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Ragged adj.

Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. (R.) "A ragged noise of mirth."

Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

Rough; shaggy; rugged. "What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?"

Ragged lady (Bot.), the fennel flower (Nigella Damascena).

Ragged robin (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lychnis (Lychnis Flos-cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.

Ragged sailor (Bot.), prince's feather (Polygonum orientale).

Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. (Eng.)

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"Ragged" Quotes from Famous Books

... to happen to them. But the miles fled under their swift feet. The trim villas near the township gave place to scattered farms. These in their turn became further and further apart, and then they entered a wide belt of timber, ragged and wind-swept gums, with dense undergrowth of dogwood and bracken fern. The metalled road gave place to a hard, earthern track, on which the spinning tyres made no sound; it curved in and out among the trees, which met overhead and cast upon it a waving ...

— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... Ink-coloured rain clouds hanging close over the hills, their fringe-like lower edges showing ragged across a pale sky, against which the hills themselves rise dark and sharp. Now and again a shower of rain falls, but not energetically; the wind blows, the clouds shift, the rain ceases, and the sky darkens or gleams ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... perfectly justified his faith. As the palaces rose from the ground, making a magnificent walled city, they looked solid and they looked old and they had distinct character. Moreover, through having the color in the texture, they would not show broken and ragged surfaces. ...

— The City of Domes • John D. Barry

... must suffice to suggest the nature of her activities in connection with this and kindred philanthropies: "It is now just ten, and I have come up from the City Hall, in whose dismal St. Giles precincts I have been to see a colored ragged school.... My Sundays are not days of rest.... My whole soul is sickened; and to-day when I went to church filled with people in their fine summer clothes, and heard a magnificent sermon from Dr. Dewey, and thought of the streets ...

— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach

... fall on her to capture her and hurry her along with them perforce of the allayed, once fatal, inflammable element in herself, shook the warmth from her limbs: causing her to say to herself aloud in a ragged hoarseness, very strangely: Every thought of mine now has a physical ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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