An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

C. B. rhugl-aw, to rub, to chafe; at-terere, Davies; rhygl-o, to rub, to fret; Lhuyd: also, to groove, striare.

RAGMAN, RAGMENT, s.
1. A long piece of writing.
Wyntown.
2. A rhapsody.
Douglas.
3. An account, in order to a settlement.
Dunbar.

Ital. ragionamento, a discourse.

RAGMAN'S ROW, or ROLL, a collection of those deeds by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland were constrained to subscribe allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. 1296.
Rudd.

Isl. raeg-a, to accuse, raege, an accuser; hence the devil is called Rageman, P. Ploughm.

RAGWEED, s. Ragwort, S.
Burns.

To RAY, v. a. To array.
Wallace.

Ray, s. Military arrangement.
Id.

RAY, s. Uncertain.
Douglas.

Su. G. ra, Isl. raege, daemon.