tagn.[Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.()2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.()3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.()4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.()Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.()5. A sheep of the first year.(Halliwell.)v. t.1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.()He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. (Macaulay.)His courteous host . . .
Tags every sentence with some fawning word. (Dryden.)2. To join; to fasten; to attach.(Bolingbroke.)3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.()v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.()n.[From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.()