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Webster 1913 Edition


Lag

Lag

,
Adj.
[Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir.
lag
weak, feeble, faint, W.
llag
,
llac
, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E.
lax
,
languid
.]
1.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
[Obs.]
Came too
lag
to see him buried.
Shakespeare
2.
Last; long-delayed; – obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
“The lag end of my life.”
Shak.
3.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
[Obs.]
Lag souls.”
Dryden.

Lag

,
Noun.
1.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
[Obs.]
“The lag of all the flock.”
Pope.
2.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
The common
lag
of people.
Shakespeare
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
.
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.
Syn. – To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.

Lag

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to lag; to slacken.
[Obs.]
“To lag his flight.”
Heywood.
2.
(Mach.)
To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See
Lag
,
Noun.
, 4.

Lag

,
Noun.
One transported for a crime.
[Slang, Eng.]

Lag

,
Verb.
T.
To transport for crime.
[Slang, Eng.]
She
lags
us if we poach.
De Quincey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lag

LAG

,
Adj.
[This word belongs to the root of slack, slow, sluggish, languish, long; Gr. See the Verb.]
1.
Coming after or behind; slow; sluggish; tardy.
2.
Last; long delayed; as the lag end.
[This adjective is not now in use.]

LAG

,
Noun.
1.
The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
2.
He that comes behind. [Not in use.]

LAG

,
Verb.
I.
[Eng. to flag, and flacceo, langueo, to languish, &c. The sense is to extend or draw out, or to become lax or loose.]
To walk or move slowly; to loiter; to stay behind.
I shall not lag behind.

Definition 2024


làg

làg

See also: lag, Lag, LAG, lág, låg, and -lag

San Agustín Mixtepec Zapotec

Noun

làg

  1. leaf

References

  • Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona, Introducing San Agustín Mixtepec Zapotec