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peak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]

A screed; a shred; a fragment. [R.]

A small shred; a bit cut off. Wiseman.

A small part or piece. To be cut into snippets and shreds. F. Harrison.

A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.

To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.