gross

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Exclusive of deductions; total: gross profits. See Synonyms at whole.
2. adj. Unmitigated in any way; utter: gross incompetence.
3. adj. Glaringly obvious: gross injustice. See Synonyms at flagrant.
4. adj. Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude: "It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross” ( Thomas H. Huxley).
5. adj. Offensive; disgusting.
6. adj. Lacking sensitivity or discernment; unrefined.
7. adj. Carnal; sensual.
8. adj. Overweight; corpulent.
9. adj. Dense; profuse.
10. adj. Broad; general: the gross outlines of a plan.
11. n. The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
12. n. A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
13. v. To earn as a total income or profit before deductions.
14. gross out Slang To fill with disgust; nauseate: "The trick in making a family film . . . is finding ways to interest grown-ups without boring, confusing, or grossing out the younger set” ( Christian Science Monitor).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Great; large; big; bulky.
2. Unusually large or plump, as from coarse growth or fatness: applied to plants or animals, and implying in men excessive or repulsive fatness.
3. Coarse in texture or form; coarse in taste, or as related to any of the senses; not fine or delicate.
4. Coarse in a moral sense; vulgar; indelicate; broad: applied to either persons or things.
5. Remarkably glaring or reprehensible; enormous; shameful; flagrant: as, a gross mistake; gross injustice.
6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure: as, a gross medium; gross air; gross elements.
7. Not acute or sensitive in perception, apprehension, or feeling; stupid; dull.
8. Whole; entire; total; specifically, without deduction, as for charges or waste material; without allowance of tare and tret: opposed to net: as, the gross sum or amount; gross profits, income, or weight.
9. General; not entering into detail.
10. n. The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass: now chiefly or only in the phrase in gross or in the gross (which see, below).
11. n. A unit of tale, consisting of twelve dozen, or 144. It never has the plural form: as, five gross or ten gross.
12. n. Thick soft food, such as porridge, etc. Halliwell.
13. After large game: as, to fly gross: said of a hawk.
14. To engross.
15. Relatively large; specifically, visible to the naked eye; megascopic; not microscopic.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Disgusting.
2. adj. Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
3. adj. Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat.
4. adj. Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful
5. adj. the whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
6. adj. Dull.
7. n. Twelve dozen = 144.
8. n. The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
9. n. The bulk, the mass, the masses.
10. v. To earn money, not including expenses.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
2. adj. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
3. adj. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
4. adj. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
5. adj. Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive.
6. adj. Thick; dense; not attenuated.
7. adj. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful.
8. adj. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; ; -- opposed to net.
9. n. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
10. n. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
2. v. earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
3. adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
4. adj. lacking fine distinctions or detail
5. n. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
6. adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
7. adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
8. n. twelve dozen
9. adj. before any deductions
10. adj. repellently fat