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Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( superl.) Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

(2): ( superl.) Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

(3): ( superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; - opposed to net.

(4): ( a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.

(5): ( sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.

(6): ( superl.) Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.

(7): ( superl.) Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.

(8): ( superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.

(9): ( superl.) Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.