Word Meanings - ROUGHWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish. Moxon.

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• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• FINISHING
  The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• REGARDING
  Concerning; respecting.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• REGARDFUL
  Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
• REGARDABLE
  Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable. Sir T. Browne.
• REGARDANT
  Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant. (more info) 1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.
• FINISHED
  Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work , work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.
• REGARDER
  An officer appointed to supervise the forest. Cowell. (more info) 1. One who regards.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• HIGH-FINISHED
  Finished with great care; polished.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
• DISREGARDER
  One who disregards.
• UNFINISHED
  Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
• MISREGARD
  Wrong understanding; misconstruction. Spenser.