Fag (?) n.
A knot or coarse part in cloth.
[Obs.]
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Fag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging (?).] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. fgi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. fge, 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.
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Fag, v. t.
1.
To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
2.
Anything that fatigues.
[R.]
It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.
Miss Austen.
Brain fag. Med. See Cerebropathy.
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