What is the connotative meaning of flag?

Answer 1

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp., To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags., 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., 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., To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train., To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance., An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus., To furnish or deck out with flags., A flat stone used for paving., Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones., To lay with flags of flat stones.