Rag \Rag\, v. t.

1. (Music) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. [Colloq.]

2. To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. [Colloq. or Slang]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rag \Rag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ragging.]

To become tattered. [Obs.]

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Rag \Rag\, 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.

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Rag \Rag\, n. [OE. ragge, probably of Scand, origin; cf. Icel. r["o]gg 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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rag \Rag\, v. t.

1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)