Coarse (superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles |
Coarse (superl.) Not refined |
Coarse-grained (a.) Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood |
Grain (v. & n.) See Groan. |
Grain (n.) A single small hard seed |
Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves |
Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc. |
Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights |
Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes |
Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance |
Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. |
Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. |
Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. |
Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation |
Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. |
Grain (a.) Temper |
Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. |
Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. |
Grain (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. |
Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins) |
Grain (n.) To yield fruit. |
Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization |
Grain (n.) A branch of a tree |
Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork. |
Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. |
Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. |
Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc. |
Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. |
Rough (n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface |
Rough (n.) Not level |
Rough (n.) Not polished |
Rough (n.) Tossed in waves |
Rough (n.) Marked by coarseness |
Rough (n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. |
Rough (n.) Not courteous or kind |
Rough (n.) Marked by severity or violence |
Rough (n.) Loud and hoarse |
Rough (n.) Austere |
Rough (n.) Tempestuous |
Rough (n.) Hastily or carelessly done |
Rough (n.) Produced offhand. |
Rough (n.) Boisterous weather. |
Rough (n.) A rude fellow |
Rough (adv.) In a rough manner |
Rough (v. t.) To render rough |
Rough (v. t.) To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. |
Rough (v. t.) To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner |
Rough-footed (a.) Feather-footed |
Rough-grained (a.) Having a rough grain or fiber |
Rough-legged (a.) Having the legs covered with feathers |
hassle scuffle tussle dogfight rough-and-tumble | disorderly fighting |
rough-legged hawk roughleg Buteo lagopus | large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers |
rough-skinned newt Taricha granulosa | newt of humid coast from Alaska to southern California |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
grain moth | moth whose larvae feed on grain |
angoumois moth angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella | small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains |
rough fish | any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait |
draft rough drawing | a preliminary sketch of a design or picture |
texture grain | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance), breadfruit has the same texture as bread, sand of a fine grain, fish with a delicate flavor and texture, a stone of coarse grain |
grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric, saw the board across the grain |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
grain | the smallest possible unit of anything, there was a grain of truth in what he said, he does not have a grain of sense |
rough cut | the first print of a movie after preliminary editing |
feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
grain food grain cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
grainfield grain field | a field where grain is grown |
rough | the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short |
grain | a relatively small granular particle of a substance, a grain of sand, a grain of sugar |
grain merchant | a merchant who deals in food grains |
Rough Rider | a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War () |
rough-leaved aster | a variety of aster |
rough-stemmed goldenrod | a variety of goldenrod |
green bristlegrass green foxtail rough bristlegrass bottle-grass bottle grass Setaria viridis | European foxtail naturalized in North America, often a troublesome weed |
grain sorghum | any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain |
grain | a cereal grass, wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas |
emmer starch wheat two-grain spelt Triticum dicoccum | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany, in United States as stock feed |
grain caryopsis | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn |
mission bells rice-grain fritillary Fritillaria affinis Fritillaria lanceolata Fritillaria mutica | herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers |
rough bindweed Smilax aspera | creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers, Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India |
singletary pea Caley pea rough pea wild winterpea Lathyrus hirsutus | a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States, cultivated as a cover and pasture crop |
horse gram horse grain poor man's pulse Macrotyloma uniflorum Dolichos biflorus | twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder, sometimes placed in genus Dolichos |
scouring rush rough horsetail Equisetum hyemale Equisetum hyemale robustum Equisetum robustum | evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems, formerly used for scouring utensils |
seed corn seed grain | good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting |
grain | pound, equals a troy grain or . milligrams |
grain | dram, equals an avoirdupois grain or . milligrams |
grain metric grain | a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds:mg or carat |
hard time rough sledding | a difficulty that can be overcome with effort, we had a hard time getting here, analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers |
choppiness roughness rough water | used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather |
ethyl alcohol ethanol fermentation alcohol grain alcohol | the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors, used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel, proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline |
grain | the side of leather from which the hair has been removed |
granulate grain | become granular |
granulate grain | form into grains |
rough-dry | dry without smoothing or ironing, rough-dry the laundry |
rough-hew roughcast | hew roughly, without finishing the surface, rough-hew stone or timber |
grain | paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood |
rough-sand | sand roughly, rough-sand the door before painting it |
rough up | treat violently, The police strong-armed the suspect |
ingrain grain | thoroughly work in, His hands were grained with dirt |
rough in rough rough out | prepare in preliminary or sketchy form |
rough-house | treat in a rough or boisterous manner |