husky

adj 1: muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall

burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a

strapping boy of eighteen"; (`buirdly' is a Scottish

term; "a buirdly lad of twelve") [syn: {beefy}, {burly},

{strapping}, {buirdly}]

2: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or

emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking";

"hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful

but husky:- Virgil Thomson [syn: {gruff}, {hoarse}]

n : breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog [syn: {Eskimo dog}]