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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Group

Group, n.

noun

(grōop), n. [Fr. groupe, grouppe, It. gruppo, groppo, Sp. grupo, gorupo, cluster, bunch, packet. Cf. A-S. crop, crop, top, bunch, Ger. kropf, a scrofulous tumor, Icel. kryppa, humped. Cf. CROUP.]

  1. A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
  2. An assemblage of figures or objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata, animals, &c.
  3. (Mus.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, &c., notes tied together;—sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any musical ornament consisting of several short tones.

Group, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. GROUPED (grōopt); p. pr. & vb. n. GROUPING.] [Fr. grouper, groupper. See supra.] To form a group of; to arrange in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage.

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