[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

            a gross body of horse under the duke. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
      1913 webster

   3. not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception
      or feeling; dull; witless.
      1913 webster

            tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual
      appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
      1913 webster

            the terms which are delicate in one age become gross
            in the next.                          --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   5. hence: disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a
      gross remark.
      pjc

   6. thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
      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
see also:
grosser grossest engross grocer grogram net. 
gross adventure gross average general average gross receipts gross weight 
neat weight net weight 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
gross advowson in gross a great gross by the gross common in gross common 
in the gross in gross 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gross
     adj 1: before any deductions; "gross income" ant: net
     2: visible to the naked eye especially of rocks and anatomical
        features syn: megascopic
     3: of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details
        of the structure appear reasonable"
     4: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" syn: porcine
     5: 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: cryinga, egregious,
         flagrant, glaring, rank
     6: 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" syn: arranta, completea,
         consummatea, double-dyeda, everlastinga, grossa,
         perfecta, purea, soddinga, starka, staringa,
         thoroughgoinga, uttera
     7: 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: coarse, crude, earthy, vulgar
     n 1: twelve dozen syn: 144
     2: the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
        syn: revenue, receipts
     v : earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
see also:
net megascopic porcine cryinga egregious flagrant 
glaring rank arranta completea consummatea 
double-dyeda everlastinga grossa perfecta purea 
soddinga starka staringa thoroughgoinga uttera 
coarse crude earthy vulgar 144 
revenue receipts 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

497 moby thesaurus words for "gross":
   adamic, boeotian, c, circean, doric, rabelaisian, abhorrent,
   abject, abominable, absolute, adipose, afford, aggregate, all,
   all-embracing, all-inclusive, animal, animalistic, arrant, asinine,
   atrocious, avails, awful, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base,
   bawdy, be-all and end-all, beastlike, beastly, beef-brained,
   beef-witted, beefy, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
   bestial, bicentenary, bicentennial, big, big-bellied, blameworthy,
   blatant, bloated, blockish, blowzy, bodily, bosomy, bovine,
   box office, brawny, bring in, broad, broad-bodied, brutal, brute,
   brutish, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, cacophonous, capital,
   capital gains, capitalize on, carnal, carnal-minded, cash in on,
   cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium,
   centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref,
   centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, cheesy,
   chubby, chumpish, chunky, classical, clean up, cleanup, clear,
   clear profit, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, coin money,
   commercialize, commissions, complete, comprehensive, consummate,
   contemptible, corporeal, corpulent, cowish, crass, credit, credits,
   cross-grained, crude, crummy, cumbersome, cwt, damned, debased,
   decided, definitive, degraded, dense, deplorable, depraved,
   despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, disposable income,
   distended, dividend, dividends, doggerel, doltish, downright,
   dreadful, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, dysphemistic,
   earn, earned income, earnings, earthy, egregious, enormous, entire,
   entirety, evident, excessive, execrable, exhaustive, exorbitant,
   extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fattish, fetid, filthy,
   filthy lucre, flagrant, fleshly, fleshy, flourishing, forbidding,
   foul, frank, full, full-bodied, fulsome, gain, gain by, gains,
   gate, gate receipts, gaudy, get, gettings, glaring, gleanings,
   graceless, grained, grainy, granular, granulated, grave, great,
   grievous, gritty, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts,
   gutter, harsh, hateful, heavy, heavyset, hecatomb, hefty, heinous,
   hippy, hoard, holistic, horrible, horrid, hundred, hundredweight,
   ignoble, immoderate, impenetrable, imposing, improper, impure,
   in bad taste, inappropriate, inclusive, income, inconcinnate,
   inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate,
   ineducable, inelegant, infamous, infelicitous, inordinate, intake,
   integral, integrated, interest, intolerable, jungled, jungly,
   killing, klutzy, lamentable, lapsed, large, lewd, little,
   loathsome, long hundred, loud, lousy, low, low-down, lucre, lumpen,
   lumpish, lush, lusty, luxuriant, make, make a killing, make money,
   make money by, makings, malodorous, mangy, manifest, massive,
   material, materialistic, mean, measly, meaty, mephitic,
   meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty,
   nauseating, neat profit, nefarious, net, net income, net profit,
   net receipts, noisome, nonspiritual, notorious, noxious, oafish,
   obese, objectionable, objective, obnoxious, obscene, obvious,
   odious, offensive, omnibus, one, one c, one and indivisible,
   opaque, orgiastic, out-and-out, outlandish, output, outrageous,
   outright, overall, overgrown, overrun, overweight, paltry,
   paper profits, paunchy, pay, pay off, pelf, percentage, perfect,
   perk, perks, perquisite, petty, phenomenal, physical, pickings,
   pitiable, pitiful, plain, plump, podgy, poky, ponderous, poor,
   pornographic, portly, positive, postlapsarian, potbellied,
   precious, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, profound, pronounced,
   proper, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rake-off, rank, raw, realize,
   realize on, rebarbative, receipt, receipts, receivables,
   regrettable, regular, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian,
   repugnant, repulsive, return, returns, revenue, revolting, ribald,
   riotous, roly-poly, rotten, rotund, rough, royalties, rude, sad,
   scabby, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scrubby, scruffy,
   scummy, scurvy, sensible, sensual, sesquicentenary,
   sesquicentennial, shabby, shameful, shattering, shocking, shoddy,
   sickening, small, smutty, sordid, sottish, squalid, square, squat,
   squatty, stalwart, stark, stark-staring, stinking, stocky, store,
   stout, strapping, stupid, substantial, sum, sum total, superlative,
   surpassing, swinish, swollen, take, take in, take-in, takings,
   tangible, tasteless, tercentenary, tercentennial, terrible,
   the veriest, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, thorough,
   thoroughgoing, three-dimensional, too bad, top-heavy, total,
   totality, tote, tubby, turn a penny, turn to account,
   turn to profit, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncourtly,
   uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undeniable, undignified,
   unearned income, unequivocal, uneuphonious, unfelicitous,
   ungraceful, universal, unmentionable, unmitigated, unpolished,
   unqualified, unrefined, unrelieved, unseemly, unsophisticated,
   unspiritual, unspoiled, unteachable, unweeded, unwieldy, utter,
   vile, villainous, viscous, vulgar, wealth, weed-choked,
   weed-ridden, weedy, weighty, well-fed, whole, winnings, woeful,
   worst, worthless, wretched, wrongheaded, yield

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

gross. absolute; entire, not depending on another. vide common.

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

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

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

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.
   headwords:
    gross, ne
    gross

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