Gross adj. (compar. grosser; superl. grossest) 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.Hence: 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.
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.
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. "The gross of the enemy." "For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle."
2.sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
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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