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noun

Flagging n. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

verb

Flag v. t.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. "Nothing so flags the spirits."

Flag v. t.

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.

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

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."

Flag v. t. To furnish or deck out with flags.

Flag v. t. To lay with flags of flat stones. "The sides and floor are all flagged with... marble."

Flag v. i. (past & past part. flagged; pres. part. flagging)

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."

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."

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

adjective

Flagging adj. Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

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Etymology of 'Flagging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... large fireplace afforded but scant hiding places. Sobieska carefully tapped each board separately to ascertain if a secret receptacle had been formed in such a fashion, but the floor was perfectly solid. He tried the flagging of the hearth as well as the brick arch of the fireplace with no more success. He was about to acknowledge failure when Carter accidentally turned over one of the charred logs lying at his feet. An exclamation burst from the ...

— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton

... wife; a gang of white ruffians shot and then burned a negro family of three peacefully working in the fields; a man who went to the front door to see who had tapped on his window was shot through the heart; a striker was killed by a twenty-five-pound piece of flagging thrown from a roof; there was a gun fight of colored men at Madison, Wisconsin, at which three were shot; a gang of negro ruffians killed and mutilated a white woman (with a baby in her arms) and her husband; masked robbers called a man to his barn at Winston-Salem, ...

— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train

... surrounding cities, blockaded the Milanese in their capital, and forced them to receive him as their Duke in 1450. Italy had lost a noble opportunity. If Florence and Venice had but taken part with Milan, and had stimulated the flagging energies of Genoa, four powerful republics in federation might have maintained the freedom of the whole peninsula and have resisted foreign interference. But Cosimo de' Medici, who was silently founding the despotism of his own family in Florence, preferred to see a duke in Milan; and Venice, ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... for a time at the blank page, which now promised to remain as blank as the future then seemed, the fact suddenly occurred to him that even genius often spurred its flagging or dormant powers by stimulants. Surely, then, he, in his pressing emergency, had a right to avail himself of this aid. A little brandy might awaken his imagination, which would then kindle with ...

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