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his residence at York; some men have no and when fluid or melted, make a greasy been the original form = strike aghast. ] fixed opinions.-2. To make fast; to fasten; stain on paper, which is permanent. - Fixed To astonish; to strike with wonder; to conto attach firnily; as, to fix a cord or line to stars, such stars as always retain the same found; as, he was quite flabbergasted. Sir a hook.

apparent position and distance with respect F. Head. (Colloq.) Whose faith has centre everywhere,

to each other, and are thus distinguished Flabbergastation (flab'ér-gast-ā"shon), n. Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson.

from planets and comets, which are revoly- The act of flabbergasting or striking with 3. To direct steadily, as the eye, the mind, ing bodies.

wonder; the state of being flabbergasted or the attention, &c., without allowing it to Fixedly (fiks'ed-li), adv. Firmly; in a settled confounded. (Colloq. and humorous.j wander; to fasten; as, the gentleman fixed or established manner; steadfastly.

We scarcely remember to have ever seen any re. his eyes on the speaker.-4. To make solid; Fixedness (fiks'ed-nes), n. 1. A state of spectable party in a greater state of flabbergasta. to congeal; to deprive of volatility.–5. To being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfast- tion.

Punch, transfix; to pierce. (Rare.]

ness; as, a jixedness in religion or politics: Flabbily (flab'bi-li), adv. In a flabby manA bow of steel shall fix his trembling thighs. Sandys. fixedness of opinion on any subject. -2. The 6. To stop or keep from moving.–7. In

state of a body which resists evaporation or Flabbiness (flab'bi-nes), n. [See FLABBY.] popular use, in America, to put in order; to volatilization by heat; firm coherence of State of being flabby; a soft, flexible state prepare; to arrange or manage; to adjust; parts; as, the fixedness of gold.

of a substance, which renders it easily mov

able and yielding to pressure. to set or place in the manner desired or Fixidityt (fiks-id'i-ti), n. Fixedness. most suitable; as, to fix clothes or dress; to

Bodies mingled by the fire are differing as to fixid. Flabby (flab'bi), a. [Comp. G. flabbe, Sw.flabb, fix the furniture of a room. Thus, to fix the

ity and volatility

Boyle. Dan. flab, hanging lips; but also W. llib, hair, the table, the fire, &c., is to dress the Fixing (fiks'ing), n. 1. The act of one who a soft, lank, limber state; Ilipa, flapping, hair, lay the table, make up the fire, and so

fixes; consolidation; establishment; the pro- flaccid, lank. Flabby and flap appear to be on.

cess by which anything is fixed. -2. In mach. from the same root.] Soft; yielding to the Dampier has fix apparently in the New England

a piece of cast-iron adapted to carry pillow- touch and easily moved or shaken: easily sense. We went ashore and dried our cloaths, blocks and the like. When it is built into bent; hanging loose by its own weight; cleaned our guns, dried our ammunition, and fixt a wall it is called a wall-fixing or wall-box; flaccid; as, flabby flesh. ourselves against our enemies if we should be at. tacked.'

Flabel (fla'bel), n. [L. flabellum, a fan.) A when attached to a wall by bolts it is a G. P. Marsh. plate-fixing. There are also beam fixing Flabellaria (fla-bel-lā'ri-a), n. (L. flabellum.

fan. See FLABELLUM. -To fix a picture, in photog. to give per- as when wheels are intended to work at the manence to the image on a negative or posi

position where the fixing is situated; and a fan.) 1. A genus of fossil palms with flative, by removal of the superfluous salts when the fixing is adapted to them, it is

belliform leaves, but otherwise of uncertain of silver, which would otherwise gradually

then commonly called a wheel- fixing.- affinities. They occur in secondary and blacken and destroy the image. This is

3. Establishment in life; the act of setting tertiary rocks. - 2. The fan-coral, a genus usually done by means of hyposulphite of

up in housekeeping, or of furnishing a of Actinozoa belonging to the order Alcyonsoda. house.

aria, the coralline structures of which occur Fix (fiks), v. i. 1. To rest; to settle or remain

If Patty would have remained at the castle, she in large foliaceous expansions, formed of a permanently; to cease from wandering. miglıt have had the command of all; or if she would

corneous axis enveloped in a calcareous Your kindness banishes your fear, have gone anywhere else, he would have paid for

crust. Resolved to fix for ever here. Waller.

