WORD OF THE DAY: RAUCID

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