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A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. B. Jonson.

To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.

Not to be depended on; weak; unstable. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A young heifer. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.

e of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. John xvii. 9. Love not the world,…

lowed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transientl…

The branch of dendrology treating of the gross and minute structure of wood.

A jade; an old horse or mare. [Written also yaud.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Grose. My fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat. Chapman.

To itch. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.