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"Section F, G and H"

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.


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, 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.


Fag"-end" (?), n. 1.


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