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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.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

A digging out or up. [R.] "The effossion of coins." Arbuthnot.

To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

One who embosses.

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.

Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.

Boneless. "Exosseous animals. " Sir T. Browne.

Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McE…