flag

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1. flag - Noun

2. flag - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.

That which flags or hangs down loosely.

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.

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

The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.

To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.

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

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

A flat stone used for paving.

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

To lay with flags of flat stones.

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White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. Jimi Hendrix

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. Howard Zinn

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge

Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave. Russian Proverb

An old flag is an honour to its captain. Italian Proverb

A flag follows the direction of the wind. Swahili Proverb

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