lagn.¹adj.

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Etymology: Belongs to lag v.²; the origin and mutual relation of the words are obscure. In some parts of England fog , seg , lag , or foggie , seggie , laggie , are used in children's games as substitutes for ‘first, second, last’ (see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Fog). This suggests the possibility that lag may have originated in the language of sports as an arbitrary distortion of last ; but even in that case the word may have coalesced with a homophone of independent origin. The current hypothesis that the adjective is < Welsh llag (earlier llac ), Irish and Gaelic lag , slack, weak, is highly improbable. There is some affinity of sense between lag and lack adj. (compare to come lag and to come lack ); the former might conceivably be an alteration of the latter under the influence of words like flag v.¹, fag n.² Compare further Middle Danish lakke to go slowly (Kalkar).

A. n.¹

1. The last or hindmost person (in a race, game, sequence of any kind). Now rare except in schoolboy use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last

lagc1530

lattermost1627

tail-ender1885

tail-end Charlie1941

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [noun] > the placing of one thing after another > the last one

latest1447

lagc1530

postreme1553

closer1961

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Biij ^v In the tauerne, remayne they last for lag.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvj Since eche man bragges, the lagge of vs A shendefull shame him take.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Dernier Le dernier le loup le mange,..lags come to the lash.

a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) vii. 112 The novissimus virorum, the lag and fag of all a very scum of men.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Mm4/3 Lag, a School-Word that signifies the last, le dernier. As, the Lag of a Form, le dernier d'une Classe.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 202 In Threats the foremost, but the lag in Fight.

1776 T. Jefferson Writings (1893–9) II. 39 The omission of H—— and B—— and my being next to the lag [in the nomination of delegates] give me some alarm.

1777 S. Johnson Let. 25 Oct. (1992) III. 87 How long do you stay at Brighthelmston? Now the Company is gone why should you be the lag?

1825 Sporting Mag. 16 310 Ward first mounted the stage and Cannon was no lag.

1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home iv. 38 I say, Julian, I vote we both try for lag next trials. It'd save lots of grind.

1890 A. Lang Life Sir S. Northcote I. i. 15 Stafford Northcote occupied the undistinguished place of ‘lag’ in his form.

†2. plural. What remains in a vessel after the liquor is drawn off; dregs, lees. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask

drastc1000

drosenc1000

drega1300

lagsa1525

bottom1563

snuff1592

tilta1603

tilting1611

heeltap1753

dunder1774

tops and bottoms1905

a1525 Regul. Houshold Earl of Northumb. (1770) 57 That Vinacre be made of the brokyn Wynes..And that the Laggs be provide by the Clerks of the Hous and markid after thei be past drawing that thei can be set no more of broche.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 65 Transmutations..of old lags of Sacks or Malmesies..into Muskadels.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. iv. 116 Laggs of Claret and Sack.

1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 199 Muskadel is sophisticated with the Laggs of Sack.

†3. Perhaps: the lowest class. (Cf. lag-end n. at Special uses.) Obsolete. rare.The meaning appears only as a result of later editorial emendation.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun]

laga1616

raff1673

Panchama Bandham1800

lower working class1824

proletariat1852

mudsill1858

netherworld1889

underworld1899

subproletariat1918

underclass1918

lumpenproletariat1924

Fifth Estate1966

Fourth World1976

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 80 The Senators of Athens, together with the common legge [Rowe (1709) and later editors lag (also tag)] of People. ]

4. [ < lag v.²]

a. The condition of lagging.

1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 114 When Spaniard meets Spaniard, then comes, not the tug, but the lag, of war.

b. in Physics: the retardation in a current or movement of any kind; the amount of this retardation; more widely in general use: a period of time separating any phenomenon or event from an earlier one to which it is related (causally or in some other way); = time lag n. at time n., int., and conj. Compounds 2. lag of the tide: the interval by which the tide-wave falls behind the mean time in the first and third quarters of the moon. angle of lag: see angle n.² Phrases 2. See also jet lag n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > speed or direction as vector quality > rate of increase of velocity > opposite of acceleration

retardationa1475

lag1855

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > time lag

latency1865

time lag1886

time delay1900

lag1902

lag time1956

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. (at cited word) The lag of the tide... The lag of the steam-valve of a steam-engine.

1881 Nature 24 Feb. 399/2 The remarkable lag which takes place in the occurrence of the critical barometric epochs at the more easterly stations.

1886 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 2) xviii. 330 ϕ is called the retardation or angle of lag.

1886 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 2) xviii. 331 The retardation will increase with increased speed... There will be less lag therefore if the machine is so designed that it can be driven at a slow speed.

1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 287/1 It is obvious that at the point where B cuts the axis the induction is a maximum; hence if there were no ‘magnetic lag’ and no currents in the iron, this point should occur at the same time as that at which the current is a maximum.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 42/1 [His] method consisted in measuring the interval which elapses between the application of a potential difference..and the passage of the spark. This lag of the spark, as we may call it, is a very important quantity.

1909 Jrnl. Hygiene 9 240 He found that there is an initial period after inoculation during which growth is almost absent: the length of time of this ‘lag’ varies with the age of the culture used for inoculation and with the species of the bacillus.

1923 Glasgow Herald 2 Nov. 12/4 The operation of the ‘lag’ of two months between the period of ascertainment and the months when the wages based on such ascertainment are paid.

1934 L. T. Agger Alternating Currents iii. 38 The current goes through all the events in its cycle one-quarter of a period, or 90°, later than the p.d. For this reason it is said to lag behind the p.d. by 90°; or, expressed in another way, the angle of lag of the current is 90°.

1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 66/1 Cultural lag, slowness in adapting institutions or cultural habits to new or changing conditions or situations; the condition which ensues when certain elements of culture change more slowly than other elements.

1940 Economist 7 Dec. 707/1 It must not be forgotten that a very considerable lag must occur between the dates when insured losses are incurred and compensation is paid. In the case of certain shipping losses,..this lag may extend for the duration of the war.

1962 Encycl. Dict. Physics VII. 190/1 Lag in a control system may be defined briefly as delayed response of the output to changes of input.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VII. 153/2 No instrument responds instantaneously to a change in the measurand; the lag is dependent on the natural frequency of the instrument system and its degree of damping.

