Churl"ish, a. 1.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld.
Burleigh.
Half mankind maintain a churlish
strife.
Cowper.
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable;
unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the
churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Boyle.