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Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.

A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

The practice of eating flesh.

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

Having shaggy hair. Shak.

The unkempt and ragged part of the community. [Colloq. or Slang.] R. Browning.

A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

A sackbut. [Obs.]

Shaggy; rough. Milton. -- Shag"ged*ness, n. Dr. H. More.

The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Rough with long hair or wool. About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. Dryden.

To chagrin. [Obs.]

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.

Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.

Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.

A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra- oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]

See Supra-esophagal.

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.