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[ME. * ragman, rageman, ragge man, prob. Filius by the faders wil flegh with Spiritus Sanctus, To ransake that rageman and reue hym hus apples, That fyrst man deceyuede thorgh frut and false by heste. Piers Plowman (C), xix. 122. ragman3+ (rag'man), n. [ME. ragman, ragmon, rageman, ragemon, ragment, a deed sealed, a papal bull, a list, a tedious story, a game so called: an abbr. of ragman - roll, q. v.] 1. Same as ragman - roll, 1. He ble ed hem with his breuet, and blered hure eyen, And raghte with hus ragman rynges and broches. Piers Plowman (C), i. 72. Rede on this ragmon , and rewle yow theraftur. MS . Cantab . Ff. v. 48, f. 7. (Hall i well.) The records in connexion with the financial operations of Richard II. and Richard III. make it clear that a rag man or rageman -I believe the word is spelled both ways -meant simply a bond or personal obligation. The Academy, Jan. 18, 1890, p. 47. IMG:content-1575.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] (in the supposed invidious sense 'the Cravens' Roll'), to name was applied specifically, and perhaps, originally the collection of those instruments by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland were tyrannically constrained to subscribe allegiance to Edward I. of England in 1296, and which were more particularly recorded in four large rolls of parchment, consisting of thirty-five pieces bound together, and kept in the Tower of London. ( Jamie son. ) What one man emong many thous an des. hath so moc he vacaunte tyme, that he maie bee at leasure to tourne ouer and ouer in the bookes of Plato the rag mannes rolles.. whiche So crates doeth there vse? Erasmus , Pref. to Apophthegms, tr. by Udall. The list of names in Fame's book is called ragman roll in Skelton, i. 420. Hall i well . 2. A game played with a roll of parchment containing verses descriptive of character, to each of which was attached a string with a pendant. The parchment being rolled up, each player selected one of the projecting strings, and the verse to which it led was taken as his description. 3. A written fabrication; a vague or rambling story; a rigmarole. Mayster parson, I marvayll ye wyll gyve lycenc To this false knave in this audience To publish his ragman rolles with lyes. The Pardoner and the Frere (1533). ( Hall i well .) ragman's rewet. Same as ragman - roll, 2. These songes or rimes (because their origin all beginnyng i ued out of Fescenium) wer called in Latine Fescennina Carmina or Fescennini rythmi or versus; whiche I doe here translate (according to our English prouerbe) a rag man's rewe of a bible. For so door we call along jeste that railleth on any persone by name, or toucheth a bodie's honestee somewhat nere. Udall's Erasmus's Apophth ., p. 274. ragman's rollt (rag'manz rōl), n . See ragman roll . Ragnarök (rag'nä-rėk'), n. [ ragineis, counselor); rökr, twilight, dimne , vapor (see reek1 ); but orig. ragna rök, the history of the gods and the world, esp. with ref. to the last judgment, doomsday: rök, reason, judgment.] In Scand. myth., the general destruction of the gods in a great battle with the evil powers, in which the latter and the earth also perish, followed by regeneration of all things through the power of the supreme God, and the reappearance of those gods who represent the regenerative forces of nature. ragoa (ra-gō'ä), n. Same as goa, 1.