Flag

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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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