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Webster 1913 Edition


Crass

Crass

(kr?s)
,
Adj.
[L.
crassus
thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See
Grease
animal fat, and cf.
Crate
,
Hurdle
.]
Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
“Crass and fumid exhalations.”
Sir. T. Browne.
“Crass ignorance”
Cudworth.

Webster 1828 Edition


Crass

CRASS

,
Adj.
[L., the same as gross, which see.] Gross; thick; coarse; not thing, nor fine; applied to fluids and solids; as, crass and fumid exhalations. [Little used.]