roughdry (rufdri)

Dry but not smoothed or ironed: as, rough - dry clothes. roughen (ruf'n), v. [ Such difference there is in tongues that the same figure which roughens one gives majesty to another; and that it was which Virgil studied in his verses. Dryden, Ded, of the Æneid. Her complexion had been freckled and roughened by exposure to wind and weather. The Century , XXXVI. 513. II. in trans . To grow or become rough. The broken landscape, by degrees Ascending, roughens into rigid hills. Thomson , Spring, 1. 958. rougher (ruf'ėr), n. 1. One who roughens or roughs out; specifically, a workman who shapes or makes something roughly, preparatory to finishing operations. When the gla [for a lens] is handed to the rougher, it is round in shape. E. L. Wilson , Quarter Century in Photography, p. 35. 2. A piece of woolen cloth as taken from the loom, previous to its preparation for fulling by the operation called perching . Woollen cloth from the loom, called roughers, has an irregular, slack aspect, very different from the same web when it comes to be sold as, say, broad-cloth. 3. A percher. Encyc . Brit ., XXIV. 661.