Lag /(?)/

Lag

a.
  1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.]
    Came too lag to see him buried.
  2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
  3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.]

Lag

n.
  1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.]
  2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
    The common lag of people.
  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.; (Mach.)
  5. See Graylag. (Zool.)
  6. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
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

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging

  1. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

Lag

v. t.
  1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.]
  2. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. (Mach.)

Lag

n.
  1. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]

Lag

v. t.
  1. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
    She lags us if we poach.