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Rag

Rag (rag)
v. t.	(rg)
Rag
[Cf. Icel. rægja to calumniate, OHG. ruogen to accuse, G. rügen to censure, AS. wr*emacr]gan, Goth. wrhjan to accuse.]

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

[Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

Rag

Rag (rag)
n.
Rag

A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.

Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed.
And fluttered into rags. Milton.

Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.

Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Dryden.

A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

The other zealous rag is the compositor. B. Jonson.

Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag. Spenser.

A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

A ragged edge.

A sail, or any piece of canvas.

[Nautical Slang]

Our ship was a clipper with every rag set. Lowell.

Rag bolt, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place. -- Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow strips of cloth sewed together, end to end. -- Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers. -- Rag wheel. (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel. (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel. -- Rag wool, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits; shoddy.

Rag

Rag (rag)
v. i.	(rg)
Rag
[imp. ** p. p.* Ragged (r&abreve]gd); p. pr. ** vb. n.* Ragging (-g&ibreve]ng).]

To become tattered.

[Obs.]

Rag

Rag (rag)
v. t.
Rag

To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Rag

Rag (rag)
v. t.
Rag

To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.

[Colloq.]

To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.

[Colloq. or Slang]

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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