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Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species. Meadow fescue, pasture and hay. Festuca elatior. Meadow foxtail, pasture, hay, lawn. North. Alopecurus pratensis. Meadow grass, pas…

rinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

oisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienn…

A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

The coarse part of meal.

A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.

In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.

Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.

Coarse meal. [Obs.]

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.

Coarseness of features.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

Coarseness of features.