B. adj.

a. †Last, hindmost (obsolete); belated, lingering behind, lagging, tardy (now rare). (In early instances only absol. or predicative, and hence hardly distinguishable from the noun.) †(to come) lag of: short of, too late for, or in arrear of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [verb (transitive)] > be late for or miss

(to come) lag of1552

lose1711

to miss of ——1777

miss1823

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed

remiss?1518

adjourned1538

delayed1548

long-delayed1548

lag1552

prorogued1552

dilated1556

lagging1597

retardate1598

fristeda1600

lagged1602

retarded1636

deferred1651

prorogatory1672

lated1676

postponed1819

protracted1838

suspended1848

put-off1871

hung up1878

held1906

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [adjective] > last in order

latemostOE

nextOE

aftermostOE

latestOE

lastc1175

outmost1447

terminalc1475

extreme1477

hindmost1526

final1530

lag1552

uttermosta1555

darrein1555

utter1558

lattermost1566

afterward1584

dernier1602

ultime1626

ultimate1728

postreme1814

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Lagge and last.

1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau v. v. sig. F.iv^v Haue not we well hunted, of blessing to come lagge?

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3^v Beshrow him that comes lagge in so good a course.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 91 Some tardy cripple..That came too lag to see him buried.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 6 I am some twelue or 14. mooneshines lag of a brother.

1624 Sir C. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 260 Your neighbour will struggle so long for place as he will be cast lagg.

a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 8 Beguile The Gowt and Rheume, that in lag howres attend For grey approachers.

1640 T. Carew Poems 36 There seated in those heavenly bowers, Wee'le cheat the lag, and lingring houres.

1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iii. 41 Then Hell has been among ye, And some lag Fiend yet lingers in the Grove.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 594 A fourth person, who comes lagg, as having lately appeared in print..tells us.. he died.

1743 R. Blair Grave 37 Ev'n the lag Flesh Rests.

1786 R. Burns Poems 56 An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame.

1839 D. Webster in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 100 Lauchie had looms, but was lag at the weaving.

b. as an exclamation at play (see quot. 1869).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > [interjection] > call to reserve last place or turn

lag1609

1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C 3 Boy. Now Iohn, i'le cry first. Ioh. And i'le cry lagge. I was in hoblies hole.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Lag or Lag last is said by boys when playing at pitch and toss, or other games, in order that they may bespeak the last pitch.

Compounds

† lag-bellied adj. Obsolete ? slow-paced, tardy.

1822 T. Hood Lycus 62 From the lag-bellied toad To the mammoth.

† lag-out n. Obsolete (= ‘last out’), the name of a boys' game.

1845 in Brasenose Ale 76 No marble in circles on the hall~step rolls, We cannot play lag-out, nor yet three-holes.

Special uses

lag-end n. the hinder or latter part, the fag end (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end

lag-end1598

back-enda1617

tailing1646

tail-end1747

rear end1785

tailpiece1786

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part

eveningOE

enda1200

eventide?c1225

finea1350

tail1377

latter (last) enda1382

issue1484

latter day?1498

waning1561

last days1572

heel1584

sunsetting1593

fall1596

lag-end1598

posterior1598

sunset1599

dotage1606

exit1615

stern1623

waning timea1639

last1683

heel piecea1764

shank1828

tail-end1845

tailpiece1869

tag1882

teatime1913

end-point1921

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 24 I could be well content, To entertaine the lag end of my life With quiet houres.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 17 In the lagge end of the same troope were driven a certaine number of faire and goodlie oxen.

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 204 A shelter..where they may..wear away the lag-end of their madness.

lag fault n. Geology a type of overthrust formed when the uppermost of a series of rocks moves more slowly than the lower ones.

ΚΠ

1900 J. E. Marr in Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 1899–1900 16 461 These fissures..would have an outcrop similar to those of thrust-planes or over-faults which approached the horizontal; but they would differ from these, inasmuch as no inversion on a large scale would accompany them. We shall speak of them here as ‘lag’ faults.

1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 212 Besides these great overthrusts there is another type of relative earth movement which is known as a ‘lag fault’.

1947 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 103 100 There are several lag-faults in the district, but..only in the case of the Tirbach lag-faults is the evidence considered to be conclusive.

1963 E. S. Hills Elem. Struct. Geol. vii. 191 Lag faults.—These are low angle faults with normal fault displacement, that originate from the upward movement of the footwall block in a region of general thrusting. The hanging-wall block appears to have lagged behind in the regional movements.

† lag-man n. Obsolete the last man, the one who brings up the rear.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The Essex calfe or lagman, who had lost the calues of his legs by gnawing on the horslegs.

lag phase n. Biology the period elapsing between the introduction of an inoculum of bacteria into a culture medium (or other new environment) and the commencement of its exponential growth.

ΚΠ

1914 Jrnl. Hygiene 14 260 A seeding taken during the lag-phase grows with diminished lag.

1944 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 4) i. 6 Multiplication [of bacteria] passes through four phases: (1) Lag phase—lasting from half an hour to eight hours, during which time there is no increase in numbers..; during this time the organism adjusts itself to its new environment.

1972 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 270 41 When E. coli cells are exposed to low temperatures, they enter a prolonged lag phase.

lag time n. the period of time elapsing between one event and a later, related, event, esp. between a cause and its effect; (the extent of) a lag.

ΘΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > time lag

latency1865

time lag1886

time delay1900

lag1902

lag time1956

1956 Nature 24 Mar. 579/1 Fragments of chorioallantoic membrane..support the growth of hæmagglutinating particles, but there is a lag-time of about ten hours.

1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 530 (table) Equipment lagtime before response.

1972 Times 26 June 12/4 The typical lag times for technological and cultural change.

1973 Nature 7 Dec. 327/1 The lag time of four years has been reduced to two at the behest of the governing council.

† lag-tooth n. Obsolete a wisdom tooth (from its late appearance).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > wisdom

cassall?1541

wit-tooth1601

lag-tooth1611

wisdom tooth1848

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Sophronisteri, the two teeth which grow last when a man is about twentie yeares ould, lag-teeth.

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lagn.²

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Forms: Also 1600s lagg.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse lǫgg.

Etymology: apparently < Old Norse lǫgg, recorded only in the sense ‘rim of a barrel’ (compare 1b); but the Swedish lagg means also ‘stave’, whence laggkärl vessel composed of staves, cask.

a. A stave of a barrel. Now dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels

stavea1398

staff1531

barrel stave1549

hogshead stavec1580

pipe stavec1580

lag1659

laggin1825

noggin-stave1855

staver1891

1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus lxxx. 165/1 The Cooper..maketh Hoops of Hassel-rods..and Lags of Timber.

1676 Burgery of Sheffield 209 For mendyng the church yatis and barrell laggs and nayles 4s. 4d.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale

†b. (See quot. 1688) Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 108/1 Lag, is a piece put into the top of a Barrel staff that is broken off at the Grooping.

2. One of the staves or laths forming the covering of a band-drum or a steam boiler or cylinder, or the upper casing of a carding machine.

