Word Finder - coarse

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Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture.

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Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.

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coarse language

The river abounds in coarse fish.

Silk fabrics, coarse woollen cloth, paper and clocks are manufactured.

Loud, coarse laughter and joyous shouts ensued.

The wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity to the Emperor shocked Rostov.

These vary in form, but essentially they consist of a stem of porcelain, coarse earthenware, glass or other non-conducting substance, protected by an overhanging roof or screen.

Local industries include the manufacture of coarse cloth, esparto fabrics, oil and flour.

The difference between schists and gneisses is mainly that the latter have less highly developed foliation; they also, as a rule, are more coarse grained, and contain far more quartz and felspar, two minerals which rarely assume platy or acicular forms, and hence do not lead to the production of a fissile character in the rocks in which they are important constituents.

Ramie fibre and jute are available for coarse cloth; cotton weaving is almost non-existent.

The temples on the east side of the Otolum are distinguished by tall narrow vaults, perforated by numerous square openings giving the appearance of coarse lattice work.

The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.

The sensuality which characterized the period appears in it, but in a less coarse form than in the great work of Rabelais; and there is 'a poetical spirit which, except in rare instances, is absent from Pantagruel.

It has manufactures of coarse cloth, spirits and soap. The nearest railway station is Calasparra, 6 m.

The chief cultivated plants are maize, the sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, coffee and especially henequen, the so-called "Sisal hemp," which is a strong, coarse fibre obtained from the leaves of the Agave rigida, var.

The wall between them is perforated, giving passage to coarse strands of protoplasm.

At his death in 1786 he was succeeded by his son Charles, the notorious "Jockey of Norfolk," the big, coarse, generous, slovenly, hard-drinking Whig of whom all the memoirwriters of his age have their anecdotes.

But in private he indulged in horseplay and very coarse immorality.

The meal, in fact, is so rich in protein that it is best utilized as a food for animals when mixed with some coarse fodder, thus furnishing a more evenly-balanced ration.

Common throughout the northern and middle states and Canada, the red oak attains a large size only on good soils; the wood is of little value, being coarse and porous, but it is largely used for cask-staves; the bark is a valuable tanning material.

In the paraschists, though fossils are exceedingly rare, sedimentary structures such as bedding and the alternation of laminae of fine and coarse deposit may frequently be preserved.

He was free in his conversation, and his humour, of which he had a good deal, was apt to take the form of rather coarse jokes.

The simple cap was made of thick, coarse woolen cloth.

It may be that poorer people could only afford to buy the coarse wares.

The ruling caste in Nigeria, on the other hand, despise their pastoral brethren, and through generations of polygamy with the conquered tribes have become more Negroid in type, black, burly and coarse featured.

Celts, of the usual late neolithic type, were generally of green jasper; hoe-blades (looking almost exactly like palaeolithic haches a main) of chert or coarse limestone; hammers of granite; mace-heads, of identical type with the early Egyptian, of diorite and limestone; nails of obsidian or smoky quartz, often beautifully made.

The poison is extracted by soaking the bruised or grated roots in water, after which the coarse flour is roasted.

The midland region is characterized by grass lands (the Natal grasses are long and coarse) and by considerable areas of flat-topped thorn bush mimosa.

Each side of the octagon is covered with a large relief of a Biblical subject, very dull in style and coarse in execution.

He sees men all defiled by coarse thoughts, coarse ways of living cruelties.

Control allocation of coarse grains might well tend in that direction.

Whalsay is built of coarse gneisses and schists.

They are after the manner of Martial, and many of them are coarse.

The other rocks include igneous breccias, shales, coarse conglomerates and grits.

In the words of Dean Milman, "the superior, once a man bowed to the earth with humility, care-worn, pale, emaciated, with a coarse habit bound with a cord, with naked feet, had become an abbot on his curvetting palfrey, in rich attire, with his silver cross before him, travelling to take his place amid the lordliest of the realm."

He had a thorough knowledge of the private and indirect motives which influence politicians, and his genial attractive manner, easy temper and vivacious, if occasionally coarse, wit helped to confer on him a social distinction which led many to take for granted his eminence as a statesman.

The fish of the lagoons and streams are coarse, and some of them primitive in type; but two or three kinds, found generally in the large rivers, are much prized.

Finally, in the S.E., towards the Caspian, on the slopes of the southern Urals and the plateau of Obshchiy Syrt, as also in the interior of the Crimea, and in several parts of Bessarabia, there are large tracts of real desert, buried under coarse sand and devoid of vegetation.

It is used chiefly in the manufacture of coarse sackcloth, cordage and hammocks, and is exported in large quantities.

Near Reitzburg the coarse conglomerates reach a thickness of 400 ft.

The principal industries are the manufacture of sackings, ropes, bricks, coarse earthenware, terra-cotta, tobacco-pipes and leather.

The ascent of water is most rapid through coarse sands, but the height to which it will rise is comparatively small.

The tail is short, broad and depressed, and covered with coarse hairs, which in old animals generally become worn off from the under (From Gould's Mammals of Australia.) Platypus.

The coarse and shaggy hair is somewhat like that of the sloths.

Chusan has but few manufactures; the chief are coarse cotton stuffs and agricultural implements.

Among these are sateen, which, dyed or printed, is largely used for dresses, linings, upholstery, &c.; linenette, dyed and finished to imitate coloured linen in the north of Ireland and elsewhere; hollandette, usually unbleached or half-bleached and finished to imitate linen holland; and interlining, a coarse, plain white calico used as padding for linen collars.

To our knowledge this is the largest cash prize in Scottish coarse angling.

Juvenile fish such as coarse fish fry small enough to pass through the screen will pass through the turbine with minimal effect on mortality.

The metamorphic rocks of the rest of Mainland are principally coarse gneisses, micaceous and chloritic schists, quartzites, &c.; in these rocks at Tingwall and Wiesdale considerable beds of limestone occur, which may be followed across the island in a northerly direction to Yell Sound, and to Dales Voe in Delting.

Yell is formed of coarse gneiss and granitic rocks.

That the coarse and imperious nature of the hardy and able ruffian who had now become openly her master should no less openly have shown itself even in the first moments of their inauspicious union is what any bystander of common insight must inevitably have foreseen.

Foxes, too, and badger are dyed a brownish black, and white hairs inserted to imitate silver fox, but the white hairs are too coarse and the colour too dense to mislead any one who knows the real article.