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wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

getable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the [Eng.]

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.

A coarse and sour taste in grapes.

te; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

ecially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

o Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or…

as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.

to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken. [Obs.]

To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]

Coarse wool on the legs of sheep. Blount.

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.