Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

256. Roughness — N. roughness &c adj.; tooth, grain, texture, ripple;

asperity, rugosity†, salebrosity†, corrugation, nodosity†; arborescence† &c 242; pilosity†. brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher†; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. plumage, plumosity†; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee. wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus†, moss, bur; fluff. knot (convolution) 248. V. be rough &c adj.; go against the grain. render-rough &c adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple. Adj. rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose†, rugous†; knurly†; asperous†, crisp, salebrous†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth†, roughhewn†; craggy, cragged; crankling†, scraggy; prickly &c (sharp) 253; arborescent &c 242 [Obs.]; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous†; laciniate†, laciniform†, laciniose†; pappose†; pileous†, pilose†; trichogenous†, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose†, crinite†; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous†, bearded, pilous†, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed†; setous†, setose†, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate†, lanated†; lanuginous†, lanuginose†; tomentose†; fluffy. Adv. against the grain. Phr. cabello luengo y corto el seso [Sp.].