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A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff. [Colloq. U.S.]

A mason who builds rough stonework.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.

imp. of Reach.

Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.

To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish. Moxon.

Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.

imp. sing. of See. Chaucer.

Suicide. Shak.

Taught by one's own efforts.

A shockdog.

extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.

One who slaughters.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

One employed in slaughtering. Shak.

Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

Full of sloughs, miry.