her fixing, let the cost be what it would.
The Maid of the Mill,

Flabellate (fla-bel'lāt), a. In bot. fan2. To become firm, so as to resist volatiliza4. pl. [United States.) Arrangements; em

shaped. tion.-3. To cease to flow or be fluid; to

bellishments; trimmings; garnishings of Flabellation (Ala-bel-lā'shon), n. (Fr., from L. congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. The quicksilver will Fixity (fiks'i-ti), n. any kind.

flabellum, a fan.) In surg. the act of keepState of being fixed;

ing fractured limbs, as well as the dressings fix and run no more.' Bacon. --To fix on, fixed character; fixedness; stability; as, fixity

stirrounding them, cool by the use of a fan to settle the opinion or resolution on any

or similar means. of tenure. thing; to determine on; as, the contracting are not the sun and fixed stars great earths vehe. Flabelliform (fla-belli-form), a. (L. flabel. parties have fixed on certain leading points. mently hot, .. whose parts are kept from fuming lum, a fan, and forma, form.) In bot. fanFix (fiks), n. A condition; predicament; dif- away not only by their fixity, but also by the vast shaped ficulty: dilemma. - To be in a fix, to be in a

weight and density, of the atmospheres incumbent Flabellum (fla-bellum ), n. [L] A fan; upon them?

Sir I. Newton. difficulty or dilemma.

specifically, an ecclesiastical fan formed of Fixable (fiks'a-bl), a. That may be fixed, Fixture (Aks'tūr), n. 1. Fixedness; firmestablished, or rendered firm.

feathers, ivory, metal, or other material, anness; stable state. • The firm fixture of thy

ciently used to drive away flies from the cha

foot.' Fixation (fiks'ā-shon), n. 1. The act of fix

Shak.-2. Anything placed in a firm

lice during the eucharist. Such fans are a ing. or fixed position; something fixed and im

mark of distinction in the Church of Rome, if the fewness of the requisite data is a beauty

movable; specifically, (a) that which is fixed in the first fixation of a theory, the multitude of to a building; any appendage or part of the

and are carried before the pope and certain observations to which it applies is its excellence

other dignitaries on state occasions. Fig. 1 furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as when it is established. Whewell. by nails, screws, &c. In law, things of an

represents the head of one of the two fans 2. State of being firm or stable; stability; firm- accessory character annexed to houses or

composed of ostrich and peacocks' feathers, ness; steadiness. An unalterable fixation lands, which, immediately on annexation, of resolution.' Killingbeck.-3. Residence become part of the realty. Thus, as between in a certain place, or a place of residence. landlord and tenant, things to be fixtures (Rare.)

must be let into the soil; a barn, built on a To light, created in the first day, God gave no

frame not let into the earth, is not a fixture. certain place or fixation.

Raleigh. Erections for the purposes of trade, as fur4. That firm state of a body in which it resists naces, coppers, brewing vessels, machinery evaporation or volatilization by heat; as,

in breweries, collieries, and the like, are not the fixation of gold or other metals.-5. The fixtures, if they can be removed without act or process of ceasing to be fluid and material injury to the property. The claims becoming firm; state of being fixed; spe

of a trading tenant are niore favourably recifically, in chem. that process by which a

garded than those of ordinary tenants. (b) A gaseous body becomes fixed or solid on unit- person who has been so long in the same ing with a solid body.

place, as a resident or occupant of a situFixative (fiks'a-tiv), n. Anything which ation, that it is difficult to remove him; as, serves to render fixed or stable, as a mor

in former days servants frequently became dant with reference to colours,

fixtures in families. Fixature (fiks'a-tūr), n. A gummy com

Fixure (fiks’ūr), n. Position; stable condiposition for the hair. See BANDOLINE.

tion; firmness. (Rare.) Fixe. For Fixed. Chaucer.

Rend and deracinate Fixed (fikst), pp. or a. Settled; established;

The unity and married calm of states

Shak. firm; fast; stable.

Quite from their fixure.

1, Papal Flabellum.-Rock's Church of our Fathers. The gradual establishment of law by the consoli.

