Great; large; big; bulky.
Unusually large or plump, as from coarse growth or fatness: applied to plants or animals, and implying in men excessive or repulsive fatness.
Coarse in texture or form; coarse in taste, or as related to any of the senses; not fine or delicate.
Coarse in a moral sense; vulgar; indelicate; broad: applied to either persons or things.
Remarkably glaring or reprehensible; enormous; shameful; flagrant: as, a gross mistake; gross injustice.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure: as, a gross medium; gross air; gross elements.
Not acute or sensitive in perception, apprehension, or feeling; stupid; dull.
Whole; entire; total; specifically, without deduction, as for charges or waste material; without allowance of tare and tret: opposed to net: as, the gross sum or amount; gross profits, income, or weight.
General; not entering into detail.
noun.
The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass: now chiefly or only in the phrase in gross or in the gross (which see, below).
noun.
A unit of tale, consisting of twelve dozen, or 144. It never has the plural form: as, five gross or ten gross.
noun.
Thick soft food, such as porridge, etc. Halliwell.
To engross.
After large game: as, to fly gross: said of a hawk.
Relatively large; specifically, visible to the naked eye; megascopic; not microscopic.