growse

• “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.”

  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

• “Dunbritton; and plenty of partridge, growse, heath cock, and other game in presents.”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “_ Marry, sir, I have some growse and turkey chicken,”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

• “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

• “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

• “Of course you can growse as well as anybody, and you do growse.”

  Touch and Go

• “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

• “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

• “We saw also several villages of barking-squirrels; great numbers of growse, and three foxes.”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

• “The next morning 9th, as there was no game and it would have been inconvenient to send it back sixty miles to the fort, they returned up the river, and for three days hunted along the banks and plains, and reached the fort in the evening of the twelfth much fatigued, having walked thirty miles that day on the ice and through the snow in many places knee deep, the moccasins too being nearly worn out: the only game which they saw besides what is mentioned, was some growse on the sandbars in the river.”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

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