tagged, ppl. a.
(tægd, ˈtægɪd)
[f. tag n.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; labelled.
| 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]. |
d. Of an animal: marked to help study of its habits or migrations.
| 1927 Zoologica IX. 204 Every tagged frog was given a new page. 1979 Fisherman's Weekly 21 June 4/3 More than 400 of the tagged brown and rainbow trout released into Draycote Water by fisheries officers of the Severn-Trent Water Authority have already been notified. |
e. Fastened on, appended. Cf. tag v.1 2.
| 1982 N. & Q. Feb. 80/1 A tagged-on chapter on ‘Critical History’ runs only to six pages. |
f. Computers. Marked or labelled with a ‘tag’ (tag n.1 8 e).
| 1983 Trans. Philol. Soc. 29 A tagged corpus..provides a head start for anyone undertaking more advanced linguistic analyses of the corpus. |
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 colour); 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 n.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. |
6. Biol. and Chem. = labelled ppl. a. d.
| 1945 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments XXII. 23/1 Tagged atoms are used to enable the investigator to see where the rest of his material is going. 1955 Sci. News Let. 2 July 15/1 When a plant is supplied with isotopically labeled nitrate..the ‘tagged’ element rapidly spreads throughout the tissues and is incorporated into all the major nitrogen fractions. |