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Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being rough.

The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

The quality or state of being tough.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas. To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see. Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. Macaulay.

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]

A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. Chapman.

Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

ncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)

ubstance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. Dryden.

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.