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.