A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.

To form a group; to bring or place together in a cluster or knot; to form an assemblage. The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.