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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GROSS , properly thick, bulky, the meaning of the See also:

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

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