Definition of rough

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Rough (n.) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.

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Tooth :: Tooth (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through..
Grater :: Grater (a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs..
Choke Pear :: Choke pear () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth..
Scabredity :: Scabredity (n.) Roughness; ruggedness.
Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..
Pererration :: Pererration (n.) A wandering, or rambling, through various places..
Coupure :: Coupure (n.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
Pervestigation :: Pervestigation (n.) Thorough investigation.
Thrum :: Thrum (v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface..
Slumpy :: Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Endorhizous :: Endorhizous (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants..
Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure..
Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..
Smell :: Smell (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
Bowknot :: Bowknot (n.) A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied..
Cognatus :: Cognatus (n.) A person connected through cognation.
Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Mouth :: Mouth (n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
Empalement :: Empalement (n.) A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
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