Flag
Flag (flag) , intransitive verb
[Compare Icelandic flaka to droop, hang loosely. Compare Flacker, Flag an ensign.]
1.
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast.
2.
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
The pleasures of the town begin to flag.
Flag (flag) , transitive verb
1.
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. — prior
2.
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
Nothing so flags the spirits.
Flag , noun
[Compare LG. & German flagge, Swedish flagg, Danish flag, Dutch vlag. See Flag to hang loose.]
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.
(a) (Zoology) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
(b)
(Zoology) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(c)
(Zoology) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
4.
(Zoology) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also flag feather.
Collocations (13)
Black flag , See under Black.
Flag captain or 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.
Flag , transitive verb
[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.
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.
The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.
Flag , noun
[From Flag to hang loose, to bend down.]
(Botany) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
Collocations (5)
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.
Flag , transitive verb
To furnish or deck out with flags.
Flag , noun
[Icelandic flaga, compare Icelandic flag spot where a turf has been cut out, and English flake layer, scale. Compare Floe.]
1.
A flat stone used for paving. — Woodward
2.
(Geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
Flag , transitive verb
To lay with flags of flat stones.
The sides and floor are all flagged with... marble.