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Definition of Grosser
1. a product yielding a large volume of business [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grosser
Literary usage of Grosser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Var. macranthum, grosser. Lvs. ovate-oblong, rather large, thinly grayish tomentose
beneath: fls. white, nearly 1% in. across, the petals blotched yellow at ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... a singular distinction was introduced ; as if birds, whether wild or domestic,
had been less profane than the grosser animals of the field. ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"... of Oxford to stay the suit of Edmund Fraunces, a grosser, against the College,
w°h is said to be poor. I remember the Words are, ob nimiam paupertatem. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"grosser died on the llth of September, 1873, and on the 16th of May, 1874, ...
On the following day, February 28, 1872, grosser executed to the Association ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"In order to intercept the grosser impurities of the gas before passing through
the regulator, a little loose wool is placed between the ingress passage and ..."
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