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Lag
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
(2):
(n.) One transported for a crime.
(3):
(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
(4):
(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
(8):
(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
(9):
(a.) Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
(10):
(v. t.) To transport for crime.
(11):
(n.) See Graylag.
(12):
(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
(13):
(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
(14):
(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lag'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/lag.html. 1828.
