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Word Meanings - LAGGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The clothing , as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading. 2. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

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  • LOITERER
    1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
  • PROCRASTINATOR
    One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.
  • PROCRASTINATE
    To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay;
  • PROCRASTINATION
    The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.
  • DAWDLE
    To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray. (more info) Etym:
  • LOITERINGLY
    In a loitering manner.
  • PROCRASTINATORY
    Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory.
  • TARDY
    1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
  • DAWDLER
    One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
  • LAGGARD
    Slow; sluggish; backward.
  • BEHINDHAND
    1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
  • LAGGINGLY
    In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
  • LOITER
    1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. Spenser.
  • LAGGING
    The clothing , as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading. 2. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
  • LAGGER
    A laggard.
  • DILATORY
    dilatus, used as p. p. of differe to defer, delay: cf. F. dilatoire. 1. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant. 2. Marked by
  • BASTARDY
    1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
  • INDILATORY
    Not dilatory.
  • SLAGGY
    Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.
  • DASTARDY
    Base timidity; cowardliness.
  • FLAGGY
    1. Weak; flexible; limber. "Flaggy wings." Spenser. 2. Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. Bacon.

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