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   Flag (flăg), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flagged (flăgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flagging (flăgˈgĭng).] [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 (flăg), 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, 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, 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, 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, v. t. To furnish or deck out with flags.
   
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   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, 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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