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grosser
(encz) | grosser,drsnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
grosser
(encz) | grosser,hrubší adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Grosser
(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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grosser
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Engrosser
(gcide) | Engrosser \En*gross"er\, n.
1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.
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2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such
quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price;
a forestaller. --Locke.
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