*shag*

n. [ AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skj&unr_;g. Cf. Schock of hair. ] 1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Any species of cormorant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hairy; shaggy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shagged p. pr. & vb. n. Shagging. ] To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Bot.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. (b) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sackbut. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaggy; rough. Milton. -- Shag"ged*ness, n. Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Shaggier superl. Shaggiest. ] [ From Shag, n. ] Rough with long hair or wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ A rill ] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having shaggy hair. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The unkempt and ragged part of the community. [ Colloq. or Slang. ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To chagrin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chagrin, It. zigrino, fr. Turk. saghri the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Cf. Chagrin. ] 1. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. [ 1913 Webster ]