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Lag   /læg/   Listen
noun
Lag  n.  
1.
One who lags; that which comes in last. (Obs.) "The lag of all the flock."
2.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. "The common lag of people."
3.
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
4.
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially: (Mach.), 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.
5.
(Zool.) See Graylag.
6.
The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.
Lag of the tide, 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 priming 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.
Lag screw, 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.


Lag  n.  One transported for a crime. (Slang, Eng.)


verb
Lag  v. t.  
1.
To cause to lag; to slacken. (Obs.) "To lag his flight."
2.
(Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.


Lag  v. t.  To transport for crime. (Slang, Eng.) "She lags us if we poach."


Lag  v. i.  (past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)  To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind."
Synonyms: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.


adjective
Lag  adj.  
1.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. (Obs.) "Came too lag to see him buried."
2.
Last; long-delayed; obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life."
3.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. (Obs.) "Lag souls."





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"Lag" Quotes from Famous Books



... skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... renouncing cleane The faith they haue in Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell; And vnderstand againe like honest men, Or pack to their old Playfellowes; there, I take it, They may Cum Priuilegio, wee away The lag end of their lewdnesse, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... the buggy when the girl finished. The elder woman bade the young people good night, and turned and went into the yard and stood a moment looking at the stars before going into her lonely house. The lovers let the tired horses lag up the hill, and as they turned into Lincoln Avenue the girl was saying: "A year's so long, Bob,—so long. And you'll be away, and I'm afraid." He tried to reassure her; but she protested: "You are ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... save on one memorable occasion when a band of mischievous pages had set upon him, carried him to the scaffold and nailed his enormous ears to the beam. Now, reassured, burning with delight, the jester spurred presumptuously forward, no longer feeling bound to lag in ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... as a Christian, if no more is meant by being born again than this, the speaker must have had the strongest taste in metaphors of any teacher in verse or prose on record, Jacob Behmen himself not excepted. The very Alchemists lag behind. Pity, however, that our Barrister has not shown us how this plain and obvious business of Baptism agrees with ver. 8. of the same chapter: 'The wind bloweth where it listeth', &c. Now if this does not express a visitation of the mind by a somewhat not in the own ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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