See Also: roughhew(medicine)

maomao (iou) and roughhew (medicine)


maomao (iou)



maomao noun. NZ. L19.
[Maori.]
An edible blue marine fish, Scorpis aequipinnis (family Kyphosidae), of New Zealand and Australian waters. Also blue maomao.

roughhew (medicine)


roughhew


1. To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

2. To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape appromaxitely and rudely; to roughcast. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will." (Shak)

Source: Websters Dictionary