flagging2 (flaging)

[Verbal n. of flag, v.] 1. The act of laying with flagstones, as a sidewalk.-2. Flagstones collectively; a pavement or sidewalk of flagstones. And in the heavenly city heard angelic feet Fall on the golden flagging of the street. Long fellow , Golden Legend, ii. flaggingly (flag'ing-li), adv . In a flagging manner; limply; languidly; wearily. Imp . Dict. flaggylt (flag'i), a. [ flag1 +-y1. Cf. flacky .] 1. Flagging; languid; limp. That basking in the sun thy bees may lie, And resting there, their flaggy pinions dry. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 2. Without flavor; insipid: as, "a great flag gy apple," Bacon. flaggy2 (flag'i), a. [ His flaggy winges, when forth he did display, Were like two sayles. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 10. Plantaines that haue a broad flaggie leafe growing in clusters and shaped like cucumbers. Purchas , Pilgrimage.