FLAG

Definitions for the word, flag

(n.) 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.

(n.) A flat stone used for paving.

(n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

(n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

(n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.

(n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

(n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.

(n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.

(v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.

(v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.

(v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.

(v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.

(v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.

(v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.

(v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.