Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F.
   gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E.
   crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened.
   Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.]
   1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
      "A gross fat man." --Shak.
      
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            A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton.
      
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   2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
      
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   3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception
      or feeling; dull; witless.
      
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            Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
                                                  --Milton.
      
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   4. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual
      appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
      
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            The terms which are delicate in one age become gross
            in the next.                          --Macaulay.
      
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   5. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a
      gross remark.
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   6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
      
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   7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross
      mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
      
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   8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross
      sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to
      {net.}
      
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   {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i.
      e., on a mortgage of a ship.

   {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon
      the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; --
      commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill.

   {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are
      diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; --
      distinguished from net profits. --Abbott.

   {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods,
      without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; --
      distinguished from {neat weight}, or {net weight}.
      
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Gross \Gross\, n. [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2).
   See {Gross}, a.]
   1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. "The gross
      of the enemy." --Addison.
      
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            For the gross of the people, they are considered as
            a mere herd of cattle.                --Burke.
      
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   2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times
      twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
      
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   {Advowson in gross} (Law), an advowson belonging to a person,
      and not to a manor.

   {A great gross}, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four
      dozen.

   {By the gross}, by the quantity; at wholesale.

   {Common in gross}. (Law) See under {Common}, n.

   {In the gross}, {In gross}, in the bulk, or the undivided
      whole; all parts taken together.
      
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