FLAGGING

drooping, flagging

(adjective) weak from exhaustion

flagging

(noun) a walk of flagstones; “the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative”

flagging

(noun) flagstones collectively; “there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place”

FLAG

flag

(verb) provide with a flag; “Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately”

flag

(verb) communicate or signal with a flag

flag

(verb) decorate with flags; “the building was flagged for the holiday”

sag, droop, swag, flag

(verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

flagging

present participle of flag

Noun

flagging (plural flaggings)

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

The process by which something flags or tires.

Source: Wiktionary

Flag"ging, n.

Definition: A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

Flag"ging, a.

Definition: Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

– Flag"ging*ly, adv.

FLAG

Flag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Flagging.] Etym: [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.

Flag, 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.

Flag, n. Etym: [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. (Zoöl.) (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.

Flag, v. t. Etym: [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.

Flag, n. Etym: [From Flag to hang loose, to bend down.] (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

Flag, v. t.

Definition: To furnish or deck out with flags.

Flag, n. Etym: [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.)

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

Flag, v. t.

Definition: To lay with flags of flat stones. The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble. Sandys.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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