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A person who wears ragged clothing. [Colloq.]

assion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

Full of rage; expressing rage. [Obs.] "Rageful eyes." Sir P. Sidney.

Wantonness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.

a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- Ra"*ging*ly, adv.

Raging; furious; rageful. [Obs.] -- Ra"gious*ness, n. [Obs.]

A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.

A man who collects, or deals in, rags.

ility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. [Also written ragman-roll.]

The so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.

Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies. [Colloq.]

Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

rican composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. Great ragweed, a coarse American herb (Ambrosia trifida), with rough three-lobed opposite leaves.

A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.