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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, verb (used with an object) [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. --T. Roosevelt. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), verb (used without an object) [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.
As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. --T. Moore.
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. --Swift.
Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), verb (used with an object)
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. --Echard.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, noun [Cf. LG. & G. flagge, Sw. flagg, Dan. flag, D. 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. (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.
4. (Zool.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also {flag feather}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, noun [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}.
{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}, noun, 2.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, verb (used with an object) To furnish or deck out with flags.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, noun [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.
2. (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flag \Flag\, verb (used with an object) To lay with flags of flat stones.
The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble. --Sandys.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
2: a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. [syn: {masthead}, {flag}]
3: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: {iris}, {flag}, {fleur-de-lis}, {sword lily}]
4: a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device [syn: {flag}, {signal flag}]
5: flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green [syn: {pin}, {flag}]
6: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones [syn: {flag}, {flagstone}]
7: a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
verb
1: communicate or signal with a flag
2: provide with a flag; "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
3: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: {sag}, {droop}, {swag}, {flag}]
4: decorate with flags; "the building was flagged for the holiday"
5: become less intense [syn: {ease up}, {ease off}, {slacken off}, {flag}]
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