administering agreeable sensations to the palate, my wife took care that our great guest should not be deficient.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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We saw also several villages of barking-squirrels; great numbers of growse, and three foxes.
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Mineral appearances as usual. the growse or praire hen are now less abundant on the river than they were below; perhaps they betake themselves to the open plains at a distance from the river at this season.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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