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   Lag (?), a. [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]
   1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.]
   
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   Came too lag to see him buried. Shak.
   
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   2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. “The lag end of my life.”  Shak.
   
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   3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] “Lag souls.”  Dryden.
   
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   Lag (?), n.
   1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] “The lag of all the flock.”  Pope.
   
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   2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
   
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   The common lag of people. Shak.
   
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   3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
   
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   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.
   
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   5. (Zool.) See Graylag.
   
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   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”.
   
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   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.
   
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   Lag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging (?).] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. “I shall not lag behind.”  Milton.
   
   Syn. -- To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
   
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   Lag, v. t.
   1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] “To lag his flight.”  Heywood.
   
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   2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
   
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   Lag, n. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
   
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   Lag, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
   
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   She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.
   
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