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Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim. "Nick looked sour and grum." Arbuthnof.

ed complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more. Prior.

One who grumbles.

In a grumbling manner.

A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood. Quincy.

In a grum manner.

Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.

Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.

The state of being grumous.

In a surly manner; sullenly. [Colloq.]

Surly; dissatisfied; grouty. [Collog.] Ferby.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

imits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. Having food rainment, let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. -- Currant borer (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect that…

an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.

To murmur; to grumble. [Obs.] What aileth you, thus for grucche and groan. Chaucer.