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Webster 1913 Edition

Tag

Tag

,
Noun.
[Probably akin to
tack
a small nail; cf. Sw.
tagg
a prickle, point, tooth.]
1.
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3.
The end, or catchword, of an actor’s speech; cue.
4.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
[Obs.]
Tag and rag
,
the lowest sort; the rabble.
Holinshed.
5.
A sheep of the first year.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Tag

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tagged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tagging
.]
1.
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-
tagged
thread laces.
Macaulay.
His courteous host . . .
Tags
every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2.
To join; to fasten; to attach.
Bolingbroke.
3.
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See
Tag
, a play.

Tag

,
Verb.
I.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; – often with after;
as, to
tag
after a person
.

Tag

,
Noun.
[From
Tag
,
Verb.
; cf.
Tag
, an end.]
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tag

TAG

,
Noun.
[L. digitus.]
1.
A metallic point put to the end of a string.
2.
Something mean and paltry; as tag-rag people. [Vulgar.]
3.
A young sheep. [Local.]

TAG

,
Verb.
T.
To fit with a point; as, to tag lace.
1.
To fit one thing to another; to append to.
His courteous host
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
2.
To join or fasten.

TAG

,
Noun.
A play in which the person gains who tags, that is, touches another. This was a common sport among boys in Connecticut formerly, and it may be still. The word is inserted here for the sake of the evidence it affords of the affinity of languages, and of the original orthography of the Latin tango, to touch, which was tago. This vulgar tag is the same word; the primitive word retained by the common people. It is used also as a verb, to tag. [See Touch.]

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