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To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

A tribute by the head; a capitation tax. [Written also chevage and chivage.] [Obs.]

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

The state or condition of a serf.

The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. [East Indies]

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

A tree of the genus Fagus.

also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

he surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. -- Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.…

A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

on insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

See Chiefage. [Obs.]