crassesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

crassesco, ĕre,

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.