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Gross

a.
  1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
    A gross body of horse under the Duke.
  2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
  3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
    Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
  4. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
    The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next.
  5. Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.
  6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
  7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
  8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.

Phrases & Compounds
Gross adventure
the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
Gross average
that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
Gross receipts
the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
Gross weight
the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, [or] net weight.

Gross

n.
  1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
    For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle.
  2. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.

Phrases & Compounds
Advowson in gross
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
See under Common, n.
In the gross
in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.