the number of twelve dozen.

Gross Weight, in commerce, the weight of merchandise and goods with the dust and dross, as also of the bag, cask, chest, &c., in which they are contained; and out of this gross weight allowance is to be made for tare and tret.

Grossus, in ancient English law. A villein in gross, villanus in grosse, was one who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord, and was transferable, like personal goods and chattels, from one owner to another.