engrossing hand (eng rosing hand)

The handwriting employed in engro ing. See enengro ment (en-gros'ment), n. [ Which clause, being approved by all parties, was in the king's presence entered in the bill that his majesty had signed; and being afterwards added to the engro ment, it was again thus reformed. Clarendon, Life, II. 495. 4. The state of being engro ed or entirely occupied about something, to the exclusion of other things; appropriation; absorption. In the engro ment of her own ardent and devoted love. Bulwer.