deg /dɛɡ/verb 1noun 2forms 3 verb1 •(dialect, Northern-England) To sprinkle, moisten.Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn. — 1881 noun2 •Abbreviation of degree. •Clipping of degradation. formsdegged · degging · degs
deg. noun1 •Abbreviation of degree or degrees.From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable […] — 1825