Middle English Dictionary Entry
rag(ge n.
Entry Info
| Forms | rag(ge n. Also rage, ragghe. |
| Etymology | ON: cp. OI rögg (older *raggw-) & ODan. rag. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A scrap of cloth, rag; (b) a strip of cloth, bandage; a streamer on a banner or pennon; (c) a flap or lappet of a garment; (d) sg.& pl. tattered or ragged clothing; also fig.; (e) ?a shred of putrid matter in an ulcerated wound; (f) renten (riven) to ragges, to tear (sb.) to pieces, cut.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Talking LGod (Vrn)42/7 : Ihesu..Þer weore þou wounden and swaþeled in Ragges.
- c1400(1399) Þer is a busch (Bagot)p.364 : A bereward fond a rag; Of the rag he made a bag.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Jer.38.11 : He took fro thennus elde clothis and elde ragges.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)13/30 : Fortune..on summe..voucheþ saf vnneþes a fewe ragges.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)29a/a : Fraccillus: a rag or a draggynge of cloþes.
- c1440 HBk.GDei (Thrn:Horstmann)318 : Þan feles he noghte elles bot taters & ragges.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)584/23 : Fractillus: a rag, or a dag.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)101b : A Ragge [Monson: Rage]: fractillus.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)6571 : A thredbare tabard full of raggis..He on his armore caste.
b
- c1400 *Bk.Mother (Bod 416)128/15 : He hadde leye foure daies ded..his fet ybounde wiþ ragges.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1973 : Pryd, put out þi penon of raggys and of rowte.
c
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)421 : Ragge: Cincinnus..lacinia.
d
- a1350 Ich herdemen (Hrl 2253)36 : Þus we beþ honted from hale to hurne; þat er werede robes, nou wereþ ragges.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)107/249 : Prede syȝt vnder ragge Wel cobel.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1723 : As he hire couthe best adresce, In ragges, as sche was totore.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4752-4 : Love..is a slowe, may not forbere Ragges, ribaned with gold, to were; For also wel wol love be set Under ragges, as riche rochet.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.226 : Cristene men shulden þenke shame to cloþe hem above wiþ raggis, and foule þe worþi suyt of Crist.
e
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)104a/a : Ȝif it be a canker..þer gone oute þerof as þer were foule ragges & rotennesse.
f
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)271/36 : All to ragges schall ye rente hym and ryue hym.
2.
?Some style of irregular or uneven handwriting; ~ honde.
Associated quotations
- (1412) *Will Scarclyff Surrey (Lambeth)[OD col.] : Salterium meum glosatum voc. flos salterij, script. de Rag littera.
- (?1423-4) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)106/9 : Thomas Corbet..prayde me to write on þerafter of Raghand.
- (1426) *Will Malton (Somerset Ho.)[OD col.] : Portiforium de Ragge de scripcione.
- (1436) Doc.Merchant York in Sur.Soc.12945 : An endenture wretyn of grete ragge unseled.
3.
Hard, rough stone; a piece of such stone; also, a kind of grey-colored limestone from Kent; ~ ston, ston ~; gret ~.
Associated quotations
- (1278) Burs.R.Merton in Archaeol.J.2142 : Item, v d. liberat. eidem pro ij magnis lapidibus qui vocantur ragghes.
- (1313) in Salzman Building in Engl.128 : [A barge-load of] grey stone called ragg.
- (1333) *Acc.de Weston (PRO)Bundle 469, no.15, m.2 : Michi de Creyston pro i batell' petr. de Eyllesford vocat' Ragston empt' pro dicto fundament', viii s.
- (1350) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.262 : [Two boatloads of] ragston, [value 23 s.].
- (1365) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.4.562 : [400 cartloads of stone..150 shall be of great stone called] gretragge.
- (1375-6) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5129 : Item, eidem pro scapulacione ccix pedum de rages, xvij s. v d.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.168/864 : Item, paied for Cariage of ragston, x d.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)152/15 : Þai smeken it and stewen it with a smeke rered vp fro vynegre þrowen vppon a marcasite or..a ragge stone made hote.
- (1432) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)222 : John Wellisz..doyt pur iij lodysz de gros stone Rag pur pauement par John Mertyn et Richard Bottler daprest, ix s.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.318 : First thy grount assay, If hit be ragge or roche, & [read: on] hit thow foote In depth a foote or too.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.139 : Ragston [L Tofus] & thinges hard, in cold and hete Relaxed, bereth vyneyerdes grete.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1400 : md Tonnetight of Ragges of Kent, hethston and Flynts, price of tonnetight with the cariage ij s. iiij d.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)99b : Loke þou haue also plente of hard rag stones & rounde pebul stones of rever.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)109a : Hit is nedefulle þat þer be euermore in þe karnelles of þe walles grete stones of pebelus and othre hard Rag.
- (a1472) Acc.Bodmin in Camd.n.s.1430 : Item, for grete Raggis for the Porch, xiij s. x d. ob.
- (1485-86) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32156 : Resseyvid for ij tonne of Rag stone which lay in the chirch yard, summa ij s.
4.
In surnames.
Associated quotations
- (1222) Close R.Tower 1522 : Galfridus Rag de Bamburg.
- (1230) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.4196 : Willelmus Ragge.
- (1275) Close R.Edw.I160 : William Ragges.
- (1327) Sub.R.Stf.in WSAS 7246 : Willelmus Rag.
- (1376) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702)121 : Ricardi Ragge.
- (1379) Nickname in LuSE 55149 : Will. Raghed.