Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that kind of sale where the goods are taken in bulk, and .not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a piece of land is sold as containing in gross, by estimation, a certain number of acres. Poth. Cont Sale, nn. 256, 309. So called because the buyer acts without particular examination or discrimination, turning his face, as it were, away. Calvin.