Gross
Gross , adjective
[French gros, Latin grossus, perh. from Latin crassus thick, dense, fat, English crass, compare Sanskrit grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Compare Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
1.
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
A gross fat man.
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.
Collocations (4)
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
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.
Gross , noun
[French 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.
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.
Collocations (5)
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.
In the gross or In gross , in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.