grossescere

grossescere [LL] 1 to swell, become large (esp. w. ref. to inflamed part of body). b to increase, worsen (of illness). glaucoma quo plerumque ‥ palpebrae graviter ~unt Aldh. VirgP 22; brachio ‥ ~ente Bede HE V 3 (v. flexio 1a); genu correptum ‥ acri coepit tumore ~ere Id. CuthbP 2; quum ‥ manus ‥ tabido grassantis tumore veneni in dies ~erent Gosc. Mir. Iv. lxix; lingua ‥ grocessere cepit R. Cold. Cuthb. 132; dum macra transfertur ad pinguia turget avena / et male grossessit que levis ante fuit Gir. Symb. II 35; to be grete, valere ‥ grandere, grandescere, grossere, ~ere CathA.  b tumuitque podagricus humor / grossescente lue Wulf. Swith. I 1455. 2 to thicken, coarsen. in senectute cutis ~escit et indurescit [ME: in elde þe skyn wexith greet and hard], contrahitur et corrugatur apud senectutem propter defectum caloris et consumptionem humoris naturalis Bart. Angl. V 64.