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   Rough (?), a. [Compar. Rougher (?); superl. Roughest.] [OE. rou, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. rh; akin to LG. rug, D. rug, D. ruig, ruw, OHG. rh, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. √ 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.
   
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   (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.
   
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   More unequal than the roughest sea. T. Burnet.
   
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   (d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, “a rough coat”.  “A visage rough.” Dryden.  “Roughsatyrs.” Milton.
   
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   2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish. Specifically: (a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, “a rough temper”.
   
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   A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. Shak.
   
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   A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. Prior.
   
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   (b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, “rough measures or actions”.
   
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   On the rough edge of battle. Milton.
   
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   A quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon.
   
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   Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. Locke.
   
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   (c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, “a rough tone; rough numbers”.  Pope.
   
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   (d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, “rough wine”. (e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, “rough weather; a rough day”.
   
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   He stayeth his rough wind. Isa. xxvii. 8.
   
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   Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Shak.
   
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   (f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, “a rough estimate; a rough draught”.
   
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   Rough diamond, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. -- Rough and ready. (a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. “The rough and ready understanding.”  Lowell.
   
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   (b) Produced offhand. “Some rough and ready theory.”  Tylor.
   
   
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   Rough, n.
   1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.]  Fletcher.
   
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   2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
   
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   In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, “a diamond or a sketch in the rough”.
   
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   Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.
   
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   Rough, adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
   
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   Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Rough, v. t.
   1. To render rough; to roughen.
   
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   2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.  Crabb.
   
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   3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, “to rough out a carving, a sketch”.
   
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   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.
   
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