Gross

[Fr. gros; It. gro o; Sp. grue so; Gr. gro ; L. Lat. gro us, corrupted from Lat. cra us, dense, flat, thick.] Huge; great; exce ively large: -in application to animals. "The crows and choughs... shew scarce so gro as beetles." Shaks. -Thick; huge; corpulent; dense; without tenuity; as, a gro material. "A gro fat man? Aye, fat as butter." - Shaks. -Coarse; rough; crude; inelegant; opposed to delicate; as, a gro sculpture. ( Wotton.) - Stupid; dull; obtuse; without sensibility or quickne of perception. "Tell of her of things that no gro ear can hear." - Milton . -Vulgar; obscene; indelicate; impure; as, gro sensuality, a gro expre ion. - Great; palpable; as, a gro mistake, a gro breach of decorum. - Whole; total; entire, -as opposed to a sum or quantity consisting of several parts or amounts; as, gro proceeds. Gro adventure. (Marit. Law.) The contract of bottomry. See BOTTOMRY. - Gro average. (Mar. Law .) That kind of average which falls on the gro interests involved, or, in other words, the entire value of ship, freight, and cargo; -in contradistinction to particular average . (It is more frequently termed general average .) Gro , n. The bulk; the ma ; the main body; the major, chief, or principal part; as "the gro of the people." - Burke . "In the gro and scope of mine opinion." Shaks . -The number of 12 dozen, or 12 times 12; as, a gro of pens. In gro , in the gro , in the bulk; all parts taken together; the sum-total, or the whole undivided; as, a shipment in the gro . - Advowson in gro . ( Law .) A personal advowson, or one not manorial. - A great gro , 12 gro , or 144 dozen. - By the gro , taken in the lump, or by the quantity. "He hath ribbons.... by the gro ." (Shaks.) - Gro weight. (Com.) The weight of goods or merchandise with that of the dust or dro , or of the cask, package, ., in which they may be contained. After deducting an allowance for tare and tret (and, sometimes, draft), the remaining weight is termed net .