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Flag
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
(2):
(n.) A flat stone used for paving.
(3):
(n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
(4):
(v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.
(5):
(v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
(6):
(n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
(7):
(n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(8):
(v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.
(9):
(n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
(10):
(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.
(11):
(n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
(12):
(v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
(13):
(v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
(14):
(v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
(15):
(v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
(16):
(n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
(17):
(v. t.) To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
(18):
(n.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; - called also flag feather.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Flag'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/flag.html. 1828.
