| Rag |
v. t. |
To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. |
| Rag |
v. t. |
To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. |
| Rag |
v. t. |
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. |
| Rag |
n. |
A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. |
| Rag |
n. |
Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress. |
| Rag |
n. |
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. |
| Rag |
n. |
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture. |
| Rag |
n. |
A ragged edge. |
| Rag |
n. |
A sail, or any piece of canvas. |
| Rag |
v. i. |
To become tattered. |
| Rag |
v. t. |
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. |
| Rag |
v. t. |
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone. |
| Ragabash |
n. |
Alt. of Ragabrash |
| Ragabrash |
n. |
An idle, ragged person. |
| Ragamuffin |
n. |
A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch. |
| Ragamuffin |
n. |
A person who wears ragged clothing. |
| Ragamuffin |
n. |
The long-tailed titmouse. |
| Rage |
n. |
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. |
| Rage |
n. |
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. |
| Rage |
n. |
A violent or raging wind. |
| Rage |
n. |
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. |
| Rage |
n. |
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. |
| Rage |
n. |
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. |
| Rage |
n. |
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. |
| Rage |
n. |
To toy or act wantonly; to sport. |
| Rage |
v. t. |
To enrage. |
| Raged |
imp. & p. p. |
of Rage |
| Rageful |
a. |
Full of rage; expressing rage. |
| Ragery |
n. |
Wantonness. |
| Ragged |
imp. & p. p. |
of Rag |
| Ragged |
n. |
Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. |
| Ragged |
n. |
Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. |
| Ragged |
n. |
Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. |
| Ragged |
n. |
Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. |
| Ragged |
n. |
Rough; shaggy; rugged. |
| Raggie |
a. |
Alt. of Raggy |
| Ragging |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Rag |
| Ragguled |
a. |
Notched in regular diagonal breaks;
said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. |
| Raggy |
a. |
Ragged; rough. |
| Raghuvansa |
n. |
A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty. |
| Raging |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Rage |
| Raging |
|
a. & n. from Rage, v. i. |
| Ragious |
a. |
Raging; furious; rageful. |
| Raglan |
n. |
A loose overcoat with large sleeves;
named from Lord Raglan, an English general. |
| Ragman |
n. |
A man who collects, or deals in, rags. |
| Ragman |
n. |
A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull. |
| Ragman's roll |
|
The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. |
| Ragmen |
pl. |
of Ragman |
| Ragnarok |
n. |
Alt. of Ragnarok |
| Ragnarok |
n. |
The so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German Gotterdammerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Aesir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage). |
| Ragout |
n. |
A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton. |
| Ragpicker |
n. |
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets. |
| Ragtime |
n. |
Time characterized by syncopation, as in many negro melodies. |
| Raguled |
a. |
Alt. of Ragguled |
| Ragweed |
n. |
A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. |
| Ragwork |
n. |
A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones. |
| Ragwort |
n. |
A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio. |
