See Also: Chronograph(medicine)
chronograph(dictionary)
chronograph(dictionary)

crass (iou) and chronograph (iou)


crass (iou)



crass adjective. [kras] L15.
[Latin crassus solid, thick, fat.]
Coarse, thick, dense, gross, (in physical constitution or texture). Now rare. L15.
Grossly stupid, dull, or insensitive. M17.
George Eliot Crass minds..whose reflective scales could only weigh things in the lump. R. A. Knox There is such a thing, you see, as crass ignorance. U. Bentley My action now struck me as crass and blundering.
crassly adverb M17.
crassness noun M16.

chronograph (iou)



chronograph noun. M17.
[from CHRONO- + -GRAPH.]
= CHRONOGRAM Now rare or obsolete. M17.
An instrument for recording time with considerable accuracy; a stopwatch. M19.