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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hoarse \Hoarse\, a. [Compar. {Hoarser}, superl. {Hoarsest}.]
[OE. hors, also hos, has AS h[=a]s; akin to D. heesch G.
heiser, Icel. h[=a]ss, Dan. h[ae]s, Sw hes. Cf Prov. E.
heazy.]
1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when
affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound;
as the hoarse raven.
The hoarse resounding shore. --Dryden.
2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hoarse
adj : deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or
emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking";
"hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound
powerful but husky:- Virgil Thomson [syn: {gruff}, {husky}]
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