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Shag [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hairy; shaggy.

Shag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair.

2. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay .

3. A kind of cloth having a long coarse nap.

4. In orinthology , an aquatic fowl, the Pelecanus graculus ; in the north of England called the crave .

Shag [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make rough or hairy.

2. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow .

3. To make rough or shaggy; to deform.

Shag [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hairy; shaggy.

Shag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.

2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

3. A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

4. Any species of cormorant.

Shag [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Shag-haired [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having shaggy hair.

Shag-rag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The unkempt and ragged part of the community.

Shagbark [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

2. The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

Shagebush [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sackbut.

Shagged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shaggy; rough.

Shagged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Shag

Shagginess [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SHAG'GINESS , The state of being shaggt; roughness with long losse hair or wool.

Shagginess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Shagging [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Shag

Shaggy [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SHAG'GY ,

2. Rough with long hair or wool.

3. About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. Dryden .

4. Rough; rugged; as the shaggy tops of hills.

5. And throw the shaggy spoils about your shoulders. Addison .

Shaggy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Rough with long hair or wool.

2. Rough; rugged; jaggy.

Shagreen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Made of the lether called shagreen

2. SHAGREEN , for chagrin . [See Chagrin .]

Shagreen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of grained leather prepared of the skin of a fish, a species of Squalus. To prepare it, the skin is stretched and covered with mustard seed, which is bruised upon it. The skin is then exposed to the weather for some days, and afterwards tanned.

Shagreen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Shagreened

Shagreen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

Shagreen [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To chagrin.

Shagreen Encyclopedia Britannica

SHAGREEN. See Leather, vol. xiv. p. 390, and Shark.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 734
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Shagreened [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.

2. Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.