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One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift.

An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.

Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture. Evelyn.

See Engross.

A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.

Too gross.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

peculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

A funeral feast. [North of Eng.] Grose.

interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. -- Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavo…

A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.