flaggy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.

   “His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]”

2. sıfat Tasteless; insipid.

   “Yet it is reported, that in the Low Countries they will graft an apple cion upon the stock of a colewort, and it will bear a great flaggy apple, the kernel of which, if it be set, will be a colewort, and not an apple.”

3. sıfat Tending to split into layers like flagstones.

   “If this view be correct there must have been a great difference in the sedimentation of the two areas, as the thick beds consist of alternations of flaggy sandstone with occasional true sandstone, almost pure limestones, calmstones, and few or no real flagstones.”

4. sıfat Abounding in flags (plants with sword-shaped leaves).

   “[…] the fish begin to get into drains or ditches, or rushy, flaggy eddies; it is always worth while to run the net round such places at that season, quietly to […] beat the flags out, […]”