ΚΠ

1847 Sykes & Ogden Specif. Patent 11,798 On these bands [in a carding engine] we fix a continued series of lags or small blocks of wood.

1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.

Compounds

lag-link n. a link for holding a lag or bar ( Cent. Dict.).

lag-machine n. a machine for shaping wooden lags (see sense 2).

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lag-machine.

lag-screw n. (a) a flat-headed screw used to secure lags to cylinders or drums; (b) U.S. = coach-screw vb. at coach n. and adv. Compounds 8.

ΚΠ

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 26 Almost any kind of shafting can be hung with safety on wood screws, or lag screws.

Draft additions 1997

lag bolt n. North American (a) a coach screw; (b) a coach bolt.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > other types of screw

wrench1552

needle screw1663

female screw1667

stop-screw1680

male screw1682

wood-screw1733

right and left handed screw1738

screw eye1787

claw-screw1795

screw shaft1818

union joint1819

union screw1820

right-and-left screw1821

binding-screw1828

coach screw1874

lag bolt1893

grub-screw1903

Allen screw1910

multithread1921

self-tapper1949

1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Lag-bolt.

1963 J. T. Rowland North to Adventure ix. 135 The longer lag bolts with which he had fastened it had got a strong grip in the wood.

1975 Sci. Amer. July 123/2 Lag bolts screwed into the plug and through the two-by-six boards of the well anchor the pier to the bed of the trailer.

1994 Canad. Workshop Sept. 62 Other options, good for heavy-duty applications, are a lag bolt with a shield..or a steel sleeve bolt.

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† lagn.³

Etymology: Of unknown origin; compare German lache cleft or mark in a tree. Compare lag v.⁵

Obsolete.

A cleft or rift in timber. Also in combinations, as lag-clift (unless lagge in quot. 1579 be the adjective).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > cleft or shake

lag1579

shake1651

heart shake1802

ring shake1868

gum-shake1887

1579 T. Hill Ord. Bees (1608) 24 The stocke thus cut asunder at both the ends, couer with a faire sheete, lest any lagge clifts appeare after the cutting.

1785 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 333 The ‘lag’..is a cleft, or rift, reaching sometimes from the top to the bottom of the stem, and, perhaps, to near its center.

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† lagn.⁴

Forms: Also 1500s lagge.

Etymology: Possibly < lage vb. at lage n. Derivatives to wash.

Cant. Obsolete.

lag of duds n. a ‘buck’ or ‘wash’ of clothes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed > quantity washed in one tub

lag of duds1567

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiii^v We wyll fylche some duddes of the Ruffemans or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes.

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3 If it be milling of a lag of duds.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lag-a dudds, a Buck of Cloths. As we cloy the Lag of Dudds, come let us Steal that Buck of Cloths.

1725 in New Canting Dict.

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lagn.⁵

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Etymology: < lag v.³

Cant.

1. A convict who has been transported or sentenced to penal servitude.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun]

prisona1225

prisonerc1384

enpresonéc1425

bird1580

warder1584

canary bird1593

penitentiala1633

convict1786

chum1819

lag1819

lagger1819

new chum1819

nut-brown1835

collegian1837

canary1840

Sydney duck1873

forty1879

zebra1882

con1893

yardbird1956

zek1968

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag, a convict under sentence of transportation.

1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London 39 A few are ‘returned lags’.

1887 Westm. Rev. June 383 It was no uncommon thing to see an old ‘lag’ enlarged for good conduct.

1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 232 As Wildrake was walking along the beach, he met a lag who had got his ticket-of-leave.

2. A term of transportation or penal servitude.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > transportation > term of

lag1821

1821 Life D. Haggart 84 Another prisoner..under sentence of lag for fourteen stretch.

1896 Daily News 13 May 9/5 I have had a look round with another man who did a lag with me.

Compounds

lag-fever n. (see quot.)

ΚΠ

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Lag-fever, a term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks.

lag-ship n. (see quot.)

ΚΠ

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag ship, a transport chartered by government for the conveyance of convicts to New South Wales; also a hulk or floating prison.

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† lagn.⁶

Obsolete. rare.

? A flock (of geese).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]

ferec975

flockOE

gingc1175

rout?c1225

companyc1300

fellowshipc1300

covinc1330

eschelec1330

tripc1330

fellowred1340

choira1382

head1381

glub1382

partya1387

peoplec1390

conventc1426

an abominable of monksa1450

body1453

carol1483

band1490

compernagea1500

consorce1512

congregationa1530

corporationa1535

corpse1534

chore1572

society1572

crew1578

string1579

consort1584

troop1584

tribe1609

squadron1617

bunch1622

core1622

lag1624

studa1625

brigadea1649

platoon1711

cohort1719

lot1725

corps1754

loo1764

squad1786

brotherhood1820

companionhood1825

troupe1825

crowd1840

companionship1842

group1845

that ilk1845

set-out1854

layout1869

confraternity1872

show1901

crush1904

we1927

familia1933

shower1936

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > group of

teamc1450

gaggle?1478

lag1624

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. Hee hath stopped the mouths of all Protestants for euer; the proudest of them dare not hiscere hereafter against Himselfe, or any one of his Lagg.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? 180 This Goose the Gagger may put his Gag into the Bils of many of his owne Gaggle, as well as into others Lagges.

1896 Eng. Dial. Dict. A-lag, Cum., the sporting term for a flock of geese.]

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† lagv.¹

Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare dag v.¹, clag v.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To daggle, render wet or muddy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with water or mud

laga1300

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by rubbing > mark, stain, etc.

laga1300

to take out1560

emaculatea1648

spot1915

a1300 [implied in: W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 173 Cy vent un garsoun esclaté, bilagged wit swirting. (at belag v.)].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 283 Laggyd, or bedrabelyd, labefactus, paludosus. Laggyn, or drablyn, palustro.

2. intransitive. To daggle, become wet or muddy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud

drabblea1400

lag1682

spoil1697

to look (feel) like something the cat has brought in1928

muddy1953

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 230 Let them [sc. your new garments] not lag with dust and dirt.

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lagv.²

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s lagg, 1500s–1700s lagge.

Etymology: See lag n.¹ and adj.

a. intransitive. To fail to maintain the desired speed of progress; to slacken one's pace, as from weakness or sloth; to fail to keep pace with others; to hang back, fall behind, remain in the rear. Often with behind adv. or const. after, behind prepositions; also with on.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > lag or fall behind

lag1530

to fall behind ——a1626

the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > decrease speed > slacken pace from weakness or exhaustion

lag1530

flag1639

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > fall behind

lag1530

to fall astern1599

drop1823

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow slowly

draga1513

draggle1577

drail1598

lag1651

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601/1 I lagge behynde my felowes, je trayne... Why lagge you ever behynde on this facion?

