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1 definition found 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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