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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHAGREE'N, n. A kind of grained leather prepared of the skin of a fish, a species of Squalus. To prepare it, the skin is stretched and covered with mustard seed, which is bruised upon it. The skin is then exposed to the weather for some days, and afterwards tanned.
SHAGRE'EN, a. Made of the lether called shagreen.
SHAGREEN, for chagrin. [See Chagrin.]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: by folk etymology from French chagrin, modification of Turkish sa?r? Date: 1677 1. an untanned leather covered with small round granulations and usually dyed green 2. the rough skin of various sharks and rays when covered with small close-set tubercles • shagreen adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a kind of untanned leather with a rough granulated surface. 2 a sharkskin rough with natural papillae, used for rasping and polishing. Etymology: var. of CHAGRIN in the sense 'rough skin'

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shagreen Sha*green", Shagreened Sha*greened"a. 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. ``A shagreen case of lancets.'' --T. Hook. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shagreen Sha*green", v. t. To chagrin. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shagreen Sha*green", n. [F. chagrin, It. zigrino, fr. Turk. saghri the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Cf. Chagrin.] 1. 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. 2. 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.