fag

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 ]