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-- with to or into. [Obs.] "Shall we clap into it roundly, without . . . saying we are hoarse" Shak.

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.

A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. -- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance…

A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

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.

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

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

istic note of pigeons or doves. The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson.

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.

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.