a. Obs. Also crassie. [f. CRASS or L. crass-us + -Y.] a. = CRASS, coarse, thick. b. Sordid, dirty, greasy; = F. crasseux.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Taylor’s Goose, Wks. I. 108/2. Geometry would lose the Altitude, The crassie Longitude and Latitude.
1648. Gage, West Ind., xvi. (1655), 109. They take off the scumme or crassy part.
1858. Sala, Journ. due North, 80. A miserable moujik, in a crassy sheepskin.
