Definition of flag

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Flag (n.) 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..

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Pencel :: Pencel (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel..
Uniflagellate :: Uniflagellate (a.) Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms..
Semaphore :: Semaphore (n.) A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc..
Flagellate :: Flagellate (a.) Flagelliform.
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..
Flag :: Flag (n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
Flag :: Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter..
Pantastomata :: Pantastomata (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms..
Grievous :: Grievous (a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin..
Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..
Furl :: Furl (v. t.) To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten..
Streamer :: Streamer (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag..
Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
Fanion :: Fanion (n.) A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Calamus :: Calamus (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors..
Standard :: Standard (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign..
Salute :: Salute (v.) A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc..
Pavon :: Pavon (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon..
Guidon :: Guidon (v. t.) One who carries a flag.
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