LAG

vt to transport for crime.

2. lag ·noun one transported for a crime.

3. lag ·noun ·see graylag.

4. lag ·noun one who lags; that which comes in last.

5. lag ·adj last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

6. lag ·adj coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

7. lag ·noun the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

8. lag ·vt to cause to lag; to slacken.

9. lag ·adj last; long-delayed;

— obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

10. lag ·vi to walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

11. lag ·vt to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. ·see lag, ·noun, 4.

12. lag ·noun the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

13. lag ·noun 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.

14. lag ·add. ·noun 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.