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Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

Rarely shown or exhibited. [Obs.] Shak.

p. p. of Shew.

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

ery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.

oriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope.

The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor.

of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel. The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral. Milton.

One of the faces of a hewn stone. Gwilt.

To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.

esignating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. -- Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.

e of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split. [Spelt also ufer.] [Eng.] Gwilt.