Ragged

a.	1.	Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
	2.	Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
	3.	Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
	4.	Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
	5.	Rough; shaggy; rugged. What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? - Dryden. 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.

Adj.	1.	ragged - being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp"
	2.	ragged - worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged"
	3.	ragged - having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"

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