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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rough \Rough\, a. [Compar. {Rougher}; superl. {Roughest}.] [OE. rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS r?h; akin to LG rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 18. Cf {Rug}, n.] 1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically: a Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. ``Rough, uneven ways.'' --Shak. b Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as a rough diamond. c Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet. d Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like as a rough coat. ``A visage rough.'' --Dryden. ``Roughsatyrs.'' --Milton. 2. Hence figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically: a Not courteous or kind harsh; rude; uncivil; as a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. --Prior. b Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as rough measures or actions. On the rough edge of battle. --Milton. A quicker and rougher remedy. --Clarendon. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. --Locke. c Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like as a rough tone; rough numbers. --Pope. d Austere; harsh to the taste; as rough wine. e Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as rough weather; a rough day He stayeth his rough wind. --Isa. xxvii. 8. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day --Shak. f Hastily or carelessly done wanting finish; incomplete; as a rough estimate; a rough draught. {Rough diamond}, an uncut diamond; hence colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rough \Rough\, n. 1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher. 2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. {In the rough}, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs. Browning. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rough \Rough\, adv In a rough manner; rudely; roughly. Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. --Sir W. Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rough \Rough\, v. t. 1. To render rough; to roughen. 2. To break in as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out as to rough out a carving, a sketch. {Roughing rolls}, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars. {To rough it}, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rough adj 1: having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "a rough ride"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"; "unsmooth writing" [syn: {unsmooth}] [ant: {smooth}] 2: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" 3: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough estimate" [syn: {approximate}, {approximative}] 4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" [syn: {rocky}] 5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous}, {fierce}] 6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: {grating}, {gravel}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}] 7: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: {pugnacious}] 8: (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped [ant: {smooth}] 9: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" [syn: {uncut}] [ant: {cut}] 10: not carefully or expertly made "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: {crude}] 11: not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" 12: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" [syn: {harsh}] n : the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short adv 1: with roughness or violence; "he was pushed roughly aside"; (`rough' is informal as in "they treated him rough") [syn: {roughly}] 2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn: {roughly}] v 1: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn: {rough in}, {rough out}] 2: draw up an outline or sketch for something "draft a speech" [syn: {draft}, {outline}]
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