flag-officer

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• Officer

  ·vt To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. II. Officer ·noun Specifically, a commissio...

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• officer

  A person having some command. A term applied both in the royal and mercantile navies to any one of a...

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• Officer

  It is obvious that most, if not all, of the Hebrew words rendered "officer" are either of an indefin...

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• Flag

  ·noun A flat stone used for paving. II. Flag ·vt To lay with flags of flat stones. III. Flag ·vt T...

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• Flag

  (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus ...

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• flag

  A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alludi...

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• flag

  A general name for the distinguishing colours of any nation. Also, a certain banner by which an admi...

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• Flag

  There are two Hebrew words rendered "flag" in our Bible: • A word of Egyptian origin, and denoting ...

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• marine officer

  An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT. ...

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• officer plant

  n. another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...

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• chief officer

  See chief mate ...

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• crack officer

  One of the best class. ...

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• marine officer

  An officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "usele...

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• naval officer

  One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...

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• orderly officer

  In the army. See officer of the day. ...

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• petty officer

  A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal. ...

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• second officer

  Second mate in merchantmen. ...

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• senior officer

  The commanding officer for the time being. ...

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• signal-officer

  In a repeating frigate, a signal-midshipman; in a flag-ship, a flag-lieutenant. ...

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• staff-officer

  On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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• warrant-officer

  Generally one holding his situation from particular boards, or persons authorized by the sovereign t...

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• Palmetto flag

  ·add. ·- Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in Novem...

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• Pilot flag

  ·add. ·- The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union j...

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• Water flag

  ·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers. ...

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• blue flag

  He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...

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• australian flag

  n. Hot climate and countrywork have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a beltor leather ...

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• cooper's-flag

  n. another name in New Zealandfor Raupo (q.v.). ...

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• native flag

  n. See under flax, native,and flax, New Zealand. ...

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• bloody flag

  A large red flag. ...

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• flag-share

  The admiral's share (one-eighth) in all captures made by any vessels within the limits of his comman...

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• flag-ship

  A ship bearing an admiral's flag. ...

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• flag-staff

  In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...

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• sick-flag

  The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...

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• yellow-flag

  The signal of quarantine. ...

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• flag of truce

  A white flag, hoisted to denote a wish to parley between the belligerent parties, but so frequently ...

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• foul-weather flag

  Denotes danger for boats leaving the shore; watermen's fares increase with these signals. ...

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• hoisting the flag

  An admiral assuming his command "hoists his flag," and is saluted with a definite number of guns by ...

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• officer of the day

  A military officer whose immediate duty is to attend to the interior economy of the corps to which h...

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• officer of the watch

  The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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• top the officer, to

  To arrogate superiority. ...

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• fly of a flag

  The breadth from the staff to the extreme end that flutters loose in the wind. If an ensign, the par...

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• flag-side of a split fish

  The side without the bone. ...

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