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiii^v/2 To Lag, fatigare. fatiscere.

1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. ii. sig. E^v To prison with the Villaine, Death shall not long lag after him.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlix. 118 The Admirall..began to lagge a sterne, and with him, other two shippes.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. iii. xxvi And lagg'd like Baggage Treasure in the Wars.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 266 I shall not lag behinde, nor erre The way, thou leading.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 589 He lags, and labours in his flight.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 137. ⁋4 His Master..wondered what made the lazy young Dog lag behind.

1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 24 Superfluous lags the Vet'ran on the Stage.

1800 W. Wordsworth Brothers 363 He, at length Through weariness,..lagged behind.

1801 M. Edgeworth Knapsack in Moral Tales II. 150 My poor fellows, how they lag.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 107 Suffering them [his mules] to lag on at a snail's pace.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 46 He grew silent and gloomy, and lagged behind the rest.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (1871) ii. iii. 260 When they had crossed three or four fields without a check, Arthur began to lag.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 492 If the sign is present, the upper eyelids lag, not closely following the movements of the eyeballs.

b. of immaterial things and figurative.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 34 Fortune in fauor makes him lagge behinde.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 13 And this our Gildas [the Fourth], who laggeth last in the Teame of his Name-sakes.

1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients vi. 40 We lagg in the care of Things of no kin to us.

1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 25 Ideas came into her Mind So fast, his Lessons lagg'd behind.

1764 S. Foote Lyar iii. ii. 64 Think how the tedious time has lagg'd along.

1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 12 When we speak of the commerce with our Colonies, fiction lags after truth.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 94 The vocal parts generally lagging a little behind the instrumental.

1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics vi. 84 Business lagged in every department of the administration.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. ii. 514 Military preparation does lag at a shameful rate.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 332 The work lagged for five years in the hands of the bishops.

1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 287/2 The maximum induction lags behind the maximum magnetising force.

2. transitive. To cause to lag; to retard, to tire. Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > reduce (speed) > cause to reduce speed

check1393

slow1557

lag1570

slack1577

slacken1580

slug1605

trasha1616

overslow1619

beslowa1644

steady1812

to slow up1868

decelerate1899

1570 [see sense 1a].

1632 T. Heywood Iron Age v. sig. K3 The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye.

1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes Paraphr. cli. 298 Thine Armours load, but laggs faint heart, for flight the more unfit.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Lagg'd, tired as with carrying a load.

†3. transitive. To drag after one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind

drawOE

harry1340

traila1380

traina1500

lag1530

strakec1530

entrain1568

drail1598

lurry1664

toboggan1886

schlep1911

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601/1 He laggeth the dogge at his horse tayle: il trayne le chien a la queue de son cheual.

4. transitive. To lag behind.

ΚΠ

1930 M. G. Malti Electr. Circuit Anal. iii. 26 A curve lags the origin if its zero value..occurs after the point x = 0.

1966 L. A. Manning Electr. Circuits iv. 56 The current function lags the voltage by 90 degrees; that is, the current rises to a maximum value a quarter of a cycle later than does the voltage.

1973 Nature 21 Dec. 444/1 After the time step, Atomic Time will lag ut by 0·7 s.

Derivatives

† lagged adj. Obsolete delayed, tardy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed

remiss?1518

adjourned1538

delayed1548

long-delayed1548

lag1552

prorogued1552

dilated1556

lagging1597

retardate1598

fristeda1600

lagged1602

retarded1636

deferred1651

prorogatory1672

lated1676

postponed1819

protracted1838

suspended1848

put-off1871

hung up1878

held1906

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 O, I could eate Thy fumbling throat, for thy lagd censure.

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lagv.³

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

†1. transitive. To carry off, steal. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]

pick?c1300

takec1300

fetch1377

bribec1405

usurpc1412

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

embezzle1495

lifta1529

pilfer1532

suffurate1542

convey?1545

mill1567

prig1567

strike1567

lag1573

shave1585

knave1601

twitch1607

cly1610

asport1621

pinch1632

snapa1639

nap1665

panyar1681

to carry off1684

to pick up1687

thievea1695

to gipsy away1696

bone1699

make1699

win1699

magg1762

snatch1766

to make off with1768

snavel1795

feck1809

shake1811

nail1819

geach1821

pull1821

to run off1821

smug1825

nick1826

abduct1831

swag1846

nobble1855

reef1859

snig1862

find1865

to pull off1865

cop1879

jump1879

slock1888

swipe1889

snag1895

rip1904

snitch1904

pole1906

glom1907

boost1912

hot-stuff1914

score1914

clifty1918

to knock off1919

snoop1924

heist1930

hoist1931

rabbit1943

to rip off1967

to have off1974

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22^v Some corne away lag, in bottle & bag. Some steale for a iest, eggs out of the nest.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36^v Poore Cunney, so bagged, is soone ouer lagged.

a. To transport or send to penal servitude.

ΘΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > transport

transport1666

marinate1673

lag1819

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag, to transport for seven years or upwards.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvi. 261 They'll ask no questions after him, fear they should be obliged to prosecute, and so get him lagged.

1870 C. Reade Put Yourself in his Place II. 288 Let Little alone, or the trade will make it their job to lag you.

b. To catch, apprehend.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

embarge1585

cap1590

reprehend1598

prehenda1605

embar1647

nap1665

nab1686

bone1699

roast1699

do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

1847 T. De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 582/1 Aladdin himself only escaped being lagged, for a rogue and a conjurer, by a flying jump after his palace.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. i. 252 They tell him adventures of how they were nearly ‘lagged by the constables’.

1891 N. Gould Double Event xxxiv I'm a dead un. You'll never lag me alive, you cur!

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lagv.⁴

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Etymology: < lag n.²

transitive. To cover (a boiler, etc.) with wooden ‘lags’, strips of felt, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > cover wall, pipes, etc., to keep warm

lag1887

1887 Ewing in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 488/1 The loss of efficiency due to this cause will therefore be greater in an unprotected cylinder than in one which is well lagged or covered with non-conducting material.

1888 in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield

1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Lagging a boiler, covering a boiler in a steamship with some material to keep in the heat.

1898 Dublin Rev. Apr. 423 Lagged outside with layers of felt two centimetres thick.

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lagv.⁵

Brit.

/laɡ/, U.S.

/læɡ/

Etymology: Compare lag n.³

dialect.

(See quot.) Levens (1570) renders lag v. by fatiscere, which it is barely possible may be meant to express the sense of this vb. along with that of lag v.¹

ΚΠ

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Lag, to crack or split from the centre like wood from heat or hasty drying.

