shagginess (shagines)

shaggy (shag'i), a. [= Sw. skäggig, shaggy; as shag + -y1.] 1. Rough, coarse, or unkempt; thick, rough, and irregular. IMG:content-0778.png:[blocks in formation] Their masks were accommodated with long shaggy His dark, square countenance, with its almost shaggy depth of eyebrows, was naturally impre ive. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, viii. 2. Rough; covered with long coarse or bushy hair, or with something resembling it. Liberally the shaggy Earth adorn With Woods, and Buds of fruits, of flowers and corn. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. The sapling tree Which then was planted stands a shaggy trunk, Mo -grown, the centre of a mighty shade. Bryant , Fifty Years. 3. In bot . , pubescent or downy with long and soft hairs; villous.-4. In embryol., villous: noting specifically that part of the chorion which develops long villous proce es, and thus enters into the formation of the placenta, the rest of the chorion remaining smooth. shag-haired (shag' hard), a . Having rough, shaggy hair. Full often, like a shag - hair'd crafty kern, Hath he conversed with the enemy. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 367. shagling (shag'ling), a . [Appar. a var. of shack ling.] Shackling; rickety; tottering; infirm. Edmund Crispyne of Oriell coll., lately a shagling lecturer of physic, now one of the Proctors of the University. A. Wood , Fasti Oxon., i. 72. Same as shake - rag . Scott, Cadyow Castle. shagragt (shag'rag), n. shake = shagreen (sha-grēn'), n. and a. [Formerly also Chagr chagrin = D. segrijn G. schagrin = Sw. scha gräng = chaari Dan. chagrin = Ru . shagrinŭ, saghri, shagreen, lit. 'the back of a horse' (this leather being orig. made of the skin of the back of the horse, wild a , or mule). Hence ult., in a fig. sense, chagrin 2, q. v.] v.] n. 1. A of leather with a granular surface, prepared without tanning from the skin of the horse, a , and camel, and sometimes the shark, sea-otter, and A bible bound in shagreen, with gilt leaves and clasps, never opened but once. Steele, Tatler, No. 245. 2. Specifically, the skin of a shark or some related selachian, which is roughened with calcified papillæ (placoid scales), making the surface harsh and rasping. See cut under scalel, and compare sephen. The integument [of sharks, etc.] may be naked, and it never po e es scales like those of ordinary fishes; but very commonly it is developed into papillæ, which become calcified, and give rise to tooth-like structures; these, when they are very small and close-set, constitute what is called shagreen . Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 111. 3. An imitation of genuine shagreen, made by pa ing raw hide in a moist state through rollers in contact with a roughened copper plate.41. Chagrin. See chagrin2 . II. a . Made of the leather called shagreen. Two Table-Books in Shagreen Covers, Fill'd with good Verse from real Lovers. Prior, Cupid and Ganymede. Shagreen ray, a batoid fish, Raia fullonica, about 30 inches long and a foot or more broad, covered with shagreen, common off the British coasts. - Shagreen skate. Same as shagreen ray.