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Webster 1913 Edition
Fag
Fag
(făg)
Noun.
1.
A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw.
[Obs.]
Fag
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fagged
(făgd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fagging
(făg′gĭng)
.] [Cf. LG.
fakk
wearied, weary, vaak
slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai
, equiv. to fāch
devoted to death, OS. fēgi
, OHG. feigi
, G. feig
, feige
, cowardly, Icel. feigr
fated to die, AS. fǣge
, Scot. faik
, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag
to droop.] 1.
To become weary; to tire.
Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to
fag
. G. Mackenzie.
2.
To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Read,
fag
, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.
3.
To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
To fag out
, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
Fag
,Verb.
T.
1.
To tire by labor; to exhaust;
as, he was almost
. fagged
out2.
Anything that fatigues.
[R.]
It is such a
fag
, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fag
FAG
,Verb.
T.
FAG
,Noun.
FAG
,Verb.
I.
To become weary; to fail in strength; to be faint with weariness.
The Italian began to fag.
[A vulgar word.]
FAG
,Noun.