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Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.

Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liqu…

(S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Tay…

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. [Obs.]

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.

A kind of coarse serge.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.