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.
GROSS Gross, n. Etym: [F. 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." Addison. For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. Burke.
2. sing. & pl.
Defn: 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.
GROSSBEAK
Gross"beak`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Grosbeak.