n. Rough matted hair, wool, or the like.n. Hence The nap of cloth, especially when long and coarse.n. Any cloth having a long nap.n. A strong tobacco cut into fine shreds.Rough and coarse; hairy; shaggy.Made of the cloth called shag.To roughen or make shaggy: used chiefly in the past participle.To hang in or form shaggy clusters.n. In ornithology, a cormorant; especially, the crested cormorant, or scart, Phalacrocorax graculus, of Europe, so called in Great Britain.