1888 in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield

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> see also

also refers to : † lagelagn.

n.¹adj.a1525

n.²1659

n.³1579

n.⁴1567

n.⁵1811

n.⁶1624

v.¹a1300

v.²1530

v.³1573

v.⁴1887

v.⁵1881

单词	lag
释义	lagn.¹adj. Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Etymology: Belongs to lag v.²; the origin and mutual relation of the words are obscure. In some parts of England fog , seg , lag , or foggie , seggie , laggie , are used in children's games as substitutes for ‘first, second, last’ (see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Fog). This suggests the possibility that lag may have originated in the language of sports as an arbitrary distortion of last ; but even in that case the word may have coalesced with a homophone of independent origin. The current hypothesis that the adjective is < Welsh llag (earlier llac ), Irish and Gaelic lag , slack, weak, is highly improbable. There is some affinity of sense between lag and lack adj. (compare to come lag and to come lack ); the former might conceivably be an alteration of the latter under the influence of words like flag v.¹, fag n.² Compare further Middle Danish lakke to go slowly (Kalkar). A. n.¹ 1. The last or hindmost person (in a race, game, sequence of any kind). Now rare except in schoolboy use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last lagc1530 lattermost1627 tail-ender1885 tail-end Charlie1941 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [noun] > the placing of one thing after another > the last one latest1447 lagc1530 postreme1553 closer1961 c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Biij ^v In the tauerne, remayne they last for lag. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvj Since eche man bragges, the lagge of vs A shendefull shame him take. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Dernier Le dernier le loup le mange,..lags come to the lash. a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) vii. 112 The novissimus virorum, the lag and fag of all a very scum of men. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Mm4/3 Lag, a School-Word that signifies the last, le dernier. As, the Lag of a Form, le dernier d'une Classe. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 202 In Threats the foremost, but the lag in Fight. 1776 T. Jefferson Writings (1893–9) II. 39 The omission of H—— and B—— and my being next to the lag [in the nomination of delegates] give me some alarm. 1777 S. Johnson Let. 25 Oct. (1992) III. 87 How long do you stay at Brighthelmston? Now the Company is gone why should you be the lag? 1825 Sporting Mag. 16 310 Ward first mounted the stage and Cannon was no lag. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home iv. 38 I say, Julian, I vote we both try for lag next trials. It'd save lots of grind. 1890 A. Lang Life Sir S. Northcote I. i. 15 Stafford Northcote occupied the undistinguished place of ‘lag’ in his form. †2. plural. What remains in a vessel after the liquor is drawn off; dregs, lees. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask drastc1000 drosenc1000 drega1300 lagsa1525 bottom1563 snuff1592 tilta1603 tilting1611 heeltap1753 dunder1774 tops and bottoms1905 a1525 Regul. Houshold Earl of Northumb. (1770) 57 That Vinacre be made of the brokyn Wynes..And that the Laggs be provide by the Clerks of the Hous and markid after thei be past drawing that thei can be set no more of broche. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 65 Transmutations..of old lags of Sacks or Malmesies..into Muskadels. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. iv. 116 Laggs of Claret and Sack. 1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 199 Muskadel is sophisticated with the Laggs of Sack. †3. Perhaps: the lowest class. (Cf. lag-end n. at Special uses.) Obsolete. rare.The meaning appears only as a result of later editorial emendation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] laga1616 raff1673 Panchama Bandham1800 lower working class1824 proletariat1852 mudsill1858 netherworld1889 underworld1899 subproletariat1918 underclass1918 lumpenproletariat1924 Fifth Estate1966 Fourth World1976 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 80 The Senators of Athens, together with the common legge [Rowe (1709) and later editors lag (also tag)] of People. View more context for this quotation] 4. [ < lag v.²] a. The condition of lagging. Π 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 114 When Spaniard meets Spaniard, then comes, not the tug, but the lag, of war. b. in Physics: the retardation in a current or movement of any kind; the amount of this retardation; more widely in general use: a period of time separating any phenomenon or event from an earlier one to which it is related (causally or in some other way); = time lag n. at time n., int., and conj. Compounds 2. lag of the tide: the interval by which the tide-wave falls behind the mean time in the first and third quarters of the moon. angle of lag: see angle n.² Phrases 2. See also jet lag n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > speed or direction as vector quality > rate of increase of velocity > opposite of acceleration retardationa1475 lag1855 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > time lag latency1865 time lag1886 time delay1900 lag1902 lag time1956 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. (at cited word) The lag of the tide... The lag of the steam-valve of a steam-engine. 1881 Nature 24 Feb. 399/2 The remarkable lag which takes place in the occurrence of the critical barometric epochs at the more easterly stations. 1886 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 2) xviii. 330 ϕ is called the retardation or angle of lag. 1886 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 2) xviii. 331 The retardation will increase with increased speed... There will be less lag therefore if the machine is so designed that it can be driven at a slow speed. 1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 287/1 It is obvious that at the point where B cuts the axis the induction is a maximum; hence if there were no ‘magnetic lag’ and no currents in the iron, this point should occur at the same time as that at which the current is a maximum. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 42/1 [His] method consisted in measuring the interval which elapses between the application of a potential difference..and the passage of the spark. This lag of the spark, as we may call it, is a very important quantity. 1909 Jrnl. Hygiene 9 240 He found that there is an initial period after inoculation during which growth is almost absent: the length of time of this ‘lag’ varies with the age of the culture used for inoculation and with the species of the bacillus. 1923 Glasgow Herald 2 Nov. 12/4 The operation of the ‘lag’ of two months between the period of ascertainment and the months when the wages based on such ascertainment are paid. 1934 L. T. Agger Alternating Currents iii. 38 The current goes through all the events in its cycle one-quarter of a period, or 90°, later than the p.d. For this reason it is said to lag behind the p.d. by 90°; or, expressed in another way, the angle of lag of the current is 90°. 1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 66/1 Cultural lag, slowness in adapting institutions or cultural habits to new or changing conditions or situations; the condition which ensues when certain elements of culture change more slowly than other elements. 1940 Economist 7 Dec. 707/1 It must not be forgotten that a very considerable lag must occur between the dates when insured losses are incurred and compensation is paid. In the case of certain shipping losses,..this lag may extend for the duration of the war. 1962 Encycl. Dict. Physics VII. 190/1 Lag in a control system may be defined briefly as delayed response of the output to changes of input. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VII. 153/2 No instrument responds instantaneously to a change in the measurand; the lag is dependent on the natural frequency of the instrument system and its degree of damping. B. adj. a. †Last, hindmost (obsolete); belated, lingering behind, lagging, tardy (now rare). (In early instances only absol. or predicative, and hence hardly distinguishable from the noun.) †(to come) lag of: short of, too late for, or in arrear of. