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A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

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.

rasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

Pertaining to agrostography.

A description of the grasses.

Pertaining to agrostology.

One skilled in agrostology.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

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.