n. 标志, 旗标, 旗子, 信号旗, 菖蒲

vt. 悬旗, 打旗号, 铺石板

vi. 无力地下垂

[计] 标志; 属性标记命令

[医] 单子叶植物

[经] 船籍

Flag \Flag\, v. t. [From {Flag} an ensign.]
1. To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to
flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab.

2. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to
flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.

3. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the
like to arouse the animal's curiosity.

The antelope are getting continually shyer and more
difficult to flag. --T.
Roosevelt.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged} (fl[a^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Flagging} (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [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 strength flags.

The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.

Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.


Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), 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 \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. (Zo["o]l.)
(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.

4. (Zo["o]l.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a
bird; -- called also {flag feather}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{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 {To hang the flag
half-staff} or {To hang the flag at half-staff}, to raise it
only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of
mourning.

{To strike the flag} or {To 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 \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 \Flag\, v. t.
To furnish or deck out with flags.


Flag \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 \Flag\, v. t.
To lay with flags of flat stones.

The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.
--Sandys.