noun. A barrel stave.

noun. A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.

transitive verb. To furnish or cover with lags.

intransitive verb. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle.

intransitive verb. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness.

intransitive verb. To weaken or slacken; flag.

intransitive verb. To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.

intransitive verb. To fail to keep up with (another).

intransitive verb. To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another).

intransitive verb. In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.

noun. An interval between one event or phenomenon and another.

noun. A condition of weakness or slackening.

transitive verb. To arrest.

transitive verb. To send to prison.

noun. A convict.

noun. An ex-convict.

To move slowly; fall behind; hang back; loiter; linger.

To slacken.

To clothe, as a steam-boiler, to prevent radiation of heat.

To bring into the hands of justice; cause to be punished for a crime.

To take; steal.

Slow; tardy; late; coming after or behind.

Long delayed; last.

noun. One who or that which comes behind; the last comer; one who hangs back.

noun. The lowest class; the rump; the fag-end.

noun. In mech., the amount of retardation of some movement: as, the lag of the valve of a steam-engine.

noun. In machinery, one of the strips which form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a carding-machine, or the lagging or covering of a steam-boiler or-cylinder.

noun. An old convict.

noun. A term of hard labor or transportation.

noun. In electricity, the displacement of phase of an electric wave back, or behind (in time), to another electric wave: used mainly with regard to alternating-current circuits.

noun. See lagging of the tides, under lagging.

noun. The angle corresponding to the lag of the tides; the hour-angle between the lunar transit and the flood-tide; the shifting of the earth's magnetic system from a symmetrical distribution about the noon meridian into the observed eccentric position.

adjective. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

adjective. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

adjective. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

noun. One transported for a crime.

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

transitive verb. To cause to lag; to slacken.

transitive verb. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

noun. One who lags; that which comes in last.

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

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

noun. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.

noun. See Graylag.

noun. The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

transitive verb. To transport for crime.

adjective. late

noun. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.