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Fag-end

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Fag´-end´
n.1.An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, etc.
2.The refuse or meaner part of anything.
The fag-end of business.
- Collier.
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They say the jail chaplains are mostly the fag-end o' the clergy.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
They say that this is only the fag-end of the storm that we are getting here, and that it's been raging for nearly twenty-four hours on the east coast.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
He occasionally made an attempt to smarten himself, and hum the fag-end of a tune; but his relapses into profound melancholy were only made the more impressive by the mockery of a hat exceedingly on one side, and a shirt-collar pulled up to his eyes.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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