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ish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

heavy; coarse; clumsy. [Colloq.]

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.

A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet…

A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Dr. Prior. Tang sparrow (Zoöl.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.

A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

A kind of coarse, obdurate land. Loudon.

A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.