Word Meanings - FLAGGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Weak; flexible; limber. "Flaggy wings." Spenser. 2. Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• APPLE
  Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak
• INSIPIDLY
  In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.
• INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
  The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.
• APPLE-JOHN
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• INSIPID
  1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle. 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman;
• LIMBERNESS
  The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.
• APPLE-SQUIRE
  A pimp; a kept gallant. Beau. & Fl.
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• LIMBER
  The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. (more info) 1. pl.
• APPLE PIE
  A pie made of apples with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement.
• APPLE-FACED
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.
• FLAGGY
  1. Weak; flexible; limber. "Flaggy wings." Spenser. 2. Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. Bacon.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• APPLE-JACK
  Apple brandy.
• 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.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• CHESS-APPLE
  The wild service of Europe .
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• CRAPPLE
  A claw.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• UNLIMBER
  To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.
• OTAHEITE APPLE
  The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree , also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree which bears
• SCAPPLE
  To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• VI-APPLE
  See APPLE