To hang loosely and laxly; droop from weakness or weariness.
To grow languid or less active; move or act more slowly; become feeble; droop; decline; fail: as, the spirits flag.
To grow stale or vapid; lose interest or relish.
To become careless or inefficient; slacken; halt.
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To flap; wave.
Synonyms To languish, pine, sink, succumb.
To cause or suffer to droop.
To make feeble; enervate; exhaust.
To place a flag over or on: as, to flag a house.
To signal or warn by the use of a flag: as, to flag a train or a steamboat.
To decoy, as game, by waving some object like a flag to excite attention or curiosity.
To tighten the seams of (a barrel) by means of flags. See flag, n. Encyc.
To lay or pave with flags or flat stones.
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A piece of turf; a sod.
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A flat stone used for paving.
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A flake of snow.
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A tuft of coarse grass.
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One of various endogenous plants with sword-shaped leaves, mostly growing in moist places; particularly, the common species of Iris, as the yellow flag or water-flag of England (I. Pseudacorus), the white flag (I. Germanica), and blue flags of the United States, as I. versicolor and I. prismatica.
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A groat; fourpence.
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A trade-name for the outer or distal portion of bristle, which is thinner and lighter than the basal portion.
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Iris Florentina, with bluish-white flowers. See Iris and orris-root.
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A piece of thin, light fabric, especially bunting, usually rectangular and oblong or square, but sometimes triangular, notched, or otherwise varied in form, ranging from a few inches to several yards in dimensions, used hanging free from a staff to which it is attached or connected by one end, for many purposes, as a signal, symbol, cognizance, or standard, and differing in size, color, and emblematic marking or ornamentation, according to its intended use.
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The wing or pinion of a bird.
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In a glass-furnace having a grate-room in each end, a part of the bed intervening between the two grate-rooms and serving as a partition between them.
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In ornithology, the tuft of long feathers on the leg of falcons and most other hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia.
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In sporting, the tail of a deer or of a setter dog.
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In music. See pennant and hook.
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The recognized standard or symbol of an extreme revolutionary party, or of those who seek social as well as political revolution or anarchy: as, the red flag of the Commune.
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A signal displayed by boats carrying powder, and by ships of war when they are shipping or discharging powder.
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A danger-signal in target-practice and on railways: used on the latter to bring trains to a stand.
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A piece of red flannel used as a lure for flsh.
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The bloody spout of a dying whale.