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Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.

The state of being craggy.

moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as…

or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way. The surge impelled me on a craggy coast. Pope.

eps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. Oft have I scaled the craggy oak. Spenser.

Having a scraggy neck.

Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

in a scraggy manner.

The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.

See Scraggy.

cies of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.…

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. Whitter.

Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.]