Middle English Dictionary Entry

ragged(e adj.
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Note: Cp. rugged adj. & raggi adj.
1.
(a) Of clothing, garments: tattered, ragged; also fig.; (b) of persons, bodily parts: wearing tattered clothes, covered with rags; (c) of persons, bodily parts: torn, lacerated.
2.
(a) Of animals, their tails, the devil, fiends: shaggy; as noun: the devil; also in proverb; (b) of trees, plants, etc.: scraggly, shaggy, ?rambling.
3.
(a) Of rocks, stones: jagged, rough, coarse; of places: rugged in terrain; also fig.; (b) of jewels: ?rough, uncut; (c) of nails: blunt; (d) of an animal's teeth, back, etc.: jagged, notched; (e) of a plant, its root, stock: rough, spiky, thorny; of a staff: covered with stubs; also fig.; (f) of leaves: lobed, serrated, dentate; (g) as noun: the rough part of something, roughness; (h) of thoughts: unpolished.
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