Fiz, Fizz (fiz), n. [Imitative.] 1. A hissing 2, Flabellum.-Sommerard's Arts du Moyen Age. dation of custom is the formation of something fixed

sound; as, the fizz of a fly.-2. Anything light in the midst of things that are changing

and frothy; specifically, champagne, from which are carried upon long staves on each

Herbert Spencer. the sound it makes when uncorked. (Slang. ) side of the pope whenever he is borne -Fired air, the old name of carbonic acid. Fizgig (fiz'gig), n. See FISHGIG

throned in state to and from the altar on See under CARBONIC. -- Fixed alkalies, pot- Fizgig fiz'gig), n. (Fiz, anything light, and high festivals. Fig. 2 represents the liturash, soda, and lithia, in contradistinction to gig, a top.) 1. A gadding, flirting girl. – gical flabellum of the abbey of Tournus, ammonia, which is termed volatile alkali. 2. A firework, made of damp powder, which described by Du Sommerard.' It is circular Fixed ainmunition, ammunition consisting gives a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited. in form when expanded, and is ornamented of the powder and ball inclosed together in Fizzle (fiz'l), n. [Onomatopoetic; in the first with the figures of saints. Latin verses are a wrapper or case, ready for insertion in signification probably from the fizzing sound inscribed on three concentric bands on the the bore of the firearm. – Fixed bodies are made by a combustible which does not ex. fan, describing its use. those which bear a high heat without eva- plode instantaneously like gunpowder, but Flabergast, v.t. See FLABBERGAST. poration or volatilization.- Fixed oils, oils hangs fire.) 1. A failure or abortive effort. Flabile (flab'il), a. (From L. flo, to blow.) obtained by simple pressure,and not readily, 2. Champagne. (Colloq. ]

Subject to be blown about. nor without decomposition, volatilized : so Fizz, Fizzle (fiz, fiz'l), v. i. 1. To make a hiss- Flaccid (flak'sid), a. (L. flaccidus, from called in distinction from volatile oils. ing sound.

flaccus, flabby. Comp. W. llac, slack, loose, They are compounds of glycerin and certain

O rare! to see thee fist and freath

sickly; Ir. fluich, flabby.) Soft and weak; organic acids. Such compounds are exclu

I th' lugget caup. Burns.

limber; lax; drooping; hanging down by its sively natural products, not having been as 2. To fail of success in an undertaking. own weight; yielding to pressure for want yet formed artificially. Among animals they Fl. Abbreviation for Florin.

of firmness and stiffness; flabby; as, a flaccid occur chiefly in the cellular membrane; Flabbergast, Flabergast (flab'er-gast), v.t. muscle; flaccid flesh. among plants, in the seeds, capsules, or [Perhaps from flabber, connected with flap,

Religious profession ... has become flaccit. pulp surrounding the seed, very seldom in meaning to strike, and root of aghast. Or

Is. Taylor. the root. They are generally inodorous, flabagast, which is also found, may have Flaccidity. See FLACCIDNESS.

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Flaccidly (flak'sid-li), adv. In a flaccid flag of Great Britain is the royal standard, lash-like appendage exhibited by many in

which is only to be hoisted when the sov- fusoria, which are therefore said to be slaFlaccidness, Flaccidity (flak'sid-nes, flak- ereign or one of the royal family is on board gellate; an appendage to the legs of some sid'i-ti), n. The state of being flaccid; laxity; the vessel; the second flag is that of the an- crustacea, having some resemblance to a limberness; want of firmness or stiffness. chor on a red ground, which characterizes the whip. Flacker (flak'er), v.i. (Akin to flicker, flutter, lord high-admiral, or lords-commissioners of Flageolet (fla'jel-et), n. (Fr. flageolet, dim. G. flackeren, to flutter.) To flutter, as a bird. the admiralty; and the third is theunion flag. of o. Fr. flajol, Pr. plaujol, flautol, which are [Local. 1

in which the crosses of St. George, St. An- dims.of L. L. flauta, flautus, flute. See FLUTE.) Flacket (flak'et), n. (From O.Fr. flasquet, a drew, and St. Patrick are blended. This flag A small wind instrument of music, played little flask, dim. of flasque, a flask.) A bottle is appropriated to the admiral of the fleet. on by means of a mouth-piece inserted in a in the form of a barrel.

