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Gromwell [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. GROM'WELL

2. GROOM, noun

3. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant.

4. A man or boy who has the charge of horses; one who takes care of horses or the stable.

5. In England, an officer of the king's household; as the groom of the chamber; groom of the stole or wardrobe.

6. Groom for goom, in bridegroom, is a palpable mistake.

Gromwell [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.