Grue may refer to:

People

* A pen name used by cartoonist

Johnny Gruelle John Barton Gruelle (December 24, 1880 – January 9, 1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and ...

Grue (surname) Grue, used as a surname, may refer to: * Francesco Grue (1618–1673), Italian potter and painter * Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue (1686–1746), Italian potter and painter; son of Francesco * Joe Grue (born ?), American bridge player * J ...

, notable people with the surname Grue

Places

Grue, Norway Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær. Other villages in the municipality include Bergesida, Grinder, ...

, a municipality in Innlandet county *

Isle-aux-Grues Isle-aux-Grues (French language, French for "island of Crane (bird), cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmag ...

, an island in Quebec, Canada * Grues, Vendée, a commune in France *

Grue (river) The Grue is a torrent (stream), torrent in north-west Italy, a right tributary of the Scrivia, whose course lies entirely within the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont. The river’s source is at Bocchetta del Barillaro, at an elevation of close ...

, a river in north-west Italy

In fiction

* Grue (monster), a fictional predatory creature invented by American author

Jack Vance John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. He also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Ach ...

and featured in the ''

Zork ''Zork'' is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson (programmer), Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company ...

'' series of interactive fiction computer games *

Grue (Freedom City) Freedom City is a fictional, city-based campaign setting for the roleplaying game '' Mutants & Masterminds''. It was designed by Steve Kenson. Publication history Steve Kenson was working on '' Silver Age Sentinels'' and pitched Freedom City as a ...

, an alien race in the role-playing game ''Mutants and Masterminds'' * Grue/Brian Laborn, a supervillain in the web novel ''

Worm Worms are many different distantly related bilateria, bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limb (anatomy), limbs, and usually no eyes. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine ...

Other

* ''Grue'' and ''bleen'', portmanteau words formed from ''green'' and ''blue'', coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his

new riddle of induction The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in '' Fact, Fiction, and Forecast'' as a successor to Hume's original problem. It presents the logical predicates grue and bleen which are unusual due to their time-dependence. Many ha ...

* ''Grue'', a linguistic and translation concept (see

Blue–green distinction in language In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e., expressed using a single umbrella term. To render this ambiguous notion in English, linguists use the blend word ''grue'', from ''green'' and ''bl ...

) *

Crane (bird) Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the Family (biology), biological family Gruidae of the Order (biology), order Gruiformes. The family has 15 species placed in four genera which are ''Antigone (genus), Antigone'', ''Bale ...

, a bird from the Grue family * ''Grue'', an influential science fiction fanzine published by

Dean Grennell Dean A. Grennell (November 1, 1923 – April 10, 2004) was an American firearms expert, writer/editor, and active science fiction fan. He was the managing editor of ''Gun World'' magazine and editor of the science fiction fanzine ''Grue''. Back ...

* An early form of

Nutraloaf Nutraloaf, also known as meal loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue or special management meal, is Prison food, food served in prisons in the United States, and formerly in Canada, to Impr ...

, a food served in prison, known as "grue" to prisoners in the Arkansas penal system as described in the 1978 ''Hutto v. Finney'' decision

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