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Webster 1913 Edition
Grocery
1.
The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; – in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
A deal box . . . to carry
groceries
in. Goldsmith.
The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought
grocery
and millinery. Macaulay.
2.
A retail grocer’s shop or store.
[U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Grocery
GRO'CERY
,Noun.
1.
The commodities sold by grocers; usually in the plural.