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Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.

Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed. -- E*rose"ly, adv.

A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

To notch; to indent; to jag.

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

gry; incensed; enraged. [Recent] The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. Thackeray. Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. Dickens.

See Jager.

u, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos. [Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jaganatha, etc.]

Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.

One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.

A tropic bird. (b) A jager, or skua gull.

A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

nd the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy. -- Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil.

In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar. Panther cat (Zoöl.), the ocelot. -- Panther cowry (Zoöl.), a spotted East Indian cowry (Cypræa pantherina); -- so called from its color.

An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.

t from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zoöl.) See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.

Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.

Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.