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Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head cov…

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

l, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and acc…

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.

s object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath.

A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

s that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.

nd grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.