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.