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 merchandises 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.

Groffus, in our ancient law-writers, denotes a thing absolute, and not depending on another. Thus, villain in grofs, villanus in groffo, 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 lord 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-beak, the trivial name of the cocothraustes, or hawfinch, which is the Loxia cocothraustes. See Ornithology Index.

Grossularia, the gooseberry. See Ribes, Botany Index.