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

Full of crags, or steep, broken Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.

The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

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

Quality or state of being scragged.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

An ensign or flag. [Obs.] More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient. Shak.

eless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly. [Obs.] Spenser.

A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

es of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

long the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along…

To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.

The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

[Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). -- Water gillyflower, the water vio…

Lugged or dragged by the head. [R.] "The head-lugged bear." Shak.

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation. Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. Shelley. Garments thus beset with long jags. Holland.

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. Shak.