in painting and sculpture, is an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts, fruits, or the like, which have some apparent relation to each other. The word is formed of the Italian groppo, a knot.

Groves, The, several groups of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, seen by Captain Cook in 1769, and extending from north-west by north to south-east by south about nine leagues. There are two principal islands, separated from each other by a channel about half a mile broad, and surrounded by small islands which are mostly narrow strips of land ranging in all directions. The southernmost island is in long. 142. 42. W. and lat. 18. 12. S.