GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Tag , n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]
   Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
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   A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
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   The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
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   Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
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   Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
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   A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.]
   Halliwell.
   
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   Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging .]
   To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
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   He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
   Macaulay.
   
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   His courteous host . . . 
   Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
   Dryden.
   
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   To join; to fasten; to attach.
   Bolingbroke.
   
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   To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
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   Tag, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
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   Tag, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
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