⁂ “Grangousier” is meant for John d’Albret, king of Navarre; “Gargamelle” for Catherine de Foix, queen of Navarre; and “Gargantua” for Henri d’Albert, king of Navarre. Some fancy that “Grangousier” is meant for Louis XII., but this cannot be, inasmuch as he is distinctly called a “heretic for declaiming against the saints” (ch. xlv.). =Grantam= (_Miss_), a friend of Miss Godfrey, engaged to Sir James Elliot.—Sam. Foote, _The Liar_ (1761). =Grant´mesnil= (_Sir Hugh de_), one of the knights challengers at the tournament.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Grantorto=, the personification of rebellion in general, and of the evil genius of the Irish rebellion of 1580 in particular. Grantorto is represented as a huge giant, who withheld from Irēna [i.e. _Iernê_ or _Ireland_] her inheritance. Sir Artĕgal [_Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton_], being sent to destroy him, challenged him to single combat, and having felled him to the earth with his sword Chrysa´or, “reft off his head to ease him of his pain.”—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. 12 (1596). =Grass= (_Cronos_), a grass which gives those who taste it an irresistible desire for the sea. Glaucus, the Bœo´tian fisherman, observed that all the fishes which he laid on the grass instantly leaped back into the water, whereupon he also tasted the grass, and was seized with the same irresistible desire. Leaping into the sea, he became a minor sea-god, with the gift of prophecy. =Gra´tian= (_Father_), the begging friar at John Mengs’s inn at Kirchhoff.—Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Gratia´no,= one of Antonio’s friends. He “talked an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.” Gratiano married Nerissa, the waiting-gentlewoman of Portia.—Shakespeare, _Merchant of Venice_ (1598). _Gratiano_, brother of Brabantio, and uncle of Desdemona.—Shakespeare, _Othello_ (1611).