a foreign money, in divers countries, answering to our groat.

GROSS is used among us for the quantity of twelve dozen.

GROSS weight, is the weight of merchandizes and goods, with their dust and dross, as also of the bag, cask, chest, &c. wherein they are contained; out of which gross weight, allowance is to be made of tare and tret.

or Grossus, in our ancient law writers, denote a thing absolute, and not depending on another. Thus, villanus in grofs, villanus in griffo, was a servant, who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord; or a servile person not appendant or annexed to the land or manor, and to go along with the tenures as appurtenant to it; but like other personal goods and chattels of his lord, at his lord's pleasure and disposal.

Gross, advowson in. See ADVOWSON.

GROSS-bean, in zoology, a name by which we commonly call the coccothraustes, called also at other times the bascinch. This is the LOXIA coccothraustes in the Linnaean system.