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Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. |
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Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. |
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Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. |
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One who lags; that which comes in last. |
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The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. |
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The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
steam engine, in opening or closing. |
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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. |
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See Graylag. |
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To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger
or loiter. |
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To cause to lag; to slacken. |
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To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See
Lag, n., 4. |
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One transported for a crime. |
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To transport for crime. |