deg (plural degs)

1. (math) Abbreviation of degree#English|degree.

deg (degs, present participle degging; past and past participle degged)

1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle#Verb|sprinkle, moisten.
   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462 ↗, stanza 3, page 53 ↗:

     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.

deg (plural degs)

1. (galaxy) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy

• dE

• ElG
• gE
• dI, DIG
• dSph

deg (plural degs)

1. (galaxy) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy

• dE

• dIG, dI
• dSph