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y vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. [U.S.] Bartlett.

The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. Knight.

ng hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. [Colloq.] A. Trollope.

An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.

A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.

The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe. -- Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. -- Rock sparrow. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus Petronia, as P. stulla, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow (Pucæa ruficeps). -- Rock…

of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice.

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically:

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.