I.v. inch., to grow thick, to thicken, grow dense or hard, grow large or fat (post-Aug.; “most freq. in Pliny the elder): turtures milio, etc.,” Col. 8, 9, 2: “sues,” Plin. 13, 18, 32, § 110: “ceparum capita,” id. 19, 6, 32, § 103: “pili quadrupedibus senectute,” id. 11, 39, 94, § 231: “mel (opp. dilutum),” id. 11, 13, 13, § 32; cf.: “vinum vetustate,” id. 23, 1, 22, § 40: “aër in nubes,” id. 2, 43, 44, § 114: “crassescente limo,” id. 33, 5, 26, § 86.
crassesco , ĕre,