Word Meanings - SLUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

Related words: (words related to SLUMP)

• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• GROSS-HEADED
  Thick-skulled; stupid.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• GROSS
  grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• GROSSBEAK
  See GROSBEAK
• GROSSNESS
  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.
• GROSSULIN
  A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries and other fruits.
• GROSSLY
  In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
• GROSSULARIA
  See GROSSULAR
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS
• TANTAMOUNT
  Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.
• CATAMOUNT
  The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
• PARAMOUNT
  Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount , the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior;
• ENGROSS
  n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak. 2. To amass.
• PARAMOUNTLY
  In a paramount manner.
• ENGROSSER
  1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.
• OVERGROSS
  Too gross.
• ENGROSSMENT
  1. The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift. 2. That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.