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Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden.

ssation; short quiet. Where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts. Milton. Flag of truce (Mil.), a white flag carried or exhibited by one of the hostile parties, during the flying of which hostilities are suspended. -- Truce of God, a suspension of arms promulgated by the church, which occasionally took…

A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.

To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a…

A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.

A flag or standard.

The four-colored flag of the South African Republic, or Transvaal, -- red, white, blue, and green.

A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did…

tion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.

A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.

o flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. Hawthorne.

To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose. [Colloq.]

A flag or streamer. Weale.

lor of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary. -- Yellow flag, the quarantine flag. See under Quarantine, and 3d Flag. -- Yellow jack. (a) The yellow fever. See under 2d Jack. (b) The quarantine flag. See under Quarantine. -- Yellow jacket (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Americ…

A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds. [Written also zuffolo.]