Lag

·vt To transport for crime.

II. Lag ·noun One transported for a crime.

III. Lag ·noun ·see Graylag.

IV. Lag ·noun One who lags; that which comes in last.

V. Lag ·adj Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

VI. Lag ·adj Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

VII. Lag ·noun The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

VIII. Lag ·vt To cause to lag; to Slacken.

IX. Lag ·adj Last; long-delayed;

— obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

X. Lag ·vi To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

XI. Lag ·vt To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. ·see Lag, ·noun, 4.

XII. Lag ·noun The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

XIII. 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.

XIV. 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.