#255.  Smoothness. —­ N. smoothness &c. adj.; polish, gloss; lubricity,
lubrication.
     [smooth materials] down, velvet, velure, silk, satin; velveteen,
velour, velours, velumen[obs3]; glass, ice.
     slide; bowling green &c. (level) 213; asphalt, wood pavement,
flagstone, flags.
     [objects used to smooth other objects] roller, steam roller, lawn
roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish.
     [art of cutting and polishing gemstones] lapidary.
     [person who polishes gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian. 
     V. smooth, smoothen[obs3]; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll;
macadamize; polish, burnish, calender[obs3], glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate &c. (oil) 332. 
     Adj. smooth; polished &c. v.; leiodermatous[obs3], slick,
velutinous[obs3]; even; level &c. 213; plane &c. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate[obs3], downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled[obs3]; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly &c. (feathery) 256. 
     Phr. smooth as silk; slippery as coonshit on a pump handle; slippery
as a greased pig.

     #256.  Roughness. —­ N. roughness &c. adj.; tooth, grain, texture,
ripple; asperity, rugosity[obs3], salebrosity|, corrugation, nodosity[obs3]; arborescence[obs3] &c. 242; pilosity[obs3].
     brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress,
lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher[obs3]; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.
     plumage, plumosity[obs3]; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft,
fringe, toupee.
     wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus[obs3], 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[obs3],
rugous[obs3]; knurly[obs3]; asperous[obs3], crisp, salebrous|, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth[obs3], roughhewn[obs3]; craggy, cragged; crankling[obs3], scraggy; prickly &c. (sharp) 253; arborescent &c. 242[obs3]; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous[obs3]; laciniate[obs3], laciniform[obs3], laciniose[obs3]; pappose[obs3]; pileous[obs3], pilose[obs3]; trichogenous[obs3], trichoid[Med]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose[obs3], crinite[obs3]; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous[obs3], bearded, pilous[obs3], shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed[obs3]; setous|, setose[obs3], setaceous; “like quills upon the fretful porcupine” [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
     downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate[obs3], lanated[obs3];
lanuginous[obs3], lanuginose[obs3]; tomentose[obs3]; fluffy. 
     Adv. against the grain. 
     Phr. cabello luengo y corto el seso[Sp].