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In a flagrant manner.

To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

A conflagration. [Obs.]

sel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

ling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More.

The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.