1. Verb
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
2. Verb
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
3. Verb
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
4. Verb
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
5. Noun
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
6. Noun
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.
7. Noun
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
8. Noun
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
9. Noun
The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
10. Verb
To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
11. Verb
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
12. Noun
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
13. Verb
To furnish or deck out with flags.
14. Noun
A flat stone used for paving.
15. Noun
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
16. Verb
To lay with flags of flat stones.
17. Verb
become less intense
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
18. Noun
a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
Vocabulary classified under Biology
19. Noun
a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
20. Noun
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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