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A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff. [Colloq. U.S.]

A mason who builds rough stonework.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.

imp. of Reach.

Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.

To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish. Moxon.

Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the…

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

See Headborough. [Obs.]

A headborough; a borsholder.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ess of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.