(See ADMIRAL.) There are also small flags bulb. The tone produced is similar to that And Isai toke an asse laden with breade, and a used in the navy for signals or telegraphs.- of the piccolo, but is softer in quality, and flacket of wine, and a kydde, and sent them by David

Black flag, a flag of a black colour displayed the range is two octaves. The double flahis sonne unto Saule. Breeches Bible, i Sam, xvi. 20.

on a piratical vessel as a sign that no mercy geolet consists of two instruments united Flacourtiaceæ (fla-kort’i-" sē-e), n. pl. will be shown to the vanquished. - Red flag, by one mouth-piece, and producing double [ After the French botanist Étienne Fla

a flag of a red colour displayed as a token notes. - Flageolet tones, in music, the name court. ) A small nat. order of equatorial of defiance to battle. - White flag, a flag of given to those harmonic tones on the violin, shrubs or small trees. One species, Fla- truce. - Flag of truce, a white flag displayed violoncello, and other stringed instruments, courtia Ramontchi, is the Madagascar plum. as an invitation to the enemy to confer, and produced by the finger lightly touching the Flaff (flaf), v.i. (Comp. flutt', and also flap. ) in the meantime as a notification that the string on the exact part which generates To flutter. 'A thousand flani ng flags.' Syl

fighting shall cease. To strike or lower the the harmony, and not by pressing the string vester, Du Bartas. [Obsolete and Scotch.] flag, to pull it down upon the cap in token down to the finger-board. An' if the wives an' dirty brats

of respect or submission, or, in an engage- Flag-feather (flag'feth-er), n. A feather Een thigger at your doors an' yetts,

ment, of surrender. - To hang out the white of a bird's wing next to the body. Flufin' wi' duds.

Burns.

flag, to ask quarter, or in some cases to Flagginess (flag'i-nes), n. Quality of being Flag (flag), v.i. pret. & pp. flagged; ppr. manifest a friendly design. - To hang the Alagyy; laxity; limberness; want of tension. flagging. [ Connected with Icel. flaka, to

flay half mast high, to raise a flag half way Flagging (flag'ing), n. 1. The act of laying droop, to hang loosely, G. flacken, to become

to the top of the mast or staff, as a token or with flagstones. ----2. Flagstones, collectively; slow or languid, O.D. flaggeren, to be loose. signal of mourning.

a pavement or side walk of flagstones. The original form in English was flack, and Flag-bearer (flag bár-ér), n. One who bears Flaggingly (flag'ing-li), adv. In a flagging there are other connected E. forms such as a flag; a standard-bearer.

manner; wearily. flacker, flicker.] 1. To hang loose without Flagelet (fla'jel-et), n. Same as Flageolet. Flaggy (flag'i), a. (Akin to flag, to hang stiffness; to bend down as flexible bodies; to Flagella, n. pl. See FLAGELLUM. be loose and yielding. With their drowsy, Flagellant (fla'jel-lant), n.

loose.] i Weak; flexible; limber; not stiff.

(L. flagellans, His flaggy winges, when forth he did display, slow, and flagging wings.' Shak. ppr. of flagello, to flog. See FLAGELLATE.] Were like two sayles.

Spenser The slack sail As loose it flagged around the mast. Moore.

2. Weak in taste; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. 2. To grow spiritless or dejected; to droop;

Flaggy (flag'i), a. Abounding in or resem

bling the plants called flags. to grow languid; as, the spirits flag.

Flagitious (fla-ji'shus), a. (L. flagitiosus, The voice, fainting, flagged upon its passage. Longfellow.

from flagitium, burning desire, heat of pas3. To grow stale or vapid; to lose interest

sion, from flagito, to demand hotly, fiercely,

or violently, from the root flag, whence or relish.

flagro, to burn.) 1. Deeply criminal; grossly The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Stuift.

wicked; villanous; atrocious; scandalous; Syn. To droop, decline, fail, languish, pine,

heinous; flagrant; as, a flagitious action or sink, succumb.

crime. -2. Guilty of enormous crimes; proFlag (flag), v. t. 1. To let fall so as to hang

fligate; corrupt; abandoned; wicked; as, a loose; to suffer to droop; as, to flag the

Higitious person. Pope.-3. Marked or charwings. -2. To make feeble; to enervate; to

acterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, exhaust.

flagitious times. Nothing so flags the spirits ... as intense studies.

Flagitiously (fla-ji'shus-li), adv. With exEchard,

treme wickedness; atrociously; grossly. Flag (flag), n. [Connected with Sw. flaga,

A sentence so flagitiously unjust. Maca crack or flaw, flaga sig, to scale off, Icel.

aulay. flaga, to cut turfs, probably allied to G.

