engrossment

[Eng.engro ; -ment.] 1. The act of engro ing or appropriating things in the gro ; exorbitant appropriation or acquisition. "Those hold their immoderate engro ments of power and favor by no other tenure than presumption."- Swift . 2. The act of copying out in large, fair characters; as, the engro ment of a deed. 3. The state of being engro ed, or having the at tention wholly taken up by some subject. "In the engro ment of her own ardent and devoted love."- Lytton . ( Ogilvie .) *en-guard' ( u silent), *en-gard, v . t . [Pref. en, and Eng. guard (q. v.).] To guard, to defend, to protect. ěn-gulf, *In-gulf, v. t. [O. Fr. engolfer: en= in, and golfe a gulf.] To swallow up or absorb as in a gulf.