RAUCID ADJ. hoarse, raucous, harsh-sounding ...1730 literary usage ETYMOLOGY from Latin raucus (hoarse, harsh, raucous) from ravis (hoarseness) + -id FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1730 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...In Needy Thraldom, fearful, darkling lay, Expected fond were the sweet-warbled Ode Of vig'rous Stretch; when not th' Elegiac Tone Which on Maander's Stream the raucid Swan, At Fate's Approach, was storied erst t' emit, The pining, heartless, wasted Pris'ner groans..." From: Freedom; A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the Rapacious Claws of Bailiffs, and Devouring Fangs of Goalers...To which is annexed The Author's Case - Andrew Brice
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