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(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lag'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lag.html. 1828.
 
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