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Gross receipts
(gcide) | 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.
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A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton.
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2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception
or feeling; dull; witless.
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Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
--Milton.
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4. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual
appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
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The terms which are delicate in one age become gross
in the next. --Macaulay.
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5. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a
gross remark.
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6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
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7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross
mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross
sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to
net.
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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.
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Gross receipts
(gcide) | Receipt \Re*ceipt"\ (r[-e]*s[=e]t"), n. [OE. receite, OF.
recete, recepte, F. recette, fr. L. recipere, receptum, to
receive. See Receive.]
1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your
letter." --Shak.
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2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. [Obs.]
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Thy kind receipt of me. --Chapman.
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3. Capability of receiving; capacity. [Obs.]
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It has become a place of great receipt. --Evelyn.
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4. Place of receiving. [Obs.]
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He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt
of custom. --Matt. ix. 9.
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5. Hence, a recess; a retired place. [Obs.] "In a retired
receipt together lay." --Chapman.
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6. A formulary according to the directions of which things
are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for
making sponge cake.
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She had a receipt to make white hair black. --Sir T.
Browne.
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7. A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods
delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
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8. That which is received; that which comes in, in
distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away,
and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts
amounted to a thousand dollars.
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Gross receipts. See under Gross, a.
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