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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flag
(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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flag
A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alludi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flag
A general name for the distinguishing colours of any nation. Also, a certain banner by which an admi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Flag
There are two Hebrew words rendered "flag" in our Bible:
• A word of Egyptian origin, and denoting ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Yellow
·noun A yellow pigment.
II. Yellow ·vi To become yellow or yellower.
III. Yellow ·vt To make yello...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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yellow
To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Palmetto flag
·add. ·- Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in Novem...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water flag
·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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australian flag
n.
Hot climate and countrywork have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a beltor leather ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cooper's-flag
n.
another name in New Zealandfor Raupo (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native flag
n.
See under flax, native,and flax, New Zealand.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bloody flag
A large red flag.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-officer
A term synonymous with admiral.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-ship
A ship bearing an admiral's flag.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sick-flag
The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Naples yellow
·- ·see under <<Yellow>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yellow Book
·add. ·- In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yellow-covered
·adj Covered or bound in yellow paper.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yellow-eyed
·adj Having yellow eyes.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yellow-golds
·noun A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yellow Street
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Yellow Court
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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yellow belly
A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lily, yellow
n.
a Tasmanian name for Bulbine bulbosa, Haw., N.O. Liliaceae.See Leek, Native.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-belly
n.
In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow fever
sc. the gold-fever.
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47:
«Evident symptoms of the retu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow jacket
n.
a name given to variousgum-trees, and especially to Eucalyptus melliodora,Cunn., E. ochrophlora,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow lily
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-tail
n.
The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow thyme
n.
a herb, Hibbertiaserpyllifolia, R. Br., N.O. Dilleneaceae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-wood
a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-hammer
(Picus auratus. Wilson, Ornith.) The popular name of the Golden-winged Woodpecker, the most beautifu...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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yellow belly
a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yellow admiral
A retired post-captain, who, not having served his time in that rank, is not entitled to his promoti...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow-belly
A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow fever
A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow-tail
A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag of truce
A white flag, hoisted to denote a wish to parley between the belligerent parties, but so frequently ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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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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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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 ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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deep yellow-wood
n.
Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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light yellow-wood
i.q. long-jack (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-side of a split fish
The side without the bone.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose