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The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.

Destitute of grass.

A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.

Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser.

See Teosinte.

A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

One who harasses.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.

A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.

A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock. Forby.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.

An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.

The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.

Impassibility.

To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.