ppl. a. [f. FAG v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Flaccid, drooping. Obs.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, VI. 88. They incontinent become slacke, narrow together, fagde, and shorter.
2. Wearied out, excessively fatigued.
1780. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary & Lett., May. I felt horribly fagged.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. xlvii. 97. In opening this book, the reader will allow me to turn over leaf after leaf, and describe to him, tribe after tribe, and chief after chief, of many of those whom I have visited, without the tediousness of travelling too minutely over the intervening distances; in which I fear I might lose him as a fellow-traveller, and leave him fagged out by the way-side, before he would see all that I am anxious to show him.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., I. v. 57. You look thin and fagged.
1883. E. Pennell-Elmhirst, The Cream of Leicestershire, 300. I never saw men hotter than they were this Friday. I have seldom seen as many fagged faces as on Saturday.
