FLAG

A national standard on which are certain emblems; an ensign; a banner. It is carried by soldiers, ships, etc., and com- monly displayed at forts and many other suit- able places. FLAG, DUTY OF THE. This was an ancient ceremony in acknowledgment of British sovereignty over the British seas, by which a foreign vessel struck her flag and lowered her top-sail on meeting the British flag.

See Law, Of the flag. The act of April 4, 1818, as re-enacted in Rev. St. §§ 1791-92, directs that the flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union thereon shall be thirty-seven stars, white in a blue field; that on the admission of a new State one star shall be added, such addition to take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission.

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. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. prior. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard.

That which flags or hangs down loosely. 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. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks. The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter. 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 half-staff, to raise it only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of mourning. -- To strike, or 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.

A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea. | A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | A signal flag. | The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event. | A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place. | In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked. | A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction. | The game of capture the flag. | A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face. | A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next. | A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light. | An apron. | An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character. | A groat; fourpence.

To pave with flagstones.

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. | A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks. | The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter. | A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value