SHAG
\ʃˈaɡ], \ʃˈaɡ], \ʃ_ˈa_ɡ]\
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shag, n. woolly hair: cloth with a rough nap: a kind of tobacco cut into shreds.--adj. rough, hairy.--v.t. to roughen, make shaggy.--v.i. (Spens.) to hang in shaggy clusters.--adjs. SHAG'-EARED (Shak.), having shaggy or rough ears; SHAG'GED, shaggy, rough.--n. SHAG'GEDNESS.--adv. SHAG'GILY.--n. SHAG'GINESS.--adjs. SHAG'GY, covered with rough hair or wool: rough: rugged; SHAG'-HAIRED, having long, rough hair. [A.S. sceacga, a head of hair; Ice. skegg, beard, skagi, cape (in Shetland, skaw).]
By Thomas Davidson
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Rough growth or mass of hair &c., whence shagged a. (rare); (archaic) long-napped rough cloth; coarse kind of cut tobacco. [old English]
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Crested cormorant.
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Henry Percy Smith
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