Sc. Obs. [var. of FLAW; cf. Sw. flaga, wind-flaga, Du. vlaag, earlier vlaeghe, vlage.] A blast or gust (of wind); a squall. Flag of fire: a flash of lightning.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. iii. 61.

        With fluidis ourset the Troianis, and at vndir
By flaggis and rayne did fra the hevin descend.
    Ibid., VII. Prol. 49.
Dym skyis oft furth warpit feirfull levyne,
Flaggis of fyir, and mony felloun flawe.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 9. In mony flag that furius wes and fell.

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