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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Făg'-ĕnd', n.

noun

n. [fag and end. See FAG, v. i., supra.]

  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, and the like.
  2. The refuse or meaner part of any thing. “The fag-end of business.” Collier.