<adj.all> a beefy wrestler had a tall burly frame clothing sizes for husky boys a strapping boy of eighteen `buirdly' is a Scottish term
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
<adj.all> gruff voices the dog's gruff barking hoarse cries makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky
Husky \Husk"y\, a. [From {Husk}, n.] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. --Dryden.
Husky \Hus"ky\, a. [Prob. for husty; cf. OE. host cough, AS. hw[=o]sta; akin to D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h[=o]sti. See {Wheeze}.] Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
Husky \Hus"ky\, a. Powerful; strong; burly. [Colloq., U. S.]
A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard. --Hamlin Garland. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Husky \Hus"ky\, n.; pl. {-kies}. [Cf. {Eskimo}.] 1. An Eskimo. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. The Eskimo language. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Her breathy, husky sound and narrow vibrato," the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz noted, "were ideally suited to the cool jazz of the 1950s." Miss Christy married Cooper in 1947, two years after she joined the big band.
"A unitary state in Namibia is not going to work," said Diergaardt, a husky farmer whose weathered face speaks of years spent in the African sun.
The 7-week-old dog was described as three-quarters pit bull and one-quarter husky.
"And in between the silence there was conversation and laughter/And music and singing/And shivers up the back of the neck," he says with a soft, husky brogue in "On Hyndford Street."
Barrera's neighbor, Melvin Kelly, testified he and his wife were caring for a stray dog, a young Siberian husky weighing about 40 pounds, when the dog got away from him and went after Barrera's miniature pig next door.
"I feel odd that my blindfold is not here," he said in a husky voice, touching his face.
I have four points right now." The husky, white-haired Mr. Kolter is no stranger to life in the slow lane.
Once he arrived in Buenos Aires, and was met by three husky bodyguards.
Wilson's cast bop and strut and beat out the mesmeric rhythms in husky tempting voices.