*fag*

n. [ It. ] (Mus.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. 1. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cigarette. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

3. A fag end in a cloth. [ PJC ]

4. A drudge. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fagged p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging ] [ 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. f&aemacr_;ge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop. ] 1. To become weary; to tire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. [ 1913 Webster ]

To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything that fatigues. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot. [ Slang, disparaging. ]
Syn. -- faggot. [ PJC ]

prop. n. a natural family of chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs, including beeches, chestnuts, and oaks; it includes the genera Castanea; Castanopsis; Chrysolepis; Fagus; Lithocarpus; Nothofagus; and Quercus.
Syn. -- family Fagaceae, beech family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The refuse or meaner part of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fag-end of business. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as burned-out, 1.
Syn. -- burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ perh. from fagot{ 5 }, a shriveled old woman. ] a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. [ Slang, disparaging ]
Syn. -- fagot, fag, fairy, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together; -- same as fagot{ 1 }.
Syn. -- fagot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a genus of plants of the buckwheat family, including the buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum.
Syn. -- genus Fagopyrum. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pos>v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting. ] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. fa`kelos bundle, fagot. Cf. Fagotto. ] 1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [ Eng. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An old shriveled woman. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. --
Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [ Political cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. See Fagot. ] (Mus.) The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Grave, n. ] The scarp of a ditch or moat. “To clean the graffages.” Miss Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leaves, collectively; foliage. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa; the southern beech.
Syn. -- genus Nothofagus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. The state or condition of a serf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A money dealer's commission; also, more commonly, the examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]