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A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.

A short coat of coarse cloth. [Obs.] Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.

A coarse sieve or screen.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner. If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.