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Rough \Rough\, a. [Compar. {Rougher}; superl. {Roughest}.] [OE.
rou?, rou, row, rugh, ruh, AS. r?h; akin to LG. rug, D. rug,
D. ruig, ruw, OHG. r?h, G. rauh, rauch; cf. Lith. raukas
wrinkle, rukti to wrinkle. [root] 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.
(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.

More unequal than the roughest sea. --T. Burnet.
(d) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; --
said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough
coat. ``A visage rough.'' --Dryden. ``Roughsatyrs.''
--Milton.

2. Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or
polish. Specifically:
(a) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a
rough temper.

A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. --Shak.

A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds.
--Prior.
(b) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough
measures or actions.

On the rough edge of battle. --Milton.

A quicker and rougher remedy. --Clarendon.

Kind words prevent a good deal of that
perverseness which rough and imperious usage
often produces. --Locke.
(c) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating;
-- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough
tone; rough numbers. --Pope.
(d) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
(e) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a
rough day.

He stayeth his rough wind. --Isa. xxvii.
8.

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
--Shak.
(f) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish;
incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.

{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.
(b) Produced offhand. ``Some rough and ready theory.''
--Tylor.

Rough \Rough\, n.
1. Boisterous weather. [Obs.] --Fletcher.

2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

{In the rough}, in an unwrought or rude condition;
unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.

Contemplating the people in the rough. --Mrs.
Browning.

Rough \Rough\, adv.
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in
their boats. --Sir W.
Scott.

Rough \Rough\, v. t.
1. To render rough; to roughen.

2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
--Crabb.

3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as,
to rough out a carving, a sketch.

{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.

The monument is a great rough granite shaft rising from a mound in the middle of a tawny clearing.
The story goes that a special committee headed by George Washington visited Mrs. Ross in June 1776 and asked her to sew a flag based on their rough design.
The British escapees told London's Daily Mail newspaper that they had spent 25 hours in rough seas after taking the 10-foot boat through the marshes of southern Iraq, into the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and then the gulf.
Raised by her mother, she moved often and sometimes lived in rough neighborhoods.
Presumably, every white face was also rich. Was Sitangkai as rough and unruly as the other towns of the Sulu Sea?
Searchers were using a buoy equipped with a beacon to plot currents in the area where the Blackhawk UH-60a helicopter plunged into rough seas Thursday night, said customs spokesman Robert Viator.
(I have known some open cars to shake so badly that the instruments became a blur on moderately rough surfaces.) The hood is super-efficient, too.
The ride is getting rough for Hughes Aircraft Corp.
But every Conservative seat is at risk. The table gives, in rough order, the seats in which the Tories have the best chance of survival and the 10 best bets for the Liberal Democrats. The author is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
She is starring again with Dudley Moore in "Arthur 2: On the Rocks," which is having a rough time recapturing the gaiety of 1981's original comedy hit.
He has tapped Dole, former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas _ sarcastic tormentors of the Democrats _ among others to rough up his opponent.
A lifeboat capsized in rough seas Sunday as it carried crew members from a leaking Peruvian cargo ship, and two people died and four were missing, the coast guard said.
Congressional leaders worked today at smoothing rough edges in a $14.8 billion budget-cutting package and completing a separate measure eliminating some Medicare benefits.
But she went to school "with all the rough guys from the projects."
The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed down to the bone by the rough ice surrounding a breathing hole that kept the mammals alive.
If it is not, Mr Uhrig can expect another rough ride at next year's annual meeting.
"I have a problem that I turn to conning when things get rough," Russo said.
"It was very rough going.
Khomeini was a healthy, alert 76. His lifestyle was spartan: rough blankets to keep out the cold in the unheated cottage; an apple and a bowl of bean soup for lunch; no television.
"They reported that there was still fire and small explosions in the severely damaged main fuselage and in debris spred widely around in steep and rough terrain," Soenderland said.
The missing Piper Cherokee vanished in rough weather late Monday, but FBI Agent Paul Cavanagh and Trooper Joseph Moynihan were not declared missing until Friday, said Paul Fournier, a spokesman for the Maine Warden Service.
"The seas are too rough to put down any divers right now," Tillery said. "We've got 6- to 12-foot waves." It was the first accident of its kind on the 32-yer-old bridge, Sgt. Kenneth Hardy said.
"When market times are very rough, we do quite well," Price said.
They play sensitively together. The dominant Bohemian is Adrian Clarke's Marcello, incisively sung, an honest sort of fellow who can look a friend in the eye when the going gets rough.
In November, Mrs. Mofford called lawmakers into special session on auto insurance but abandoned it when the going got unexpectedly rough.
He said local rescuers could not reach the crash site because of the rough terrain.
"I am getting sick and tired of my opponent's complaining about the rough and tumble of this campaign, something he does every time just before an election," Bush told a rally Sunday in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
There are also reservations that are just entering the picture, diamonds in the rough that are waiting to be managed and promoted into polished, valuable commodities.
De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. said it is raising the average price of rough uncut diamonds 13.5% because the market is so buoyant.
Newspaper editors were particularly rough on their political opponents back when the First Amendment was written.

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