Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Flagging"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Flagging}.] [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 streugth flags.
The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.
Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flagging \Flag"ging\, n.
A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones,
collectively.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flagging \Flag"ging\, a.
Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. --
{Flag"ging*ly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flagging
adj : weak from exhaustion [syn: {drooping}]
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