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Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

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

See Crassament.

Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.

Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.

Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.

Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.

esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

(T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbæus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; - - called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.