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<hw>Flag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To furnish or deck out with flags.</def>

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<hw>Flag</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Icel. <ets>flaga</ets>, cf. Icel. <ets>flag</ets> spot where a turf has been cut out, and E. <ets>flake</ets> layer, scale. Cf. <er>Floe</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A flat stone used for paving.</def>

<i>Woodward.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.</def>

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<hw>Flag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To lay with flags of flat stones.</def>

<blockquote>The sides and floor are all <b>flagged</b> with . . . marble. <i>Sandys.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flagellant</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flag"el*lant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagellans</ets>, p.p. of <ets>flagellare</ets>: cf.F. <ets>flagellant</ets>. See <er>Flagellate</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also <altname>disciplinant</altname>.</def>

<h1>Flagellata</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flag`el*la"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr.L. <ets>flagellatus</ets>, <ets>p. p</ets>. <ets>See</ets> <er>Flagellate</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See <er>Infusoria</er>, and <er>Monad</er>.</def>

<h1>Flagellate</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flag"el*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flagellated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flagellating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>flagellatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>flagellare</ets> to scoure, fr. <ets>flagellum</ets> whip, dim. of <ets>flagrum</ets> whip, scoure; cf. <ets>fligere</ets> to strike. Cf. <er>Flall</er>.]</ety> <def>To whip; to scourge; to flog.</def>

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<hw>Fla*gel"late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Flagelliform.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.</def>

<h1>Flagellation</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flag`el*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagellatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>flagellation</ets>.]</ety> <def>A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.</def>

<i>Garth.</i>

<h1>Flagellator</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flag"el*la`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.</def>

<h1>Flagelliform</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fla*gel"li*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagellum</ets> a whip + <ets>-form</ets>.]</ety> <def>Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.</def>

<h1>Flagellum</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fla*gel"lum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Flagellums</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Flagella</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., a whip. See <er>Flagellate</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A long, whiplike cilium. See <er>Flagellata</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antenn\'91 and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See <er>Maxilliped</er>.</def>

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