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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase <i>lag end</i>.</def> "The <i>lag end</i> of my life."

<i>Shak.</i>

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<p><b>3.</b> <def>Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Lag</i> souls."

<i>Dryden.</i>

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<hw>Lag</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who lags; that which comes in last.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "The <i>lag</i> of all the flock."

<i>Pope.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.</def>

<blockquote>The common <b>lag</b> of people. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Graylag</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Lag of the tide</col>, <cd>the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to <i>priming<i> of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon.</cd> -- <col>Lag screw</col>, <cd>an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Lag</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lagged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lagging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.</def> "I shall not <i>lag</i> behind."

<i>Milton.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.</syn>

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<hw>Lag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to lag; to slacken.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "To <i>lag</i> his flight."

<i>Heywood.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See <er>Lag</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 4.</def>

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<hw>Lag</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One transported for a crime.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

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<hw>Lag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To transport for crime.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>She <b>lags</b> us if we poach. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

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