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Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] F. Junius.

As a whole; in gross; for the most part. His general behavior vain, ridiculous. Shak.

wer; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.

Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.

a weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop, pasture and hay. Agrostis vulgaris. Red-topped buffalo grass, forage. Northwest. Poa tenuifolia. Reed canary grass, of slight value. Phalaris arundinacea. Reed meadow grass, hay. North. Glyceria aquatica. Ribbon grass, a striped leaved form of Reed…

In a gross or indelicate manner. [Obs.] You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.

The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.

Gross; indelicate; indecent. [Obs.] Marston.

The whole.; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.

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

The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.

To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. The queen immersed in such a trance. Tennyson. It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.

Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

mplicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

anguage. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

s; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.