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A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] Warner.

Free from dross. Stevens.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak.

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.

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. Milton.

Thick-skulled; stupid.

See Grosbeak.

The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.

Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.

Same as Grossular.

A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.

The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arn…

See Engross.

To cross each other, as lines.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]