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15 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also {flag feather}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\, v. t. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. {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 {Flag broom}, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes.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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\, v. t. To furnish or deck out with flags. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged}; p. pr & vb n. {Flagging}.] [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 streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift. Syn: To droop; decline fail languish; pine. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of Nothing so flags the spirits. --Echard. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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. {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 half-staff}, to raise it only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of mourning. {To} {strike, or 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\, v. t. [From {Flag} an ensign.] 1. To signal to with a flag; as to flag a train. 2. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flag \Flag\, v. t. To lay with flags of flat stones. The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble. --Sandys. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flag n 1: usually rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design 2: an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality [syn: {national flag}, {ensign}] 3: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: {iris}, {fleur-de-lis}, {sword lily}] 4: a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device [syn: {signal flag}] 5: flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green [syn: {pin}] 6: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable for paving [syn: {flagstone}] 7: a conspicuously marked or shaped tail v 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}] 4: decorate with flags, as of buildings 5: become less intense [syn: {ease up}, {ease off}, {slacken off}, {slack off}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: flag n. [very common] A variable or quantity that can take on one of two values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done "This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the message." "The program status word contains several flag bits." Used of humans analogously to {bit}. See also {hidden flag}, {mode bit}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: flag 1.A variable or quantity that can take on one of two values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done "This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the message." "The program status word contains several flag bits." See also {hidden flag}, {mode bit}. 2. {command line option}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-05-02) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Flag (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine. In Ex 2:3, 5, Isa. 19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew _suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam_; as _yam suph_, to denote the "Red Sea" (q.v.) or the sea of weeds (as this word is rendered, Jonah 2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See PAPER ¯T0002840, {REED}.) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here."
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