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, n. [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. 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.
Gross"beak` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Grosbeak.
Gross"-head`ed (?), a. Thick- skulled; stupid.
Gross`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Gross + L. ficare (in comp.) to make. See -
fy.] 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
2. (Bot.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization.
Henslow.
Gross"ly, adv. In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy;
shamefully; disgracefully.
Gross"ness, n. The state or quality of being gross; thickness;
corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of
delicacy.
Dr. T. Dwight.
Gros"su*lar (?), a. [NL. grossularius, from Grossularia a subgenus of
Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See Gooseberry.]
Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.
Gros"su*lar, n. [See Grossular, a.] (Min.) A translucent garnet of a
pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also
grossularite.
||Gros`su*la"ria (?), n. [NL. See Grossular.] (Min.) Same as Grossular.
Gros"su*lin (?), n. [See Grossular.] (Chem.) A vegetable jelly,
resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other
fruits.
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Grot (grt), n. [F. grotte, It. grotta. See Grotto.] A grotto. [Poetic]
Milton.
Grot, Grote (&?;), n. A groat. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gro*tesque" (gr*tsk"), a. [F., fr. It. grottesco, fr. grotta grotto.
See Grotto.] Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike;
wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms
and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design."
Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.
Gro*tesque, n. 1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old
crypts and grottoes. Dryden.