LAG

Lag ( a. ) - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Lag ( a. ) - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Lag ( a. ) - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

Lag ( n. ) - 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.

Lag ( n. ) - One transported for a crime.

Lag ( n. ) - One who lags; that which comes in last.

Lag ( n. ) - See Graylag.

Lag ( n. ) - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

Lag ( n. ) - The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

Lag ( v. i. ) - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

Lag ( v. t. ) - To cause to lag; to slacken.

Lag ( v. t. ) - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

Lag ( v. t. ) - To transport for crime.