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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton.
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.
--Milton.
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 --Macaulay.
5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as a gross medium.
6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as a gross
mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
7. 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}. --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, or net, weight}.
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