See Also: Behan, Brendan(dictionary)
Flag-to-Flag - Motor Sports(gambling)
Behan, Brendan (Francis)(encyclopedia)
flag(1)(dictionary)
flag(8)(dictionary)
Red Flag(money)
flag(7)(dictionary)
flag(6)(dictionary)
flag(4)(dictionary)
Flag(money)

Behan, Brendan (oh) and flag(2) (iou)


Behan, Brendan (oh)



(1923-64) an Irish writer who describes his experience of being in prison because of IRA activities, in his play The Quare Fellow and in his novel Borstal Boy

flag(2) (iou)



flag noun1. [flag] LME.

Any of various plants, esp. irises, with sword-shaped leaves; esp. (more fully water flag, yellow flag) a yellow-flowered Eurasian iris, Iris pseudacorus, common in streams and pools. LME.
sweet flag: see SWEET adjective & adverb.
Bible (AV): Job 8:11 Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?
b. In pl. or collect. A kind of coarse grass. L16.
The blade or long slender leaf of a cereal or Other plant. L16.
R. Jefferies The wheat was then showing a beautiful flag.
Comb.: flag-root N. Amer. (the root of) sweet flag, Acorus calamus.