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In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

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

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

A picture coarsely executed. Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.

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).

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.

Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] Spenser.

To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

gh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. [U.S.] Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate. Judd. They did not take out the pungs to-day. E. E. Hale.

With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. -- Rock rabbit (Zoöl.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman. -- Rock ruby (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. -- Rock salt (Min.), cloride of sodium (common…