Word Meanings - BRISTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

• Roughcast
  To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
• Roughleg
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
• Thickening
  of Thicken
• BRISTLESHAPED
  Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
• Roughcaster
  One who roughcasts.
• Rough-legged
  Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
• Hairsplitter
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
• Roughdraw
  To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
• ROUGHFOOTED
  Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. [R.] Sherwood.
• Hairsplitting
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
• Roughdry
  in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
• Roughness
  The quality or state of being rough.
• Thickhead
  A thick-headed or stupid person.
• ROUGHGRAINED
  Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
• Hairspring
  The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
• Roughened
  of Roughen

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