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Shag

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

3. A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

4. Any species of cormorant.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Hairy; shaggy. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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