n. [ Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n. ] 1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rawboned person. [ Low ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Scrag. ] To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. [ Colloq. ]

An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lean and rough; scraggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being scragged. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a scraggy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Scragger superl. Scraggiest. ] 1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. “A scraggy rock.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lean and rough; scragged. “His sinewy, scraggy neck.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Scraggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a scraggy neck. [ 1913 Webster ]