Rough

ruf, adj. not smooth: uneven: uncut: unpolished: unfinished: boisterous: tempestuous: violent: harsh: severe: rude: coarse: disordered in appearance: hasty, as a rough gue : stale: astringent: in Greek grammar, marking the stronger aspiration, equivalent to Eng. h .— n. rough condition, crudene : a piece inserted in a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping: a bully, a ruffian, a rowdy.— v.t. to make rough: to roughen a horse's shoes to keep him from slipping: to shape roughly: to roughen.— v.i. to break the rules in boxing by too great violence.— n. Rough′age , coarse material for bedding cattle, .— adj. Rough′-billed , having a rough, horny excrescence on the beak.— v.t. Rough′-cast , to mould in a rough, unfinished way: to form anything in its first rudiments.— n. a rude model: a form in its rudiments: a kind of semi-fluid mortar containing fine gravel, thrown in a thin coating on outer walls.— vs.t. Rough′-cull , to cull oysters hastily; Rough′-draft , -draw , to trace roughly; Rough′-dry , to dry without smoothing.— adj. dry without having been smoothed.— v.t. Rough′en , to make rough.— v.i. to become rough.— n. Rough′er , a workman who shapes something preparatory to a finishing operation: a piece of woollen cloth in preparation for fulling.— adjs. Rough′-foot′ed , having feathered feet, as a grouse; Rough′-grained , coarse-grained.— v.t. Rough′-grind , to grind roughly.— n. Rough′-head , the iguanoid lizard.— v.t. Rough′-hew , to hew coarsely: ( Shak. ) to give to anything the first appearance of form.— n. Rough′-hew′er .— p.adj. Rough′-hewn , not yet nicely finished: unpolished: unrefined.— ns. Rough′-hound , the dogfish: a kind of shark; Rough′ie ( Scot. ), dried heath; Rough′ing-mill , a metal disc charged with wet emery, ., for grinding gems.— adjs. Rough′ish , rather rough; Rough′-legged , having legs covered with feathers.— adv. Rough′ly , coarsely: harshly: rudely.— ns. Rough′ne , crudene : rawne : harshne : asperity: physical or mental rudene : ( U.S. ) fodder consisting of dried corn-stalks: ( Scot. ) plenty, esp. of food.— adj. Rough′-per′fect , of an actor when nearly perfect in the memorising of a part.— ns. Rough′-rid′er , one who rides rough or untrained horses: a horse-breaker; Rough′-scuff , a coarse fellow: the rabble.— adj. Rough′-shod , shod with roughened shoes, as a horse in frosty weather.— n. Rough′-slant , a shed partially enclosed, for shelter.— adj. Rough′-spun , rude, homely.— ns. Rough′-string , one of the supports for the steps of a wooden stairway; Rough′-stuff , coarse paint laid on after the priming, and before the finish; Rough′-tail , a shield-tail snake.— adj. Rough′-tailed .— n. Rough′-wing , a British moth: a rough-winged swallow.— adj. Rough′-winged .— v.t. Rough′-work , to work over hastily without attention to execution in detail—also n. — Rough and ready , rough in manner but prompt in action; Rough and tumble , said of fighting in any style or by any means: indiscriminate, confused, not too particular about decorum, fairne , .; Rough diamond (see Diamond ); Rough it , to take what comes.— Cut up rough , to become quarrelsome or violent; In the rough , in an unwrought or rude condition; Ride rough-shod (see Ride ). [A.S. rúh , rough; Ger. rauch , rauh , Dut. ruig .]