Rough /(?)/

Rough

a.
  1. Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
  2. Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
    More unequal than the roughest sea.
    — T. Burnet.
  3. Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
  4. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
    A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough.
    A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.
  5. Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
    On the rough edge of battle.
    A quicker and rougher remedy.
    Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces.
  6. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
  7. Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
    He stayeth his rough wind.
    — Isa. xxvii. 8.
    Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
  8. Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
  9. Produced offhand.

Rough

n.
  1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.]
  2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
    Contemplating the people in the rough.

Phrases & Compounds
In the rough
in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.

Rough

adv.
  1. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
    Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats.

Rough

v. t.
  1. To render rough; to roughen.
  2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
  3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

Phrases & Compounds
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.