Nothing so flags the spirits.
Echard.
Flag, n. [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. (Zoˆl.) (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. [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. [From Flag to hang loose, to bend down.] (Bot.) 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. To furnish or deck out with flags.
Flag, n. [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.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into
layers suitable for flagstones.
Flag, v. t. To lay with flags of flat stones.
The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.
Sandys.
Flag"el*lant (?), n. [L. flagellans, p. p. of flagellare: cf.F.
flagellant. See Flagellate.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a fanatical sect
which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and
maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the
sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.
||Flag`el*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr.L. flagellatus, p. p. See
||Flagellate, v. t.] (Zoˆl.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two
||long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See
||Infusoria, and Monad.
Flag"el*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flagellated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Flagellating (?).] [L. flagellatus, p. p. of flagellare to scoure, fr.
flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to strike.
Cf. Flall.] To whip; to scourge; to flog.
Fla*gel"late (?), a. 1. Flagelliform.