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Webster 1913 Edition

(skrăg)

Noun.

[Cf. dial. Sw.

skraka

a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael.

sgreagach

dry, shriveled, rocky. See

, and cf.

Noun.

]

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a

scrag

of mutton on silver.

Thackeray.

A rawboned person.

[Low]

Halliwell.

A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Scrag whale

(Zool.)

a North Atlantic whalebone whale (

Agaphelus gibbosus

). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

Noun.

[This word is formed from the root of rag, crag, Gr. rack.]

Something thin or lean with roughness. A raw boned person is called a scrag, but the word is vulgar.