Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. t. [Cf. Icel. r[ae]gja to calumniate, OHG. ruogen to accuse, G. r["u]gen to censure, AS. wr[=e]gan, Goth. wr[=o]hjan to accuse.] To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge.
Rag \Rag\, n. [OE. ragge, probably of Scand, origin; cf. Icel. r["o]gg a tuft, shagginess, Sw. ragg rough hair. Cf. {Rug}, n.] 1. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. --Milton.
Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. --Fuller.
2. pl. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. --Dryden.
3. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
The other zealous rag is the compositor. --B. Jonson.
Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag. --Spenser.
4. (Geol.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
5. (Metal Working) A ragged edge.
6. A sail, or any piece of canvas. [Nautical Slang]
Our ship was a clipper with every rag set. --Lowell.
{Rag bolt}, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place.
{Rag carpet}, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow strips of cloth sewed together, end to end.
{Rag dust}, fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-mach['e] and wall papers.
{Rag wheel}. (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel. (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel.
{Rag wool}, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits, shoddy.
Rag \Rag\, v. t. 1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
Rag \Rag\, v. t. 1. (Music) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. [Colloq. or Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ragged} (r[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ragging} (r[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] To become tattered. [Obs.]
It was the older Knievel who made the jump famous and turned himself into a household name in the process when he crashed on landing and flipped like a rag doll through the parking lot and broke nearly ever bone in his body.
The rag trade is a point of entry to the labor market for thousands of Southern California immigrants.
"That was just a crumpled rag when we first saw it," she said. "But Nadine Gasc (a curator of the fashion museum) figured out how the original looked." The costumes ranged from tweed suits to satin ball gowns.
He told about seeing Campbell throw a screaming Lattie into a bathtub of hot water, scrubbing the boy with a rag until his skin started peeling off.
Clean filter openings with a rag or brush, remove debris and replace any worn parts.
The roaming rag vendors supply jeepney drivers with inexpensive multipurpose rags.
It ain't nothing but a piece of rag.
Also jockeying for space are Geoff's mentally defective pal Firpo (Stephen Papps), who wants to be an Olympic runner, and the real Olympic runners who interrupt their beach training to rag Firpo something rotten. Nothing and everything happens.
As for bonds, an encouraging headline figure for August M3 growth disguised an acceleration in bank lending, a red rag to the Bundesbank bull.
In recent years, the high end of the rag trade has come very much to resemble the old Hollywood studio system, in which moguls controlled the destiny and creative output of contract players.
If it fails, GEC's wholly-owned activities could be reduced to a motley rag bag of defence and industrial companies.
A board of inquiry concluded in April that the first-stage engine's water supply line was blocked by a rag.
"It's like squeezing dirty water out of a wash rag.
"Revolutionary rag," sneers a shopowner in the white part of town.
If they find the ashes of a gas-soaked rag, suspected petroleum residue in charred flooring, or some other indication of arson at a fire scene, investigators take samples to the laboratory for scrutiny by a battery of equipment.
But there were other varieties of shark patrolling the muddier waters of the rag trade world, producing 'rip-offs' in their millions.
One party reportedly drove across in a truck with a bleached rag tied to its antenna.
To accomplish this, Operation Rescue protesters are taught to resist passively, by going limp like a rag doll or flexing their muscles rigidly.
The nation's new immigration law, which was signed last November, has made it illegal to hire the undocumented immigrants who have been the lifeblood of the rag trade here for generations.
For years, librarians have anguished over the fact that for a century, after paper makers switched to wood pulp from rags, book paper has been highly acidic and disintegrates in about 50 years, compared with hundreds of years for rag paper.
How the rich stitch up the world's rag trade.
A big shot of jazz, a little rag, a little blues, a lot of Polish.