These are the meanings of the letters AFLIG when you unscramble them.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
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Fail (v. i.)
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
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Fail (v. i.)
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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Fail (v. i.)
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
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Fail (v. i.)
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
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Fail (v. i.)
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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Fail (v. i.)
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
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Fail (v. t.)
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
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Fail (v. t.)
To miss of attaining; to lose.
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Fail (v. i.)
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
Death; decease.
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Flag (v. i.)
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
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Flag (v. i.)
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
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Flag (v. t.)
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
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Flag (v. t.)
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
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Flag (n.)
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
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Flag (n.)
A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
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Flag (n.)
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
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Flag (n.)
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
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Flag (n.)
The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
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Flag (v. t.)
To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
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Flag (v. t.)
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
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Flag (n.)
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
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Flag (v. t.)
To furnish or deck out with flags.
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Flag (n.)
A flat stone used for paving.
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Flag (n.)
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
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Flag (v. t.)
To lay with flags of flat stones.