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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.

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing…

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

See Shagreen.

Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

Corivalry. [R.] By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert.

The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.