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Show FL her ‘. FL is neither fluxion nor pain, bt Aaceldi Joined with infenfibilit Wifeman's Surgery To¥LAG. v. 7. [ flaggeren, Dutch; pleogan \ Saxor;. to fly 1. To hang loofe without ftiffnefs or tenfion ' Beds of cotton wool hung up between two trees not far from the ground; in whichy fagging dow in th middle meny gether wives an childre lie to Abbot The jade That drag the tragick melancholy night Clip dead men'sgraves Shakefpeare's Henry V1 It keeps thofe flender aerial bodies feparated an which otherwife, by reafo of thei flexiblenefs and weight, would fag or curl Boyle's Spring of the Air Like a fiery meteor funk the fun The promife of a frorm; the fhifting gale For fake by fits, and fill the fagging fails. Dryden 2. To grow fpiritlefs or dejected Juice in language is fomewhat lefs than blood for if the wegds be but becoming and fignifying, an the fenfe gentle, there is juice: but where tha wanteth, the language is thin, fagging, poor, ftarved and fhews like ftones in fack: fome men, toavoid redundancy, run into that and while they ftrive to hinder ill blood or juice they lofe their good Ben Fonfon's Difcoveries His ftomach will want victuals at the ufual hour it is once at a ftand excefs o Locke naturally fag and languifhes Addifon's Spestaror If on fublimer wings of love and praife My love above the ftarry vault I raife Lur'd by fome vain conceit of pride or luit 1 flag, 1drop, and flutter in thedutt _4rduthuot He fees afpirit hath been raifed again® him, and h only watches 'till it begins to #fag: he goes abou watching when to devour us Swift The pleafures of the town begin to flag and gro languid, giving way daily to cruel inroads from th fpleen Swift G HLAG. 2. 1, To let fall into feeblenefs; to fuffer t droop Take heed, my dear, youth flies apace As well as Cupid, Time is blind Soon muft thofe glorles of thy fac The fate of vulgar beauty find ‘The thoufand loves, that arm thy potenteye Muft drop their quivers, fag their wings, and die 2. [From fzg, a fpecies of ftone. with broad ftone Prior 'To la The fides and floor were all fagged with excellen marble Sandys A white ftone ufed for flagging floors, W oodward Frac. . /. [from the verb. 1. A water plant with a bladed leaf an - yellow flower, fo called from its inotio in the wind She too an ark of bulrafhes, and laid it in th fags by the river's brink i 3 Can bulrufhes but by the river grow Can flagstheré flourith where no waters flow ? Sandys There be divers fifhes that caft their {pawn on fag or ftones "Waltonw''s Angler Baco Let him be gir With all the grifly legion that troo Under the foot flag of Acheron Milton In either's flag the golden ferpents bear Ere&ing crefts alike, like volumes rear Dryden Then they, whofe mothers, frantick with their fear In woods and wilds the fags of Bacchus bear Cut flag roots, and the roots of other weeds Mortimer's Hufb 2. 'The colours or enfign of a fhip or landforces, by which fignals are made at fea or regiments are diftinguifhed in the field Thefe flags of France that are advanced here Before the eye and profpect of your town .- Have hither march'd to your endamagement. Shake/ VoL, I foun Dryden Wosdward on Foffils formed into fkigs as flate does er thin plates no other than fo many ftrata Danith 5 flagon French A veffe my head once Shakefpeare's Hamlet More had fent ‘him by a fuitor in Chancery tw filver flagons Bacon's Apophih Did they coin pifspots, bowlsy and fagon Int' officers of horfe and dragoons Hudibras His trufty fagon, full of potent juice Was hanging by, wotn thin with age and ufe And mingle friendly hiffings in the ait fplit FLacr'riousness. z. /. [from Aagitions. Wickednefs ; villany Fuacon. . f. [ flacced, Wellh; plaxe A mad rogue! he pour'd a flagon of Rhenith o The interpretation of that article about the fag is a ground at pleafure for opening a war. Zemple no Pope of drink with a narrow mouth The Frenchand Spaniards, when your, fags appear Waller Forget their hatred, and confent to fear wil And, harder ftill, fagitious yet not great Jafco, Ttalian 5 fafio, Spanifh. *Twixt Africa and Inde, I'll find him ouit Flagfton He dies, fad outcaft of each church and ftate Saxon 3 j{n_/l'e Harpies and hydras, or all the monfttous form than the other 3. To grow feeble: to lofe vigour Fame, whe not for fags of pedigree Part of two flags ftriated, but deepet on one fid Dryden's Don Sebaftian Jagging into a downright want of appetite the perfons, it is for the bufinefs fake as fitteft, an 3. A fpecies of ftone ufed for fmooth pavements, [facke, old French. ‘Like fowl in air too damp, and lags alon As if {he were a body in a body My fenfes too are dull and ftupify'd Their edge rebated: fure fome ill approaches either fretting itfelf into a troublefom Democracies are lefs fubject to fedition than wher there are ftirps of nobles: for if mens eyes are upo And lead his dances