Part 4136

<blockquote>Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to <b>fag</b>. <i>G. Mackenzie.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.</def>

<blockquote>Read, <b>fag</b>, and subdue this chapter. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.</def>

<cs><col>To fag out</col>, <cd>to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fag</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To tire by labor; to exhaust; <as>as, he was almost <ex>fagged</ex> out</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything that fatigues.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>It is such a <b>fag</b>, I came back tired to death. <i>Miss Austen.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Brain fag</col>. <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Cerebropathy</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fagend</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fag"*end"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The refuse or meaner part of anything.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>fag-end</b> of business. <i>Collier.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fagging</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fag"ging</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.</def>

<h1>Fagot</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fag"ot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., prob. aug. of L. <ets>fax</ets>, <ets>facis</ets>, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ bundle, fagot. Cf. <er>Fagotto</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A bassoon. See <er>Fagotto</er>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>Addison.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An old shriveled woman.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

<cs><col>Fagot iron</col>, <cd>iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots.</cd> -- <col>Fagot vote</col>, <cd>the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. <mark>[Political cant, Eng.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Fagot</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fag"ot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fagoted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fagoting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>