SHAG

n. a. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

2.
n.

A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

3.
n.

A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

4.
n.

Any species of cormorant.

5.
a.

Hairy; shaggy. Shak.

6.
v.

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.

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