ppl. a. [f. TAG sb.1 and v.1 + -ED.] Furnished with a tag or tags.
1. a. Of a garment: Slashed. b. Tattered. c. Bearing or wearing a tag or label; labeled.
c. 1380. Antecrist, in Todd, Three Treat. Wyclif (1851), 128. Men to kerve here morsellis wiþ tagged cloþes & crakowe pykis.
1570. Levins, Manip., 49/21. Tagged, laciniatus, infulatus.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, I. § 57. 98. The Father of the Prodigall seeing his sonne afarre off ragged and tagged.
1908. Times, 26 Dec., 10/2. By 10 o’clock every man, woman, and child … were wearing at least one tag, and among the younger men there was competition to be the most ‘tagged’ person in the city [San Francisco].
2. Of a lace or point: Having a tag or aglet.
1645. Evelyn, Diary, June. Knots of points richly tagged about their shoulders.
1714. Fr. Bk. of Rates, 45. Laces silk tagg’d per Pound 00 12.
1828. H. Best, Italy as it is, 228. The tagged ends of the ribs of whalebone by which these [parasols] are distended.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Biogr., Bunyan (1860), 37. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
3. Of cattle: Having the tail tipped with white (or other distinctive color); also, furnished with a bob or brush.
1458. Will, in Ripon Ch. Acts, 75. Unum bovem vocatum taggyd ox.
1544. in Knaresborough Wills (Surtees), I. 42. One taged whye.
1588. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), II. 33, note. A black tagged cow.
1640. Sir J. Lessley, in Antiq. Rep. (1809), IV. 436. I maun hae the tag’d tail’d trooper [horse] that stands in the staw.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1482/4. One red taged Bullock.
1852. Mundy, Our Antipodes (1857), 87. With a white-tagged brush peeping out of his pocket, the dingo’s head hanging from the whipper-in’s saddle.
4. Of wool or hair: Hanging in matted locks.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, I. 369. Skill … which trims their tails, of filth and tagged wool.
5. a. Of sheep: Having the disease known as tag.
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., III. xvii. (1668), 91. A sheep is said to be Tag’d or Belt, when by a continual squirt … he berayeth his tail in such wise, that … it scaldeth, and breedeth the scab therein.
1741. [see TAG sb.1 12].
b. Of wheat: see quot.
1892. Chamb. Jrnl., 10 Sept., 591/1. Wheat … discoloured at the tip of the kernel by smut, ‘tagged’ as it is called.
