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

See Crassament.

Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.

Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [Obs.]

An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

Wearing a cuirass.

A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.

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

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

To disembarrass; to relieve. [R.]

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.

A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

See Dinoceras.

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.

Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

Doob grass.