資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton.

   2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.

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

            Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
                                                  --Milton.

   4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual
      appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.

            The terms which are delicate in one age become gross
            in the next.                          --Macaulay.

   5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.

   6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross
      mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

   7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross
      sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to
      {net.}

   {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, or net, weight}.