Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GROSS, a. [Fr. gros; It. and Port. grosso; Sp. grueso, grosero; L. crassus; a dialectical variation of great.]

1. Thick; bulky; particularly applied to animals; fat; corpulent; as, a gross man; a gross body.
2. Coarse; rude; rough; not delicate; as, gross sculpture. Wotton.
3. Coarse, in a figurative sense; rough; mean; particularly, vulgar; obscene; indelicate; as, gross language; gross jests. Thick; large; opposed to fine; as, wood or stone of a gross grain.
4. Impure; unrefined; as, gross sensuality.
5. Great; palpable; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice.
6. Coarse; large; not delicate; as, gross features.
7. Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure; as, a gross medium of sight; gross air; gross elements. Bacon. Pope.
8. Unseemly; enormous; shameful; great; as, gross corruptions; gross vices.
9. Stupid; dull. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. Milton.
10. Whole; entire; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, as opposed to a sum consisting of separate or specified parts.