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GROSS

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 617 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GROSS , properly thick, bulky, the meaning of the
Late
  Lat. grossus. The Latin word has usually been taken as cognate with crassus, thick, but this is now doubted. It also appears not to be connected with the Ger. gross, a Teutonic word represented in
English
  by "
great
 ." Apart from its
direct
  meaning,,
and such figurative senses as coarse, vulgar or flagrant, the
chief
  uses are whole, entire, without deduction, as opposed to " net," or as applied to that which is sold in bulk as opposed to "
retail
  " (cf. "
grocer
  " and "
engrossing
  "). As a unit of tale, "gross" equals 12 dozen, 144, sometimes known as " small gross," in contrast with "
great
  gross," i.e. 12 gross, 144 dozen. As a technical expression in
English
  common law, " in gross" is applied to an incorporeal
hereditament
  attached to the person of an owner, in contradistinction to one which is appendant or appurtenant, that is, attached to the ownership of
land
  (see CoMMONs).


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