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To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible
bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. |
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To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish;
as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. |
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To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into
feebleness; as, to flag the wings. |
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To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. |
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That which flags or hangs down loosely. |
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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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A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain
hawks, owls, etc. |
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A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks. |
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The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter. |
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To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train. |
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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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An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to
either of the genera Iris and Acorus. |
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To furnish or deck out with flags. |
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A flat stone used for paving. |
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Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into
layers suitable for flagstones. |
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To lay with flags of flat stones. |