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [verb (transitive)] > be late for or miss (to come) lag of1552 lose1711 to miss of ——1777 miss1823 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed remiss?1518 adjourned1538 delayed1548 long-delayed1548 lag1552 prorogued1552 dilated1556 lagging1597 retardate1598 fristeda1600 lagged1602 retarded1636 deferred1651 prorogatory1672 lated1676 postponed1819 protracted1838 suspended1848 put-off1871 hung up1878 held1906 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [adjective] > last in order latemostOE nextOE aftermostOE latestOE lastc1175 outmost1447 terminalc1475 extreme1477 hindmost1526 final1530 lag1552 uttermosta1555 darrein1555 utter1558 lattermost1566 afterward1584 dernier1602 ultime1626 ultimate1728 postreme1814 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Lagge and last. 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau v. v. sig. F.iv^v Haue not we well hunted, of blessing to come lagge? 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3^v Beshrow him that comes lagge in so good a course. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 91 Some tardy cripple..That came too lag to see him buried. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 6 I am some twelue or 14. mooneshines lag of a brother. View more context for this quotation 1624 Sir C. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 260 Your neighbour will struggle so long for place as he will be cast lagg. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 8 Beguile The Gowt and Rheume, that in lag howres attend For grey approachers. View more context for this quotation 1640 T. Carew Poems 36 There seated in those heavenly bowers, Wee'le cheat the lag, and lingring houres. 1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iii. 41 Then Hell has been among ye, And some lag Fiend yet lingers in the Grove. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 594 A fourth person, who comes lagg, as having lately appeared in print..tells us.. he died. 1743 R. Blair Grave 37 Ev'n the lag Flesh Rests. 1786 R. Burns Poems 56 An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame. 1839 D. Webster in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 100 Lauchie had looms, but was lag at the weaving. b. as an exclamation at play (see quot. 1869). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > [interjection] > call to reserve last place or turn lag1609 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C 3 Boy. Now Iohn, i'le cry first. Ioh. And i'le cry lagge. I was in hoblies hole. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Lag or Lag last is said by boys when playing at pitch and toss, or other games, in order that they may bespeak the last pitch. Compounds † lag-bellied adj. Obsolete ? slow-paced, tardy. Π 1822 T. Hood Lycus 62 From the lag-bellied toad To the mammoth. † lag-out n. Obsolete (= ‘last out’), the name of a boys' game. Π 1845 in Brasenose Ale 76 No marble in circles on the hall~step rolls, We cannot play lag-out, nor yet three-holes. Special uses lag-end n. the hinder or latter part, the fag end (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end lag-end1598 back-enda1617 tailing1646 tail-end1747 rear end1785 tailpiece1786 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part eveningOE enda1200 eventide?c1225 finea1350 tail1377 latter (last) enda1382 issue1484 latter day?1498 waning1561 last days1572 heel1584 sunsetting1593 fall1596 lag-end1598 posterior1598 sunset1599 dotage1606 exit1615 stern1623 waning timea1639 last1683 heel piecea1764 shank1828 tail-end1845 tailpiece1869 tag1882 teatime1913 end-point1921 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 24 I could be well content, To entertaine the lag end of my life With quiet houres. View more context for this quotation 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 17 In the lagge end of the same troope were driven a certaine number of faire and goodlie oxen. 1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 204 A shelter..where they may..wear away the lag-end of their madness. lag fault n. Geology a type of overthrust formed when the uppermost of a series of rocks moves more slowly than the lower ones. ΚΠ 1900 J. E. Marr in Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 1899–1900 16 461 These fissures..would have an outcrop similar to those of thrust-planes or over-faults which approached the horizontal; but they would differ from these, inasmuch as no inversion on a large scale would accompany them. We shall speak of them here as ‘lag’ faults. 1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 212 Besides these great overthrusts there is another type of relative earth movement which is known as a ‘lag fault’. 1947 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 103 100 There are several lag-faults in the district, but..only in the case of the Tirbach lag-faults is the evidence considered to be conclusive. 1963 E. S. Hills Elem. Struct. Geol. vii. 191 Lag faults.—These are low angle faults with normal fault displacement, that originate from the upward movement of the footwall block in a region of general thrusting. The hanging-wall block appears to have lagged behind in the regional movements. † lag-man n. Obsolete the last man, the one who brings up the rear. Π 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The Essex calfe or lagman, who had lost the calues of his legs by gnawing on the horslegs. lag phase n. Biology the period elapsing between the introduction of an inoculum of bacteria into a culture medium (or other new environment) and the commencement of its exponential growth. ΚΠ 1914 Jrnl. Hygiene 14 260 A seeding taken during the lag-phase grows with diminished lag. 1944 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 4) i. 6 Multiplication [of bacteria] passes through four phases: (1) Lag phase—lasting from half an hour to eight hours, during which time there is no increase in numbers..; during this time the organism adjusts itself to its new environment. 1972 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 270 41 When E. coli cells are exposed to low temperatures, they enter a prolonged lag phase. lag time n. the period of time elapsing between one event and a later, related, event, esp. between a cause and its effect; (the extent of) a lag. ΘΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > time lag latency1865 time lag1886 time delay1900 lag1902 lag time1956 1956 Nature 24 Mar. 579/1 Fragments of chorioallantoic membrane..support the growth of hæmagglutinating particles, but there is a lag-time of about ten hours. 1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 530 (table) Equipment lagtime before response. 1972 Times 26 June 12/4 The typical lag times for technological and cultural change. 1973 Nature 7 Dec. 327/1 The lag time of four years has been reduced to two at the behest of the governing council. † lag-tooth n. Obsolete a wisdom tooth (from its late appearance). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > wisdom cassall?1541 wit-tooth1601 lag-tooth1611 wisdom tooth1848 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Sophronisteri, the two teeth which grow last when a man is about twentie yeares ould, lag-teeth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lagn.² Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Forms: Also 1600s lagg. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse lǫgg. Etymology: apparently < Old Norse lǫgg, recorded only in the sense ‘rim of a barrel’ (compare 1b); but the Swedish lagg means also ‘stave’, whence laggkärl vessel composed of staves, cask. 1. a. A stave of a barrel. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels stavea1398 staff1531 barrel stave1549 hogshead stavec1580 pipe stavec1580 lag1659 laggin1825 noggin-stave1855 staver1891 1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus lxxx. 165/1 The Cooper..maketh Hoops of Hassel-rods..and Lags of Timber. 1676 Burgery of Sheffield 209 For mendyng the church yatis and barrell laggs and nayles 4s. 4d. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale †b. (See quot. 1688) Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 108/1 Lag, is a piece put into the top of a Barrel staff that is broken off at the Grooping. 