gros canon, n.m., (print.) French canon.

*groseille, n.f., — à grappes; red currant, white currant. — à maquereau, — verte; gooseberry.

*groseillier, n.m., red-currant-tree, white-currant-tree; gooseberry-bush. — noir; (l.u.) black-currant-tree. V. cassis.

*groseillon, n.m., small currant.

gros-jean, n.m., (—-—s) a vulgar fellow, a countryman, mere nobody. Être — comme devant; to be as you were (i.e., no better off). — en remontre à son curé; (prov.) to teach one’s grandmother how to suck eggs.

grosse, n.f., gross (twelve dozen); large hand (writing); bottomry; (jur.) copy. Contrat à la —; bottomry bond. Prêt à la —; bottomry loan.

grossement, adv., grossly, coarsely.

grosserie (grô-srî), n.f., ironmongery; wholesale. Il ne fait que la —; he is a wholesale dealer only.

grossesse, n.f., pregnancy.

grosseur, n.f., bigness, largeness, hugeness, size, bulk; swelling.