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Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged} (fl[a^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Flagging} (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Icel.
flaka to droop, hang loosely. Cf. {Flacker}, {Flag} an
ensign.]
1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible
bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
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As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. --T.
Moore.
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2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish;
as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
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The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.

Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
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Flag \Flag\, v. t. [From {Flag} an ensign.]
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.
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2. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to
flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
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3. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the
like to arouse the animal's curiosity.

The antelope are getting continually shyer and more
difficult to flag. --T.
Roosevelt.
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Flag \Flag\, n. [From {Flag} to hang loose, to bend down.]
(Bot.)
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to
either of the genera {Iris} and {Acorus}.
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{Cooper's flag}, the cat-tail ({Typha latifolia}), the long
leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels
to make the latter water-tight.

{Corn flag}. See under 2d {Corn}.

{Flag broom}, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or
rushes.

{Flag root}, the root of the sweet flag.

{Sweet flag}. See {Calamus}, n., 2.
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Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. t.
1. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into
feebleness; as, to flag the wings. --prior.
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2. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
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Nothing so flags the spirits. --Echard.
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Flag \Flag\, n. [Cf. LG. & G. flagge, Sw. flagg, Dan. flag, D.
vlag. See {Flag} to hang loose.]
1. That which flags or hangs down loosely.
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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.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of
certain hawks, owls, etc.
(b) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(c) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
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4. (Zool.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird;
-- called also {flag feather}.
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{Black flag}. See under {Black}.

{Flag captain}, {Flag leutenant}, etc., special officers
attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer.

{Flag officer}, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an
admiral, or commodore.

{Flag of truse}, a white flag carried or displayed to an
enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose
of making some communication not hostile.

{Flag share}, the flag officer's share of prize money.

{Flag station} (Railroad), a station at which trains do not
stop unless signaled to do so, by a flag hung out or
waved.

{National flag}, a flag of a particular country, on which
some national emblem or device, is emblazoned.

{Red flag}, a flag of a red color, displayed as a signal of
danger or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists.

{To dip, the flag}, to mlower it and quickly restore it to
its place; -- done as a mark of respect.

{To hang out the white flag}, to ask truce or quarter, or, in
some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a
white flag.

{To hang the flag half-mast high} or {To hang the flag
half-staff} or {To hang the flag at half-staff}, to raise it
only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of
mourning.

{To strike the flag} or {To lower the flag}, to haul it down,
in token of respect, submission, or, in an engagement, of
surrender.

{Yellow flag}, the quarantine flag of all nations; also
carried at a vessel's fore, to denote that an infectious
disease is on board.
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Flag \Flag\, v. t.
To furnish or deck out with flags.
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Flag \Flag\, n. [Icel. flaga, cf. Icel. flag spot where a turf
has been cut out, and E. flake layer, scale. Cf. {Floe}.]
1. A flat stone used for paving. --Woodward.
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2. (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which
splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
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Flag \Flag\, v. t.
To lay with flags of flat stones.
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The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.
--Sandys.
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