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An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

A coarse garnment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

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.

monite. -- 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 liquor…

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.