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English Dictionary: rough-cast by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Roughcast \Rough`cast"\, v. t.
      1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision,
            correction, or polish. --Dryden.
  
      2. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with
            asperities and inequalities.
  
      3. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles;
            as, to roughcast a building.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Roughcast \Rough"cast`\, n.
      1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
  
      2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of
            shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. --Shak.
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