_Mrs. Grub_, a wealthy city woman, who has moved from the east to the fashionable west quarter of London, and has abandoned merchants and tradespeople for the gentry. _Emily Grub_, called _Milly_, the handsome daughter of Jonathan. She marries Captain Bevil of the Guards.—O’Brien, _Cross Purposes_. =Grub´binol=, a shepherd who sings with Bumkinet a dirge on the death of Blouzelinda. Thus wailed the louts in melancholy strain, Till bonny Susan sped across the plain; They seized the lass, in apron clean arrayed, And to the ale-house forced the willing maid; In ale and kisses they forgot their cares, And Susan, Blouzelinda’s loss repairs. Gay, _Pastoral_, v. (1714). (An imitation of Virgil’s _Ecl._, v. “Daphnis.”) =Gru´dar and Bras´solis.= Cairbar and Grudar both strove for a spotted bull “that lowed on Golbun Heath,” in Ulster. Each claimed it as his own, and at length fought, when Grudar fell. Cairbar took the shield of Grudar to Brassolis, and said to her, “Fix it on high within my hall; ’tis the armor of my foe;” but the maiden, “distracted, flew to the spot, where she found the youth in his blood,” and died. Fair was Brassolis on the plain. Stately was Grudar on the hill.—Ossian, _Fingal_, I. =Grueby= (_John_), servant to Lord George Gordon. An honest fellow, who remained faithful to his master to the bitter end. He twice saved Haredale’s life; and, although living under Lord Gordon and loving him, detested the crimes into which his master was betrayed by bad advice and false zeal.—C. Dickens, _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841). =Grugeon=, one of Fortunio’s seven attendants. His gift was that he could eat any amount of food without satiety. When Fortunio first saw him, he was eating 60,000 loaves for his breakfast.—Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“Fortunio,” 1682). =Grum´ball= (_The Rev. Dr._), from Oxford, a papist conspirator with Redgauntlet.—Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.) =Grumbo=, a giant in the tale of _Tom Thumb_. A raven having picked up Tom Thumb, dropped him on the flat roof of the giant’s castle. When old Grumbo went there to sniff the air, Tom crept up his sleeve; the giant, feeling tickled, shook his sleeve, and Tom fell into the sea below. Here he was swallowed by a fish, and the fish, being caught, was sold for King Arthur’s table. It was thus that Tom got introduced to the great king, by whom he was knighted. =Grumio=, one of the servants of Petruchio.—Shakespeare, _Taming of the Shrew_ (1594).