Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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.
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
To cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
One transported for a crime.
To transport for crime.
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.