| • | Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. |
| • | 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. |
| • | See Graylag. |
| • | 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. |
