Groat
a name given in the Middle other. The silver groat current in England, introduced by Edward III., was hollow on one side and raised on the vived in 1836-1856 in the modern fourpenny piece. Groschen, the German land, introduced by Edward III., was other. The silver groat current in Engcurrent in the N. of Germany, and equal in value to one-thirtieth of a thaler, worth 24 cents, United States currency. saw. It has a medical academy and prior to the World War had manufactures in GRODNO (grod'nō), a town of Poland; cloth and tobacco. The palace erected by current in the N. of Germany, and equal equivalent of groats, were till 1873-1876 edifice. At first a Russian town, Grodno Augustus III. of Poland, is a handsome fell to Lithuania in 1241. Here Stephen to the World War had manufactures in saw. It has a medical academy and prior on the Niemen, 148 miles N. E. of War- Polish diet ratified the second partition of Poland; and here, too Stanislaus Augustus, the last King of Poland, abdicated in 1795. The city was successively captured by Russians and Aus- GROIN trians during the World War and was also in the field of the Russo-Polish campaigns of 1920. Pop. about 64,000.