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Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot.

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.

ault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. [Obs.] Chapman. When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. Tyndale.

, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. Addison.

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv.

r, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. -- Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass (Chrysopogon nutans), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. Gray. -- Indian hemp. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Apocynum (A. cannabinum), having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous b…

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timation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations. I scorn your coarse insinuation. Cowper.

oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber. [Written also istle.]

A coarse and cheap mediæval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather. Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad. Sir J. Harrington.

wild goat (Capra Jemlaica) which inhabits the loftiest mountains of India. It has long, coarse hair, forming a thick mane on its head and neck.

A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.