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A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments. They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine . . . repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs. The mastiffs, . . . deeming he had been a bear, would fain have baited him. Holinshed.

Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug. Beau. & Fl.

Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. [Obs.] Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugæ of the stomach.

Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled. Dana.

ace; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road. The rugged bark of some broad elm. Milton.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

Rugged; rough. [Obs.] "With ruggy, ashy hairs." Chaucer.

A nappy cloth. [Obs.] Wiseman.

An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

The quality or state of being rugose.

Wrinkled; rugose.

Somewhat rugose.

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

Containing clay and iron.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.