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A grotto. [Poetic] Milton.

A groat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

In a grotesque manner.

Quality of being grotesque.

Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

xisting facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.

er as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

Help or support; an auxiliary. Grote.

Ancestral. Grote.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote.

Oddly; grotesquely.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

ns between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.