The quality or condition of being hoarse.

Roughness; (also) hoarseness (of the voice). Chiefly with of.

hoarseness.

Hoarseness, huskiness.

Scottish and English regional (northern). With the. Hoarseness, huskiness. Also: an instance of this; a rasping sound. In early use also: †a disease…

Hoarseness; harshness or roughness of sound, esp. of the voice.

Hoarseness or weakness (of the voice). Obsolete. rare.

Harshness, roughness.

With reference to animals: the state or condition of having loose pendulous flesh around the throat. Cf. throaty, adj. 2.

figurative. Applied in contempt to speech or utterance likened to this. Chiefly U.S., sometimes in allusion to Whitman's use.

The quality of being ‘cracky’; craziness.