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Rough
·noun Produced offhand. II. Rough ·noun Boisterous weather. III. Rough ·adv In a rough manner; rud...

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rough
To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the b...

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rough
or Roughy, or Ruffy,or Ruffie n. a Victorian fish, Arripisgeorgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Percid...

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Rough-footed
·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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Rough-grained
·adj Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not poli...

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Rough-legged
·adj Having the legs covered with feathers; — said of a bird. ...

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rough music
Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and...

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rough fig
n. See under fig-tree. ...

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rough books
Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate entries of expenditure. ...

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rough nauts
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rough music
Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but...

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rough-spars
Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c. ...

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rough-tree
An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to any mast, or other spar above the ship's ...

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rough-leaved fig
n. See under fig-tree. ...

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rough-tree timber
Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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