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Scaliness :: Scaliness (n.) The state of being scaly; roughness.

Oxtongue :: Oxtongue (n.) A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs..

Critical :: Critical (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject..

Horror :: Horror (n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

Grain :: Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain..

Crizzel :: Crizzel (n.) A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency..

Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice..

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

Thoroughness :: Thoroughness (n.) The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain..

Scabredity :: Scabredity (n.) Roughness; ruggedness.

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

Crabbed :: Crabbed (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste..

Hoarseness :: Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords..

Brusqueness :: Brusqueness (n.) Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

Shagginess :: Shagginess (n.) The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Depression :: Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions..

Inclemency :: Inclemency (n.) Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold, wind, rain, or snow..

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

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