I.thick (late Lat.): “virga,” Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 10, 33.—Comp.: “vestis grossior,” Sulp. Sev. Dal. 1, 21; Vulg. Ezech. 41, 25; 1 Reg. 12, 10; 2 Chron. 10, 10.—Sup., Cassiod. in Psa. 29, 12; cf.: grossus παχύς, Gloss. Philox.—Hence, adv. only comp.: gros-sĭus , more roughly: “definire,” Aug. de Duab. Anim. 11, 15.
grossus , a, um, adj. kindred with crassus,