groschen

[GROSS.] A small silver coin used in the North German States, values of a thaler, or about 24 cents. Each groschen is sub-divided into ten pfennings. grō-ser, grō-sert, grō-şi-er, s . [GROSSART.] gros-grain (s silent), a . [Fr. gros , and Eng. grain .] Applied to silk with a heavy cro thread. grō , *gro e, a. & s. [Fr. gros (fem. gro e ) = thick, coarse, from Low Lat. gro us , from Lat. cra us thick, coarse; Ital. gro o : Sp. grue so.] A. As adjective : I. Literally : 1. Thick; fat; bulky; great and coarse. "A gro fat man."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , ii. 4. 2. Coarse; opposed to fine or delicate. "Fine and delicate sculptures are helped with nearne , and gro with distance." -Wotton: Architecture. *3. Thick; dense; not attenuated; not pure; coarse. "They would shake the gro clouds to the ground." Drayton: Barons' Wars, bk. ii. *4. Coarse; unbecoming; inelegant. "The gloomy hue, And feature gro ." II. Figuratively: Thomson: Summer, 888. 1. Dull; stupid; cra ; heavy. "If she doth then the subtile sense excel, How gro are they that drown her in the blood?" Davies. 2. Coarse; vulgar; not refined; indelicate; sensual; obscene. "He shuns the gro er joys of sense." Byron: Corsair, i. 2. 3. Enormous; great; shameful; disgraceful; flagrant. "That gro idolatry, which consisted in the worship of the images of dead men." - Bp. Horsley: Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 37. 4. Whole; entire; total; applied to a sum or amount without any deduction; opposed to net. *5. Plain; palpable; easily discernible. ""Tis gro you lore my son." Shakesp.: All's all that Ends Well , i. 3. B. As substantive: *1. The main body, part, or ma ; the chief part, the ma . "Comets, out of question, have likewise power and effect over the gro and ma of things."-Bacon. *2. The main force or body. "Several casuists are of opinion that, in a battle, you should discharge upon the gro of the enemy, without leveling your piece at any particular person." Add is on: Freeholder. *3. The sum total; the full or entire amount. "I cannot instantly raise up the gro Of full three you sand ducats." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , i. 3. *4. A collective or united body. "After they have separated themselves in many petty divisions, they rejoin one by one into a gro ."-Dryden. 5. The gro or great hundred; the number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve. 1. A great gro : Twelve gro or 144 dozen. 2. In the gro ; in gro : (1) In the bulk, or undivided whole; wholesale. "Trafficking in gro e."-Carew: Survey in Cornwall, p. 65. (2) On the whole; as a whole, without regard to the separate parts. "Some men pa swiftly from the effect they look upon in gro to the most obvious seeming cause." -Digby: Of Bodies, ch. xxxvi. 3. Advowson in gro : Law : An advowson separated from the property of a manor, and annexed to the person of its owner. Crabb thus discriminates between gro and coarse: "These terms are synonymous in the moral application. Gro ne of habit is opposed to delicacy: coarsene to softne and refinement. A person becomes gro by an unrestrained indulgence of his sensual appetites, particularly in eating and drinking; he is coarse from the want of polish either as to his mind or manners." (Crabb: Eng. Synon .)