fag

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
2. n. A drudge.
3. n. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
4. v. To work to exhaustion; toil.
5. v. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.
6. v. To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.
7. n. Slang A cigarette.
8. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To become weary; fail in strength; be faint with weariness.
2. To labor hard or assiduously; work till wearied.
3. To act as a fag; perform menial services for another.
4. To tire by labor; exhaust: often with out.
5. To use or treat as a fag or drudge; compel to labor for one's benefit; cause to perform menial services for one.
6. To beat.
7. n. A laborious drudge.
8. n. In certain English public schools, as Eton, Harrow, and Winchester, a schoolboy of a lower class who performs menial services for another boy who is in the highest or next highest form or class, having to prepare his breakfast, carry messages, etc., in return for which protection and assistance in various ways are accorded. The system of fagging is now much milder than formerly.
9. n. A fatiguing or tiring piece of work; a wearisome task.
10. n. The fringe at the end of a piece of cloth, or at the end of a rope.
11. n. The end; fag-end.
12. n. A knot or blemish in the web of cloth; an imperfect or coarse part of such a web.
13. To become untwisted, as the end of a rope; ravel: usually with out.
14. n. Long, coarse grass.
15. n. A mink.

Wiktionary

1. n. In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
2. n. A photovoltaic cell that is no longer in use.
3. n. A cigarette.
4. n. The worst part or end of a thing.
5. n. A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
6. n. Term used in UK public schools for a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
7. n. A male homosexual.
8. n. An annoying person.
9. n. A homosexual person
10. v. To make exhausted, tired out.
11. v. To droop; to tire.
12. v. For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in UK public schools.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A knot or coarse part in cloth.
2. n. a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot.
3. v. To become weary; to tire.
4. v. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
5. v. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
6. v. To tire by labor; to exhaust.
7. v. Anything that fatigues.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
2. v. act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
3. n. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
4. v. work hard
5. n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man