2. Last; long-delayed; — obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life." Shak.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag souls." Dryden.
LAG
Lag, n.
1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] "The lag of all the flock." Pope.
2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. Shak.
3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Graylag. 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.
LAG
Lag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging.]