Gross
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[1913 Webster] 7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. [1913 Webster] 8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. [1913 Webster] 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 weight, or net weight. [1913 Webster] Gross \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. [1913 Webster] For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]  gross adj 1: before any deductions; "gross income" [ant: net, nett] 2: lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable" 3: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross, porcine] 4: visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) [syn: megascopic, gross] 5: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 6: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar] 7: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: twelve dozen [syn: gross, 144] 2: the entire amount of income before any deductions are made [syn: gross, revenue, receipts] v 1: earn before taxes, expenses, etc.  Gross, NE (village, FIPS 20295) Location: 42.94676 N, 98.56887 W Population (1990): 7 (2 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)  gross [grous] Brutto; dick  gross bruttó buja burjánzó durva erôs goromba hájas kövér makroszkopikus nagytestû nagy ordenáré otromba sikamlós szabadszemmellátható teljes trágár vaskos vastag zsíros  gr. 1. (kıs.) grain, grand, great, gross.  GROSS. Absolute; entire, not depending on another. Vide Common.  gross Brutto n gross (twelve dozen) Gros n gross abstoßend; ordinär adj gross fett; dick adj gross grob adj gross krass; schreiend adj gross : gr. Brutto : Br.  Gross, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska Population (2000): 5 Housing Units (2000): 1 Land area (2000): 0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km) FIPS code: 20295 Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31 Location: 42.946756 N, 98.569233 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. 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