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An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson. To roup, that is, the sale of his crops, was over. J. C. Shairp.

To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

See Aggroupment.

A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

n quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

Croupy.

See Crupper.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

e, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

es of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.

A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.