Rag

rag, n. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered frag that falls at any given place in a given time. —wa'- ment; shred; bit; patch, pi. Mean or tattered atter, n. Water that has fallen from the clouds in tire. (Geol.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat celrain. lular in texture. [Sw. ragg, rough hair; raggig, Raise, raz, v. [raised (razd), raising.] To cause 6haggy: Ga. and Ir. rag, a rag, prob. E.; not to rise to bring from a lower to a higher place to Gr. rhakos. a shred of cloth.] — Rag'ged, a. Rent or bring to a higher condition or situation, elevate in worn into tatters; broken with rough edges unrank, dignity, etc. to increase the strength or veheeven; rough with sharp or irregular points jagged; mence of; to recall from death, give life to; to cause wearing tattered clothes; dre ed in rags. — Rag'- to rise up, or a ume an erect position or posture; to gedne . n— Rag'man, n. One who collects or deals cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from in rage. — Rag's tone, n. A dark gray silicious sand a state of quiet, etc.; to awaken; to rouse to action, sun, cube, full moon, foot cow, oil linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get.. 486 RAISIN 468 stir up; to cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to build up, erect; to bring together, collect; to cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to bring into being, produce; to give vent or utterance to; to cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. aut.) To cause to seem elevated, as an object by a gradual approach to (Law.) To create or constitute. [ME. reisen, Ic. reis a, to raise, make to rise, visa, to rise same as rear rise, q. v.] — To raise a blockade. (Mil.) To remove or break up a blockade. — To a purchase. (Naut.) To dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required. — Tor. a siege. To relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. — Rais'er, n. One who, or that which, raises. — Rais'ing, n. Act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life; operation of setting up the frame of a building, or any structure of timber.