Word Meanings - FLAGGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLAGGING)

• Languid
• Faint
• weary
• feeble
• unnerved
• unbraced
• pining
• drooping
• enervated
• exhausted
• flagging
• spiritless

Related words: (words related to FLAGGING)

• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• PINNULA
  See PINNULE
• PINNULATED
  Having pinnules.
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• PINUS
  A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced
• PINWORM
  A small nematoid worm , which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• PINY
  Abounding with pines. "The piny wood." Longfellow.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• IMPINGUATE
  To fatten; to make fat. Bacon.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• POOPING
  The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• TAMPING
  1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. 2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod
• SOPPING
  more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.