SHAGREEN

Definition: SHAGREEN

SHAGREEN

Adjective

1. Alt. of Shagreened

Noun

1. The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.

2. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

Transitive verb

1. To chagrin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SHAGREEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

"SHAGREEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: careen, chagrin, shagged, shaken, share, shared, sharer, sharpen.

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Covering

Integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis.

Crosswords: SHAGREEN

Albanian

lëkurë e ashpër. (various references)

Arabic 

‏جلد خشن, ‏الشغرين جلد غير مدبوغ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шагренова кожа, шагрен. (various references)

Danish

shagreen, chagrinere, chagrin. (various references)

Dutch

sagrijnleder, korrelen (cubing, granulate, granulation, pelleting, pelletizing, seeding). (various references)

Finnish

käkirausku (Fuller's ray, shagreen ray). (various references)

French

chagrin. (various references)

German

chagrin. (various references)

Greek 

σπειρωτό δέρμα, σαγρέσ, δέρμα σαγρέ. (various references)

Hungarian

szamárbõr. (various references)

Italian

zigrino (Darkie Charlie, kitefin shark). (various references)

Manx

troggal grineenyn er, lhiare grineenagh, crackan sharkagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

agreenshay.(various references)

Portuguese

tecido chagrém, couro (alligator, fell, leather, pelt, peltry, rind, skin), chagrinar, chagrim, chagrem, chagrém. (various references)

Romanian

şagrin. (various references)

Russian 

шагрень (sharkskin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šagrin. (various references)

Spanish

zapa (sap, sharkskin), tejido chagran, chagrinar, chagrín. (various references)

Swedish

chagrin, chagräng. (various references)

Thai

หุ้มหรือทำจากหนังลายจุ�". (various references)

Turkish

sahtiyan (morocco leather, Russia, russia leather, saffian, skiver), sağrı derisi, keler derisi, köpekbalığı derisi. (various references)

Ukrainian

шагрень (chagrin), акуляча шкіра. (various references)

Vietnamese 

da sargin. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SHAGREEN": shagreens. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: enrages, hangers, rehangs.

-2 letters: agenes, agrees, angers, eagers, eagres, enrage, gasher, genera, genres, gerahs, grease, greens, haeres, hanger, hearse, ragees, ranees, ranges, rehang, sanger, senega.

-3 letters: agene, agers, agree, anger, ashen, eager, eagre, earns, egers, erase, ernes, gears, genes, genre, gerah, ghees, gnars, gnash, grans, green, grees, hangs, hanse, hares, hears, heres, herns.

+1 letter: garnishee, rechanges, shagreens.

+2 letters: exchangers, garnisheed, garnishees, greenheads, greenshank, habergeons, rehearings, rehearsing.

+3 letters: carragheens, challengers, changeovers, featherings, gearchanges, generalship, greenhearts, greenshanks, hatemongers, hydrogenase, nearsighted, prehearings, researching, shivareeing, weatherings.

+4 letters: anglerfishes, chaperonages, cheeseparing, garishnesses, garnisheeing, generalships, grandnephews, hydrogenases, hydrogenates, interchanges, paperhangers, phrasemonger, rechallenges, renographies, scenographer, spearheading, stenographer, straightened, straightener, superheating, undercharges, venographies.

+5 letters: archegoniates, atherogeneses, atherogenesis, cheeseparings, clearinghouse, dehydrogenase, disheartening, ethnographers, ethnographies, graphicnesses, haggardnesses, housebreaking, interchangers, magnetosphere, nearsightedly, photoengraves, phrasemongers, reemphasizing, scenographers, scenographies, sheepshearing, stenographers, stenographies, straighteners, theatergoings.