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.