A Malay-English dictionary,

RAGUT [ 3I6 ] RAGI

R. lu: a coarsely-plaited basket used for
storing padi.
R. sudu.: a rough creel for spooning padi
into a tub or on to a mat.
Balong r.: a full crested comb. Also balong
sr1aga.
Buwah raga, or buwah sepak raga: a roughly
plaited ball of basket-work used for playing
a game something like football. Sepak raga:
the game so played; Ht. Ism. Yat., 173; Ht.
Raj. Bud., 58. Bermain raga: to play at
this game; Sh. Sing. Terb., 14. Bersepak
raga: id., Sh. Kumb. Chumb., 14.
II Jav. The body-in contradistinction
to the soul (sokma). Tbrtawan-lah badanjiwa
raga: my body is enslaved, my very life and
body; Sh. Panj. Sg.
III. Display; showing off. Meraga: to
show off (fine clothes or curios); to invite
admiration. Phraga: a dandy, a man who
is always aiming at display.
ragut. Miragut: to tear out with violence.
Miragut-ragut rambut: to tear one's hair-of
a man under the influence of great excitement or grief; Ht. Sri Rama (Maxw.), 46;
Ht. Sh.; Ht. Abus., 15. Cf. rabut, chabut
and ragas.
ragas. The act of seizing and pulling but
not actually tearing out; cf. ragut and rabut.
Kena ragas kayu: to rub past the point of a
stick.
Meragas: to clutch and pull; to seize and
pull; to pull things about-as is done by a
revenue officer searching for contraband
goods; to seize the rung of a ladder and pull
oneself up to it. M. rambut: to pull a
woman's hair so as to spoil the dressing but
not so violently as to tear the hair out of the
scalp. Ada yang di-ragas rambut marika:
some had their hair pulled about; Sh. Panj.
Sg.
ragus. Greed, gluttony. Maka dengan ragusnya kuching itu tiyada tahu mnznahan loba:
the cat's greed was such that he could not
control his desires; Ht. Kal. Dam., I85.
Also rakus.
ragang. The act of scaling a wall or climbing a tree; climbing by stretching out
one's arms and pulling oneself up, as opposed
to climbing by walking up a declivity. Tangga hendak neragang kota: scaling ladders;
Ht. Mar. Mahaw.
ragong. Thragong-ragong: knocking one
against another, of heavy bodies suspended

by narrow stalks or necks; swaying one
against another, as mangosteens on a string.
ragup. Catching; carrying off; snatching
away. Tangkal kanak-kanak jangan di-ragup
uleh shaitdn: an amulet to prevent children
becoming the prey of evil spirits; Muj., 84.

ragam. Hind. Modes in music; modulation; melody; variety of sound; (by metaphor) variety of colouring, nature, or temperature.
Bunyi r.: an air; a melody; a tune. R.
manusiya: an earthly, as distinct from a
celestial, melody. Bunga lawang tiga ragam:
three varieties of cloves; Muj., 87.
Berbanyak ragam: many-sided in character
or temperament, either in a bad sense
(capricious) or in a good sense (possessed of
varied accomplishments). Banyak orang
banyak ragam-nya: there are as many natures
as there are men; no two men have absolutely
the same disposition; Prov., J. S. A. S., XI.,
77.
Me-ragam: to sound; to give out a varying
sound-as a voice broken with sobbing, Ht.
Sh. Kub.; or as the song of a bird, Sh. A. R.
S. J., 4; or even as a creaking rudder, Sh.
Sri Ben., 22.
Paspa-ragant: of varied colouring or sound;
varied; Ht. Gul. Bak., 40.

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ragum. A kind of vice or clip worked with a
screw; an instrument in use among coppersmiths. Tandok r.: (Kedah) horns meeting at
their extremities, horns which curve so as to
meet each other.

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ragu. Confusion; uncertainty; variation;
"chopping and changing"; the character of
a man who is everything in turn and nothing
long.
ragah. Beragah-ragah: "daring" each other
to advance; defying or exciting each other to
fight-as two enemies working up their temper
before beginning the attack. Cf. rakah.
ragi. Any essence or material inserted into a
preparation with a view to improving it-as
yeast is put into dough or alloy into metal;
yeast; leaven; alloy; any compound to produce fermentation.
Tepong kena ragi: dough meets yeasta proverbial expression signifying that things
are taking the most promising turn; Sh. Lail.
Mejn., 14. Rosak tapai kena ragi: the cake
may be spoilt by the yeast; Prov., J. S. A. S.,
XI., 53.
Ragi is also used (when speaking of the
manufacture of cloth) to describe the colours
arranged on a web to serve as a model or
basis for the pattern. Baragi: with a
coloured pattern. Buta ragi: with the
pattern washed out.
Di-tenun kai dangan kapas,
Brmnacham-macham warena ragi;
Perahu lilin layar karats,
Barani ku langgar lautan api:
cloth is woven out of cotton, varied are the
colours of its pattern.
Meragi: to work colours into a fabric.
Burong mSragi: the painter or painted snipe.

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