[f. LAG v.2 + -ING1.] The action or condition of LAG v.2

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1600.  Holland, Livy, VI. vii. 221. What meanes this strange and unwonted lagging behind?

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1862.  Dana, Man. Geol., 41. The westward tropical flow is due simply to a slight lagging of the waters.

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1867.  Denison, Astron. without Math., 123. This is called the priming and lagging of the tides.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 915. Cardiac irregularity is a frequent consequence of tobacco-smoking, lagging and intermission being the earlier forms of it.

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