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Rude :: Rude (superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

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

Roughness :: Roughness (n.) The quality or state of being rough.

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

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..

Soft :: Soft (adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced..

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..

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

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

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

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

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

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

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

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..

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

Coarseness :: Coarseness (n.) The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language..

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

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

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