with difhevell'd hair My flagging foul flies under her own pitch fcarce covering the bone He hangd out as many fags as he defleryeth vef- 2, Guilty of crimes fels; fquare, if thips; if gallies, pendants," Sandys And force him to reftore his purchafe back Or drag him by the curls to a fouldeath Who with their drowfy, {low, andflagging wing ftretched out FL bein whic ar /#eodward on Fo/ffils Rofeommon One flagon walks the round, that none thould thin They either change; or ftint him in his drink. Dryd Fra'crancy n [fagrantia Latio Burning; heat; fire.Luft caufeth a flagrazcy in the eyes, as the figh and the touch ate the things defired, and therefor the fpirits refort to thofe parts. Bacon's Nat. Hiftory Fra'crRANT. adj. [flagrans, Latin, It is alway 1. Ardent; burning; eager ufed figuratively Frac-BrooM. 7. /. [from flag and broom. A thing which filleth the mind with comfor A broom for fweeping flags or paveand heavenly delight, ftirreth up fagrant defire ments, commonly made of birch-twigs and affe@ions, correfpondent unto that which th Hooker words contain or of the leaves of the dwarf palm, im ported from Spain 2. Glowing s fluthed _See Sapho, at lier toilet's greafy tatk FrAc-orricer. 7 [ [ flag and officer.] maf evenin a t fagra iffuin The commander of a {quadron begun Her grandfather was a flag-officer Addifon So morning infeéts; that in muc Shine buz, and fly-blow in the fetting {un Frad-sutp. #. /. [ flog and /bip.] 'The fhi imprinted red Re 3 in which the commander of a fleet is Their common loves, a lew Frac-worM . / [fla and aworm. Pope abandon'd pack The beadle's lath ftill fagrant on their back. Prior grub bred in watry places among flags or 4+ Notorious; flaming into notice {edge He will in the three hot months bite ata fagWalton's Angler ormty of a green gentle Fra'cever. . f, [fageolet, ¥rench. {mall flute; a fmall inftrument of win mufick Play us a leffon on your flagelet More Fracerra'tton. n /i [from fagello, Lat. "The ufe of the fcourge By Bridewell all defcend As morning pray'r and fagellation end Fra'ccingess. z /. [from flaggy. Garth Laxity limbernefs; want of tenfion 1. Weak ; lax¢ limber; not ftiff; not tenfe y wings, when forth he did difplay fla Were ‘l/i{:cg{%io fails, in which the hollow \\gn Is gather'd full, and worketh fpeedy way. Fairy 2 That bafking in the fun thy bees may lye And refting there, their faggy pinions dry 2. Wea Dryd 1in tafte; infipid Graft an apple-cion upon the ftock'of a colewort Bacon and it will bear a great faggy apple FLAGI'TIOUS. adj. [trom flagitius, Lat. 1. Wicked villanous atrocious No villainy or flagitions action was ever yet committed, but, upon a due enquiry into the eaufes o it, it will be found, thata lye was it or lait th South principal engine to effect it There's no working upon a flagitious and perverfe nature by kindnefs and difciplines L'Efrange Firft, thofe flagitious times Pregnant with unknown crimes Rofcommon Confpire to viclate the nuptial bed Perjury is a crime of fo flagitious a nature, w cannot be too careful in avoiding every approac Addifon towards it But if in noble minds fome dregs remain Not yet purg'd off; of fpleen and four difdain Difcharge that rage on more provoking crimes Nor fear a dearth in thefe fagitious times is great it furnifhes weapons to de and at worft, if the crimes be fo fa fend itfelf grant that a man is laid afide out of perfect fhame he retires loaded with the {poils of the nation. Swift With equal poize let fteddy juftice fway And flagrant criviies with certain vengeance pay But, 'till the proofs are clear, the ftroke delay Smith Fracra'tion. 2. fi [ flagro, Latin.] Burn ing Di& Fra'cstavr. » f. [ flag and flgff.] Th ftaff on which the flag is fixed The duke lefs numgrous courag but i On wings of all the winds to combat flies Fra'ceY. adj. [from fag. Hi When frau Pope His murdering guns a loud defiance roar And bloody crofles on his flag faffs rife more Dyyd FrAiv. n. f. [ fagellum, Latin 5 flegel, Ger man. 'The inftrument with which grai is beaten out of the ear the tool of th threfher Our foldiers, like the night-owl' lazy flight Or like a lazy threfher with a fai/ Fell gently down as if they ftruck their friends Shak. Hen. V When in orie night, ere glimpfe of morn His thadowy fai/ hath threth'd the corn That ten day-labourets coul Miltoy notend in this pile fhall reign a mighty priace Born for a {courge of wit, and fai/ of fenfe, Dryd The dextrous handling of the #ai/, or the plough and being good workmen with thefe tools, did no hinder Gideon' and Cincinnatus' fkill in arms Locke and government The threfher, Duck, could o'er the queen prevail The proverb faysy no fence againtt a flail Swift FLAKE. . f. [ floccus, Latin. 1. Any thing that appears loofely held together, like a flock of wool Crimfon circles, like red fakes in the element when the weather js hotteft Sidrey And frétn his wide devouring oven fen 5 A flak |