2. One of the staves or laths forming the covering of a band-drum or a steam boiler or cylinder, or the upper casing of a carding machine. ΚΠ 1847 Sykes & Ogden Specif. Patent 11,798 On these bands [in a carding engine] we fix a continued series of lags or small blocks of wood. 1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. Compounds lag-link n. a link for holding a lag or bar ( Cent. Dict.). lag-machine n. a machine for shaping wooden lags (see sense 2). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lag-machine. lag-screw n. (a) a flat-headed screw used to secure lags to cylinders or drums; (b) U.S. = coach-screw vb. at coach n. and adv. Compounds 8. ΚΠ 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 26 Almost any kind of shafting can be hung with safety on wood screws, or lag screws. Draft additions 1997 lag bolt n. North American (a) a coach screw; (b) a coach bolt. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > other types of screw wrench1552 needle screw1663 female screw1667 stop-screw1680 male screw1682 wood-screw1733 right and left handed screw1738 screw eye1787 claw-screw1795 screw shaft1818 union joint1819 union screw1820 right-and-left screw1821 binding-screw1828 coach screw1874 lag bolt1893 grub-screw1903 Allen screw1910 multithread1921 self-tapper1949 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Lag-bolt. 1963 J. T. Rowland North to Adventure ix. 135 The longer lag bolts with which he had fastened it had got a strong grip in the wood. 1975 Sci. Amer. July 123/2 Lag bolts screwed into the plug and through the two-by-six boards of the well anchor the pier to the bed of the trailer. 1994 Canad. Workshop Sept. 62 Other options, good for heavy-duty applications, are a lag bolt with a shield..or a steel sleeve bolt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † lagn.³ Etymology: Of unknown origin; compare German lache cleft or mark in a tree. Compare lag v.⁵ Obsolete. A cleft or rift in timber. Also in combinations, as lag-clift (unless lagge in quot. 1579 be the adjective). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > cleft or shake lag1579 shake1651 heart shake1802 ring shake1868 gum-shake1887 1579 T. Hill Ord. Bees (1608) 24 The stocke thus cut asunder at both the ends, couer with a faire sheete, lest any lagge clifts appeare after the cutting. 1785 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 333 The ‘lag’..is a cleft, or rift, reaching sometimes from the top to the bottom of the stem, and, perhaps, to near its center. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † lagn.⁴ Forms: Also 1500s lagge. Etymology: Possibly < lage vb. at lage n. Derivatives to wash. Cant. Obsolete. lag of duds n. a ‘buck’ or ‘wash’ of clothes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed > quantity washed in one tub lag of duds1567 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiii^v We wyll fylche some duddes of the Ruffemans or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3 If it be milling of a lag of duds. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lag-a dudds, a Buck of Cloths. As we cloy the Lag of Dudds, come let us Steal that Buck of Cloths. 1725 in New Canting Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lagn.⁵ Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Etymology: < lag v.³ Cant. 1. A convict who has been transported or sentenced to penal servitude. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] prisona1225 prisonerc1384 enpresonéc1425 bird1580 warder1584 canary bird1593 penitentiala1633 convict1786 chum1819 lag1819 lagger1819 new chum1819 nut-brown1835 collegian1837 canary1840 Sydney duck1873 forty1879 zebra1882 con1893 yardbird1956 zek1968 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag, a convict under sentence of transportation. 1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London 39 A few are ‘returned lags’. 1887 Westm. Rev. June 383 It was no uncommon thing to see an old ‘lag’ enlarged for good conduct. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 232 As Wildrake was walking along the beach, he met a lag who had got his ticket-of-leave. 2. A term of transportation or penal servitude. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > transportation > term of lag1821 1821 Life D. Haggart 84 Another prisoner..under sentence of lag for fourteen stretch. 1896 Daily News 13 May 9/5 I have had a look round with another man who did a lag with me. Compounds lag-fever n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Lag-fever, a term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks. lag-ship n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag ship, a transport chartered by government for the conveyance of convicts to New South Wales; also a hulk or floating prison. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lagn.⁶ Obsolete. rare. ? A flock (of geese). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] ferec975 flockOE gingc1175 rout?c1225 companyc1300 fellowshipc1300 covinc1330 eschelec1330 tripc1330 fellowred1340 choira1382 head1381 glub1382 partya1387 peoplec1390 conventc1426 an abominable of monksa1450 body1453 carol1483 band1490 compernagea1500 consorce1512 congregationa1530 corporationa1535 corpse1534 chore1572 society1572 crew1578 string1579 consort1584 troop1584 tribe1609 squadron1617 bunch1622 core1622 lag1624 studa1625 brigadea1649 platoon1711 cohort1719 lot1725 corps1754 loo1764 squad1786 brotherhood1820 companionhood1825 troupe1825 crowd1840 companionship1842 group1845 that ilk1845 set-out1854 layout1869 confraternity1872 show1901 crush1904 we1927 familia1933 shower1936 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > group of teamc1450 gaggle?1478 lag1624 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. Hee hath stopped the mouths of all Protestants for euer; the proudest of them dare not hiscere hereafter against Himselfe, or any one of his Lagg. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? 180 This Goose the Gagger may put his Gag into the Bils of many of his owne Gaggle, as well as into others Lagges. 1896 Eng. Dial. Dict. A-lag, Cum., the sporting term for a flock of geese.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † lagv.¹ Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare dag v.¹, clag v. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To daggle, render wet or muddy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with water or mud laga1300 the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by rubbing > mark, stain, etc. laga1300 to take out1560 emaculatea1648 spot1915 a1300 [implied in: W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 173 Cy vent un garsoun esclaté, bilagged wit swirting. (at belag v.)]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 283 Laggyd, or bedrabelyd, labefactus, paludosus. Laggyn, or drablyn, palustro. 2. intransitive. To daggle, become wet or muddy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud drabblea1400 lag1682 spoil1697 to look (feel) like something the cat has brought in1928 muddy1953 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 230 Let them [sc. your new garments] not lag with dust and dirt. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lagv.² Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s lagg, 1500s–1700s lagge. Etymology: See lag n.¹ and adj. 1. a. intransitive. To fail to maintain the desired speed of progress; to slacken one's pace, as from weakness or sloth; to fail to keep pace with others; to hang back, fall behind, remain in the rear. Often with behind adv. or const. after, behind prepositions; also with on. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > lag or fall behind lag1530 to fall behind ——a1626 the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > decrease speed > slacken pace from weakness or exhaustion lag1530 flag1639 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > fall behind lag1530 to fall astern1599 drop1823 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow slowly draga1513 draggle1577 drail1598 lag1651 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601/1 I lagge behynde my felowes, je trayne... Why lagge you ever behynde on this facion? 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiii^v/2 To Lag, fatigare. fatiscere. 