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Definition of Flag
Pronunciation: flăg | v. i. | 1. | To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. | | 2. | To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags. | | v. t. | 1. | To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. | | 2. | To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. | | n. | 1. | That which flags or hangs down loosely. | | 2. | A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; - commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag. | | 3. | (Zool.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. | | 4. | (Zool.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; - called also flag feather. | | v. t. | 1. | To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab. | | 2. | To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance. | | 3. | To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity. | | n. | 1. | (Bot.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus. | | v. t. | 1. | To furnish or deck out with flags. | | n. | 1. | A flat stone used for paving. | | 2. | (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. | | v. t. | 1. | To lay with flags of flat stones. |
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