Rag

·noun A ragged edge.

II. Rag ·vi To become tattered.

III. Rag ·noun A sail, or any piece of canvas.

IV. Rag ·vt To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

V. Rag ·noun A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

VI. Rag ·vt To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

VII. Rag ·noun Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.

VIII. Rag ·noun A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

IX. Rag ·add. ·vt To play or compose (a piece, melody, ·etc.) in syncopated time.

X. Rag ·noun A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.

XI. Rag ·add. ·vt To dance to ragtime music, ·esp. in some manner considered indecorous.

XII. Rag ·vt To scold or rail at; to Rate; to Tease; to Torment; to Banter.