LekhoriLekhoriA sharp projection.
garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
A part broken off; a fragment.
some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
A Jaguar car.
"One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam and rag. The verb is from jaggen, from Old...
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