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s, planks, metal plates, etc. Precepts should be so finely wrought together . . . that no coarse seam may discover where they join. Addison.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form. Pharaoh's serpent (Chem.), mercuric sulphocyanate, a combustible white substance which in burning gives off a poisonous vapor and leaves a peculiar brown volu…

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. Knight.

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

ca. -- Silk moth (Zoöl.), the adult moth of any silkworm. See Silkworm. -- Silk shag, a coarse, rough-woven silk, like plush, but with a stiffer nap. -- Silk spider (Zoöl.), a large spider (Nephila plumipes), native of the Southern United States, remarkable for the large quantity of strong silk it produces and for t…

A coarse round farm basket. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Tusser.

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. Knight.

To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak.

merly used to light fires. Gay. (b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. -- Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size. -- Small fruits. See under Fruit. -- Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper. -- Small hours. See under Hour.…

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. It must be done to-night, And something from the palace. Shak.

spathose. Sparry iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a). -- Sparry limestone (Min.), a coarsely crystalline marble.

ily. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. -- New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

oint, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercial sponge (Spongia o…

The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.