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Gross
King James Dictionary
or GROSS, a. L. crassus.
1. Thick bulky particularly applied to animals fat corpulent as a gross man a gross body.
2. Coarse rude rough not delicate as gross sculpture.
3. Coarse, in a figurative sense rough mean particularly, vulgar obscene indelicate as gross language gross jests.
4. Thick large opposed to fine as wood or stone of a gross grain.
5. Impure unrefined as gross sensuality.
6. Great palpable as a gross mistake gross injustice.
7. Coarse large not delicate as gross features.
8. Thick dense not attenuated not refined or pure as a gross medium of sight gross air gross elements.
9. Unseemly enormous shameful great as gross corruptions gross vices.
10. Stupid dull.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
11. Whole entire as the gross sum, or gross amount, as opposed to a sum consisting of separate or specified parts.
GROSS, n. The main body the chief part the bulk the mass as the gross of the people. We now use bulk.
1. The number of twelve dozen twelve times twelve as a gross of bottles. It never has the plural form. We say, five gross or ten gross.
In the gross, in gross, in the bulk, or the whole undivided all parts taken together.
By the gross, in a like sense.
Gross weight, is the weight of merchandize or goods, with the dust and dross, the bag, cask, chest, &c., in which they are contained, for which an allowance is to be made of tare and tret. This being deducted, the remainder or real weight is denominated neat or net weight. Gross weight has lately been abolished in Connecticut by statute, May, 1827.
In English law, a villain in gross, was one who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord, and was transferrable by deed, like chattels, from one owner to another.
Advowson in gross, an advowson separated from the property of a manor,and annexed to the person of its owner.
Common in gross, is common annexed to a man's person, and not appurtenant to land.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Gross'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gross.html.
