flag broom

[Eng. flag, and broom.] A broom for sweeping flags or pavements; it is commonly made of birch-twigs. *flag-ě-lět, s. [FLAGEOLET.] fla-gel-la, s. pl. [FLAGELLUM.] 1. An ensign or colors; a piece of cloth, either plain or colored, and having certain figures, lines, or marks painted or worked on it; a banner ind i- cating nationality, occupation, or intelligence. Flags of nationality are standards, ensigns, pen- nants (pendants), jacks. Flags of occupation ind i- The doctrines or practices of the Flagellants. cate service, as war, merchant, dispatch, pilot, *flag-el-lănt-ism, s. [Eng. flagellant ; -ism.] (Kingsley.) from Lat. flag ell antes, pl. of flagellans =whipping, pr. par. of flagello =to whip; flagellum =a whip, a scourge.] Ch. Hist .: A Christian sect which arose in 1260 at