tag1 (tag)

[Early mod. E. tagge; For no cause, gentlemen, Unle it be for wearing shoulder-points With longer taggs than his. Fletcher ( and another ?), Nice Valour, iii. attached to the end An ornamental tag of pewter of a leather strap, 13/16 in. in width. Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire , N. S., V. 197. 2. Hence, any pendant or appendage; a part or piece hanging loosely from the rest, as a flap, string, lock of hair, tail, or other appendage. IMG:content-2770.png:[blocks in formation] tag2 (tag), n. [Formerly also tagg ; also tig- tag (appar. a varied redupl. of tag ) or simply tig ; origin uncertain; connection with tag1 (as of a game in which one player follows or tags after the others') is not clear; and con- nection with L. tangere (√ tag , touch, as if 'touching') is out of the question.] A chil- dren's game in which one player chases the others till he touches or hits (tags) one of them, who then takes his place as tagger. The latter is commonly designated only as it , as in the expre ions "I will be it " (at the beginning of the game), "You're it " (to one who has been touched). After they were cloyed with hide-and-seek, they all played tagg till they were well warmed. Cro -tag, a variation of tag in which any one of the players can run acro the path of the tagger, who must then abandon the previous pursuit and chase the cro ing player until he is caught or until another player cro es. (See also squat - tag .) tag2 (tag), v . t .; pret. and pp. tagged , ppr. tag- ging . [Cf. tag2, n.] To touch or hit, as in the game of tag. tag3 (tag), n. [E. dial. also teg ; origin uncer- tain. Connection with stag , steg , can hardly be a erted.] A young sheep of the first year. tag-alder (tag'alder), n. A name for the al- der in the United States, referring to Alnus in can a or A. serrulata in the eastern part, and usually to A. rubra on the Pacific coast. [Col- loq.] Spenser, State of Ireland. Will you hence, Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear leafy branches are fed to cattle. tag-belt (tag'belt), n. Same as tag - sore . tag-boat (tag'bōt), n. A row-boat towed behind a steamboat or a small sailing ve el. [Local, I got into the schooner's tag - boat quick, I tell ye. S. O. Jewett , Deep haven, p. 107. A loose or unconnected tag-end (tag'end), n. end; the concluding part. [Colloq.] She heard the tag - end of the conversation. Heywood , Royal King (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 14). They all went down into the dining-room, where it was full of tag , rag , and bobtail , dancing, singing, and drink- ing. Pepys , Diary, March 6, 1660. Tag , Rag, and Bobtail are capering there, Worse scene, I ween, than Bartlemy Fair! tagl (tag), v .; pret. and pp. tagged , ppr. tag- ging . [ tag1 , n.] I. trans. 1. To furnish with a tag of any kind; fix or append a tag or tags to. But is it thus you English Bards compose? With Runic Lays thus tag insipid Prose? Prior, To Boileau Despreaux (1704). To tag all his stupid observations with a "Very true." Goldsmith , Citizen of the World, xxxii. earlier in Fuchs, 1542), orig. name of T. patula and T. erect a among herbalists; by Fuchs said to have been used by Apuleius for a kind of tansy; by others said, from the beauty of the flowers, to be Tages , an Etruscan divinity, commonly represented as a beautiful youth.] A genus of composite plants, of the order Hele- nioideæ , type of the subtribe Tagetineæ . It is characterized by usually radiate flower-heads with a pap- pus of five or six awns, and surrounded by a single row of equal involucral bracts which are connate into a more or le lobed cup or cylinder, and are dotted with oily glands. There are about 20 species, natives of America from Buenos Ayres to Mexico. They are smooth erect branching or diffuse herbs, bearing opposite and commonly pinnately di ected leaves, and yellow or orange flower-heads, which are long-stalked, large, and showy, or densely corymbed and smaller. Many species have an offensive odor; T. micrantha has the scent of anise. The two most com- monly cultivated species, T. patula , the French marigold, erect a, the African marigold, are strong-scented annuals; the latter, the African tansy or flos Aphricanus of the herbalists (from De L'Obel, 1581), now occurs nat- uralized in China and India, where it has been extensive- ly cultivated. T. tenuifolia (T. sign at a ), a nearly scent- le Peruvian species, is valued for its long-continued flow- ering. T. lucid a , a Mexican perennial cultivated for its numerous small yellow fragrant flowers, approaches the southern border of the United States, and two species, T. micrantha , with inconspicuous flowers, and T. Lemmoni , with ornamental flowers, extend into Arizona. tag-fastener (tag'fås nėr), n. Any device for securing a tag or label to a bale, bag, etc.; a tag-holder. taggt, n. An obsolete spelling of tag2 . tagged (tagd), a. Furnished with a tag or tags. The pack already straining at his [the fox's) well- tagged The Field, Jan. 2, 1886. (Encyc. Dict .) mired him, and went to him to have leave to putt his Paradise Lost into a drama in rhyme. Mr. Milton rebrush. ceived him civilly, and told him he would give him leave to tagge his verses. who tags or attaches one thing to another.-2. That which is joined or appended to anything; an appendage. So wild, so pointed, and so staring, That I should wrong them by comparing Hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers 3. The pursuer in the game of tag.-4. A de- vice for removing tag-locks from sheep.-5. pl. Very thin sheet-iron, either coated or not coated with tin. The latter is known as black taggers ; the former is sometimes called simply taggers , and some- times taggers tin. This material is used for a great variety of purposes where cheapne is desirable and strength not e ential. In substance they [tin-plates] differ from a sheet of taggers , as thin as paper itself, to a plate of ten times that Of that dread kind which must not be Unle in dread extremity, The Taghairm call'd; by which, afar, Our sires foresaw the events of war. IMG:content-2771.png:[blocks in formation] tagtail