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. ii. sig. E^v To prison with the Villaine, Death shall not long lag after him. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlix. 118 The Admirall..began to lagge a sterne, and with him, other two shippes. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. iii. xxvi And lagg'd like Baggage Treasure in the Wars. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 266 I shall not lag behinde, nor erre The way, thou leading. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 589 He lags, and labours in his flight. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 137. ⁋4 His Master..wondered what made the lazy young Dog lag behind. 1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 24 Superfluous lags the Vet'ran on the Stage. 1800 W. Wordsworth Brothers 363 He, at length Through weariness,..lagged behind. 1801 M. Edgeworth Knapsack in Moral Tales II. 150 My poor fellows, how they lag. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 107 Suffering them [his mules] to lag on at a snail's pace. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 46 He grew silent and gloomy, and lagged behind the rest. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (1871) ii. iii. 260 When they had crossed three or four fields without a check, Arthur began to lag. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 492 If the sign is present, the upper eyelids lag, not closely following the movements of the eyeballs. b. of immaterial things and figurative. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 34 Fortune in fauor makes him lagge behinde. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 13 And this our Gildas [the Fourth], who laggeth last in the Teame of his Name-sakes. 1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients vi. 40 We lagg in the care of Things of no kin to us. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 25 Ideas came into her Mind So fast, his Lessons lagg'd behind. 1764 S. Foote Lyar iii. ii. 64 Think how the tedious time has lagg'd along. 1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 12 When we speak of the commerce with our Colonies, fiction lags after truth. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 94 The vocal parts generally lagging a little behind the instrumental. 1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics vi. 84 Business lagged in every department of the administration. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. ii. 514 Military preparation does lag at a shameful rate. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 332 The work lagged for five years in the hands of the bishops. 1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 287/2 The maximum induction lags behind the maximum magnetising force. 2. transitive. To cause to lag; to retard, to tire. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > reduce (speed) > cause to reduce speed check1393 slow1557 lag1570 slack1577 slacken1580 slug1605 trasha1616 overslow1619 beslowa1644 steady1812 to slow up1868 decelerate1899 1570 [see sense 1a]. 1632 T. Heywood Iron Age v. sig. K3 The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye. 1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes Paraphr. cli. 298 Thine Armours load, but laggs faint heart, for flight the more unfit. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Lagg'd, tired as with carrying a load. †3. transitive. To drag after one. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind drawOE harry1340 traila1380 traina1500 lag1530 strakec1530 entrain1568 drail1598 lurry1664 toboggan1886 schlep1911 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 601/1 He laggeth the dogge at his horse tayle: il trayne le chien a la queue de son cheual. 4. transitive. To lag behind. ΚΠ 1930 M. G. Malti Electr. Circuit Anal. iii. 26 A curve lags the origin if its zero value..occurs after the point x = 0. 1966 L. A. Manning Electr. Circuits iv. 56 The current function lags the voltage by 90 degrees; that is, the current rises to a maximum value a quarter of a cycle later than does the voltage. 1973 Nature 21 Dec. 444/1 After the time step, Atomic Time will lag ut by 0·7 s. Derivatives † lagged adj. Obsolete delayed, tardy. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed remiss?1518 adjourned1538 delayed1548 long-delayed1548 lag1552 prorogued1552 dilated1556 lagging1597 retardate1598 fristeda1600 lagged1602 retarded1636 deferred1651 prorogatory1672 lated1676 postponed1819 protracted1838 suspended1848 put-off1871 hung up1878 held1906 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 O, I could eate Thy fumbling throat, for thy lagd censure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lagv.³ Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ †1. transitive. To carry off, steal. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] pick?c1300 takec1300 fetch1377 bribec1405 usurpc1412 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 embezzle1495 lifta1529 pilfer1532 suffurate1542 convey?1545 mill1567 prig1567 strike1567 lag1573 shave1585 knave1601 twitch1607 cly1610 asport1621 pinch1632 snapa1639 nap1665 panyar1681 to carry off1684 to pick up1687 thievea1695 to gipsy away1696 bone1699 make1699 win1699 magg1762 snatch1766 to make off with1768 snavel1795 feck1809 shake1811 nail1819 geach1821 pull1821 to run off1821 smug1825 nick1826 abduct1831 swag1846 nobble1855 reef1859 snig1862 find1865 to pull off1865 cop1879 jump1879 slock1888 swipe1889 snag1895 rip1904 snitch1904 pole1906 glom1907 boost1912 hot-stuff1914 score1914 clifty1918 to knock off1919 snoop1924 heist1930 hoist1931 rabbit1943 to rip off1967 to have off1974 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22^v Some corne away lag, in bottle & bag. Some steale for a iest, eggs out of the nest. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36^v Poore Cunney, so bagged, is soone ouer lagged. 2. a. To transport or send to penal servitude. ΘΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > transport transport1666 marinate1673 lag1819 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lag, to transport for seven years or upwards. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvi. 261 They'll ask no questions after him, fear they should be obliged to prosecute, and so get him lagged. 1870 C. Reade Put Yourself in his Place II. 288 Let Little alone, or the trade will make it their job to lag you. b. To catch, apprehend. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 1847 T. De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 582/1 Aladdin himself only escaped being lagged, for a rogue and a conjurer, by a flying jump after his palace. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. i. 252 They tell him adventures of how they were nearly ‘lagged by the constables’. 1891 N. Gould Double Event xxxiv I'm a dead un. You'll never lag me alive, you cur! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lagv.⁴ Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Etymology: < lag n.² transitive. To cover (a boiler, etc.) with wooden ‘lags’, strips of felt, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > cover wall, pipes, etc., to keep warm lag1887 1887 Ewing in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 488/1 The loss of efficiency due to this cause will therefore be greater in an unprotected cylinder than in one which is well lagged or covered with non-conducting material. 1888 in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Lagging a boiler, covering a boiler in a steamship with some material to keep in the heat. 1898 Dublin Rev. Apr. 423 Lagged outside with layers of felt two centimetres thick. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lagv.⁵ Brit. /laɡ/, U.S. /læɡ/ Etymology: Compare lag n.³ dialect. (See quot.) Levens (1570) renders lag v. by fatiscere, which it is barely possible may be meant to express the sense of this vb. along with that of lag v.¹ ΚΠ 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Lag, to crack or split from the centre like wood from heat or hasty drying. 1888 in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : † lagelagn. < n.¹adj.a1525n.²1659n.³1579n.⁴1567n.⁵1811n.⁶1624v.¹a1300v.²1530v.³1573v.⁴1887v.⁵1881 see also
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