Lag(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Lag(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Lag(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lag(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lag(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lag(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
Lag(n.) 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.
Lag(n.) See Graylag.
Lag(n.) One transported for a crime.
Lag(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
Lag(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lag(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Lag(v. t.) To transport for crime.
Lagged(imp. & p. p.) of Lag
Lagging(n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
Lagging(n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
Lagging(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lag
Laggingly(adv.) In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
Lagly(adv.) Laggingly.
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