Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) The act or process of deflagrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

As loose it [ the sail ] flagged around the mast. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift.

Syn. -- To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having a flagellum or flagella. [ PJC ]

2. having a flagellum or flagella.
Syn. -- flagellate{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. (b) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail. (c) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennæ and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Debauched principles and flagitious practices. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times. Pope.

Syn. -- Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate; abandoned. See Atrocious.

-- Fla*gi"tious*ly, adv. -- Fla*gi"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sentence so flagitiously unjust. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Shipwreck Kelly ] was the great flagpole sitter of the thirties, the founding father of the whole discipline, who provided inspiration for many and even the pseudonym for one -- Van Nolan, who also called himself Shipwreck. Any serious polesitter believes himself an avatar of Shipwreck Kelly, and I was then and am now no exception. From: John A. Gould, Aerie (Berkshire Review, Volume XI, Number 1, Spring, 1975).

The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen. Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity consisted in living on top of a pillar. By carrying out this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they were addicted. Walter Goffart, FOREIGNERS IN THE HISTORIES OF GREGORY OF TOURS (https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/download/15346/20501).

Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. [ 1913 Webster ]

A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious. [ 1913 Webster ]