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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCRAGGED, SCRAGGY

a.[supra. ] 1. Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; as a scraggy hill; a scragged back bone.
2. Lean with roughness.

 

SCRAGGEDNESS, SCRAGGINESS

n.Leanness, or leanness with roughness; ruggedness; roughness occasioned by broken irregular points.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCRAGGED

SCRAGGED Scrag "ged, a.

 

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

 

2. Lean and rough; scraggy.

 

SCRAGGEDNESS

SCRAGGEDNESS Scrag "ged *ness, n.

 

Defn: Quality or state of being scragged.