Rag

rag, n. a fragment of cloth: a rock having a rough irregular surface: a remnant, scrap: a beggarly person: anything rent or worn out.— adj. made of rags.— v.t. to make ragged.— v.i. to become ragged, to fray: ( U.S. slang ) to dre ( out ).— ns. Rag′abash , a low fellow; Rag′a muffin , a low, disreputable person.— adj. Rag′amuffinly .— ns. Rag′-bush , in some heathen countries, a bush dedicated to some deity and decorated with rags torn from the clothes of pilgrims; Rag′-dust , the refuse of rags used by dyers; Rag′-fair , a fair or market for rags, old clothes, .; Rag′gery , rags collectively; Rag′ging , the first rough separation of the ore from dro ; Rag′-man , a man who collects or deals in rags; Rag′-mon′ey ( slang ), paper money; Rag′-pick′er , one who collects rags, ., from ash-heaps, dung-hills, .: a machine for tearing old rags, ., to pieces; Rag′-shop , a shop where rag-pickers dispose of their finds; Rag′-sort′er , one who sorts out rags for paper-making; Rag′-stone , Ragg , an impure limestone, consisting chiefly of lime and silica; Rag′-tag , the rabble; Rag′weed , any plant of the composite genus Ambrosia ; Rag′wheel , a wheel with teeth or cogs on the rim, which fit into the links of a chain or into rackwork: a cutla polishing-wheel; Rag′-wool , shoddy; Rag′work , mason-work built of small stones about the size of bricks: a manufacture from strips of rag.— Rag-tag and bobtail , a rabble. [Ice. rögg , shaggine .]