tomtit (medicine) and rag(1) (iou)

tomtit (medicine)

tomtit
<zoology> A titmouse, especially. The blue titmouse.

The wren.

Origin: Tom (see Tomboy) + tit the bird.

Source: Websters Dictionary

rag noun1. [rag] ME.
[Prob. back-form. from RAGGED or RAGGY adjective1.]
A torn, frayed, or worn piece of woven material; in pl., tattered or worn clothes. ME.
N. Streatfeild Nobody..was going to curl their hair in rags every night. Sian Evans A dirty white rag tied round his throat in lieu of a collar. J. McPhee His clothes have become rags.
b. A very small scrap of cloth or article of clothing. Usu. in neg. contexts. L16.
c. A garment of any kind. Usu. in pl. colloq. (orig. US). M19.
E. Langley Every rag we possessed.
An irregularly shaped piece of anything; a fragment, a scrap, (lit. & fig.). LME.
Shelley Rags of loose flesh. V. Scannell In the..hedges pale rags of mist hung. S. Middleton His private life was in rags.
b. spec. (A small amount of) money. arch. slang. L16.
a. A low-class or disreputable person. See also BOBTAIL noun 3b. Cf. RAGTAG noun, TAGRAG noun 1. M16.
b. A newspaper, esp. one regarded as inferior or worthless. colloq. M18.
A. Wilson Not John's ghastly rag, of course, but the more reputable papers. B. Trapido The front page of the local rag.
c. A handkerchief. colloq. M18.
d. A flag. slang. M18.
e. A banknote. Usu. in pl. arch. slang. M19.
f. The curtain in a theatre. slang. M19.
g. A sanitary towel. Chiefly in be on the rag, have the rags on, be menstruating. slang (chiefly N. Amer.). M20.
A sharp or jagged projection. Chiefly Scot. M17.
= RAGWORM. L19.
Phrases: be on the rag: see sense 3g above. chew the rag: see CHEW verb. get one's rag out slang = lose one's rag below. glad rags: see GLAD adjective. have the rags on: see sense 3g above. in rags (a) much torn; (b) in old torn clothes. lose one's rag slang become angry, lose one's temper. rags to riches poverty to wealth. tag and rag: see TAG noun1 11. take the rag off the bush, take the rag off the hedge, take the rag off (chiefly US) surpass everything or everyone.
Comb.: rag-and-bone-man an itinerant dealer in old clothes, furniture, etc.; rag-bag (a) a bag in which scraps of cloth are collected or stored; (b) a miscellaneous collection; (c) slang a sloppily dressed woman; rag-bolt noun & verb (a) noun a bolt with barbs to keep it tight when it has been driven in; (b) verb trans. fasten by means of a rag bolt; rag book a children's book made of untearable cloth; rag-chewing protracted discussion or argument; rag content the proportion of rag in paper; rag doll a stuffed doll made of cloth; rag frame Mining an inclined table for partially concentrating slimes; rag-head N. Amer. slang, (racially offensive) a person who wears a turban or cloth around the head; rag-lamp US History a lamp with a rag as a wick; rag-merchant a dealer in rags; rag-out slang a sudden short unofficial strike by coalminers; rag paper: made from rags; rag picker a collector and seller of rags; rag-roll verb trans. create a marbled or mottled effect on (a surface) by painting it using a crumpled rag (chiefly as rag-rolling verbal noun); rag rug: made from small strips of fabric hooked into or pushed through a base material such as hessian; rag-shop, N. Amer. rag-store a shop dealing in rags and old clothes; ragtop US slang a convertible car with a soft hood; rag trade colloq. the business of designing, making, and selling clothes; rag-wheel a sprocket-wheel with projections catching in the links of a chain passing over it.
raggie noun (a) Military slang a mess jacket; (b) Nautical slang a close friend: M19.

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