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Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

See Crassament.

Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.

Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

Wearing a cuirass.

A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.

The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.

A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ.

A corruption of Cutlass.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax. Cutlass fish, (Zoöl.), a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish (Trichirus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies; -- called also saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish.

A damassé fabric, esp. one of linen.

A kind of modified damask or blocade.

To disembarrass; to relieve. [R.]

To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.

An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.