Rag

[ræg] or [ræɡ]

Definition

(noun.) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students).

(noun.) a small piece of cloth or paper.

(noun.) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities.

(verb.) break into lumps before sorting; 'rag ore'.

(verb.) play in ragtime; 'rag that old tune'.

Typist: Murray--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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

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

(n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

(n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

(n.) A ragged edge.

(n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.

(v. i.) To become tattered.

(v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

(v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Checker: Michelle

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Shred, tatter.

Inputed by Huntington

Definition

v.t. to banter torment.—Also n.

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 dress (out).—ns. Rag′abash a low fellow; Rag′amuffin 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 &c.; Rag′gery rags collectively; Rag′ging the first rough separation of the ore from dross; Rag′-man a man who collects or deals in rags; Rag′-mon′ey (slang) paper money; Rag′-pick′er one who collects rags &c. from ash-heaps dung-hills &c.: a machine for tearing old rags &c. 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 cutlass 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.

Checked by Aubrey