From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
dozens
n : a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she
amassed a mountain of newspapers" [syn: tons, heaps,
lots, mountain, piles, scores, stacks, loads,
rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads,
lashings]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Dozen \Doz"en\ (d[u^]z"'n), n.; pl. Dozen (before another
noun), Dozens (d[u^]z"'nz). [OE. doseine, dosein, OF.
doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo
two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]
1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve;
with or without of before the substantive which follows.
"Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to
your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends."
--Shak.
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2. An indefinite small number. --Milton.
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A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.
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