What is "grosser"

Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. Grosser; superl. Grossest.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]

1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. ``A gross fat man.''
   --Shak.

   A gross body of horse under the Duke.
   --Milton.

2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.

3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.

   Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
   --Milton.

4. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.

   The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next.
   --Macaulay.

5. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.

6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.

7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

8. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.

   Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.

   Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
   --Bouvier.
   --Burrill.

   Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
   --Abbott.

   Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, or net weight.

a. (en-comparative of: gross)