Defn: To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
Do you notice that this stencil has been shellacked so the edges won't roughen when I scrub?
The slip makes it stick to the roughening, so you have to roughen the top of every coil and moisten it with slip.
The morning came bright and cheerful, with not enough wind to roughen the quiet surface of the little haven.
Celia: To roughen my hands with soap and scalding water till they're near as knotted and as ugly as your own!
Celia: I wouldn't wish toroughen my hands before evening.
Trim your nails with a file, not a knife; and clean them with a dull cleaner, for a sharp-pointed one will scrape the nail and roughen it, or push the nail away from the skin of the finger underneath.
All the streams of the western plateaus have deep valleys, and the manifest result of their action is to roughen the surface; but given time enough, and the streams will have cut their beds to low gradients.
To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
Here I have been puzzling and puzzling with this problem, and it never occurred to me to roughen those tacks!
The ends of lines which go over the edge are afterwards to be removed with the penknife, but not till you have done the whole work, otherwise you roughen the paper, and the next line that goes over the edge makes a blot.
Roughen the edges on the tang of a file with a cold chisel, and drive the tang into the hole with a mallet.
This instrument is better than a knife or the regular scratcher, because the cutting edge will shave the surface of the paper or tracing cloth and not roughen or cut it.
Nor is it well to scour them with a brush or a soap coarse enough to roughen their surfaces.
Many people think that the water for this purpose must be hot, but I have found that hot water tends to roughen and crack the glaze of toilet china, and to incline the articles used for waste water to give off an odour.
The alkalies, in combining with sand, commence their action on the surfaces of the particles, and roughen them--rust them as it were.
If we roughen a corn stalk with sand-paper we may sharpen a knife upon it.
Accordingly, when the quarrel was at its highest I broke in upon it, protesting that the oversight was of no consequence, and that I was quite prepared to roughen it with them in the best of good fellowship.
I was willing to roughen it in all good-fellowship with these worthy Americans, but I knew that to those who had remarked my careful taste in dress my present appearance would seem almost a little singular.
Roughen one surface, spread these two rough surfaces with a good liquid glue and place them together.
While this is being done, slightly roughen the back of your bow with a file.
Plane it straight and roughen its two-inch surface with a file.
The female katydids have a long sword-shaped ovipositor with which they roughen the bark on twigs, and place the eggs there, fastening them with a gummy substance.
With this long, sharp ovipositor the grasshopper can roughen the bark of twigs or make holes in the stems of plants or in the earth.