Flagitiousness (fla-ji'shus-nes), n. The flach, flat, L.G. Hage, a flat marshy place,

condition or quality of being flagitious; ex. and Gr. plaz, a tablet.] A flat stone used Flagellant, from Amman's Habitus Rom. Ecclesiæ. treme wickedness; villany. for paving

Flag-lieutenant (flagʻlef-ten-ant), n. Naut. Flag (flag), v. t. pret. & pp. flagged; ppr. flag. One who whips himself in religious dis- the immediate attendant on an admiral, ging. To lay with flags or flat stones. cipline; specifically, one of a fanatical sect who performs such duties for him as an

The sides and floor were all flagged with excellent founded in Italy A.D. 1260, who maintained aide-de-camp performs for a general in the marble.

Sandys. that flagellation was of equal virtue with army, communicating his orders to the ships Flag (flag), n. [Connected with flag, n. above, baptism and the sacrament. They walked under his command either personally or by from the large blades or leaves. In most in procession with shoulders bare, and signal. European languages the name of this plant whipped themselves till the blood ran down Flagman (flagʻman), n. One who makes is taken from a sword.) A popular name their bodies, to obtain the mercy of God signals with flags. for many endogenous plants with sword- and appease his wrath against the vices of Flag-officer (flag'of-fis-ér), n. A general disshaped leaves, mostly growing in moist

tinguishing title for an admiral, vice-adsituations; but sometimes particularly ap- Flagellate (fla'jel-lát), v. t. [L. flagello, fla- miral, and rear-admiral; the commander of propriated to Iris pseud-acorus, nat. order gellatum, to beat or whip, from flagellum, a a squadron. Iridaceæ; also termed Flower de lis or whip, scourge, dim. of flagrum, a whip, a Flagon (flag'on), n. [Fr. flacon, flascon, from Flower de luce. (See IRIS.) It has sword- scourge.) To whip; to scourge.

O. Fr. flasche, a great leathern bottle. See shaped leaves and yellow flowers, grows in Flagellate (fla'jel-lát), a. In nat. hist. FLASK.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used marshy places, and by the sides of streams furnished with flagella, or long, narrow, for holding and conveying liquors. 'A and lakes. The stout creeping rootstock lash-like appendages, as certain infusoria. trencher of mutton chops and a flagon of has been recommended for alleviating the Flagellation (fla-jel-lā'shon), n. A beating ale.' Macaulay. toothache, and is used for dyeing black in or whipping; a flogging; the discipline of Flagrancet (Alå'grans), n. Flagrancy. the Hebrides. The leaves make excellent the scourge. thatch, and are also employed for making Flagellator (fla' jel-lāt-er), n. One who

They bring to him a woman taken in the flagrance of her adultery.

Bp. Hall, bottoms to chairs.

whips or scourges. Flag (tlag), n. (Not found in A. Sax Comp. Flagelliform (Ma-jel’li-form), a. (L. flagelli- Flagrancy (flā'gran-si), n. (See FLAGRANT.] G. flagge, a naval banner; D. vlag, Icel. formis, from flagellum, a whip, and forma,

1. The quality of being flagrant; heinousflagg, Sw. flagg, flagga, Dan. flag, banner. form.) In bot. and zool. long, narrow, and

ness; enormity.-2.1 A burning; great heat; It is no doubt connected with such words

inflammation flexible, like the thong of a whip. as G. fliegen, A. Sax. fleôgan, to fly, to float Flagellum (fla-jellum), n. pl. Flagella (fla

Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon. in the air; also flag, to hang loose.) An jella). [L., a whip. ] "1. In bot. a runner; Flagrant (flā'grant), a. [L. flagrans, flaensign or colours; a cloth on which certain

grantis, ppr. of slagro, to burn,j i. Burning: figures are usually painted or wrought,

blazing; hence, ardent; eager. 'Flagrant borne on a staff, and usually employed to

desires.' Hooker. distinguish one company, party, or nation

Entering an inn, he took his humble seat ality from another; a standard on which are

With other travellers round the crackling hearth, certain emblems expressive of nationality,

Where heath and cistus gave their flagrant fame.

Southe. party, or opinion. In the army a flag is a banner by which one regiment is distin

2. Glowing; red; flushed. guished from another. In the navy, flags

See Sappho, at her toilet's greasy task, borne on the masts of vessels not only desig

Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask. Pope. nate the country to which they belong, but

3. Raging; actually in execution or perthey are made to denote the quality of the

formance. officer by whom a ship is commanded. Thus

A war with the most powerful of the native tribes in the British navy, an admiral's flag is dis- Strawberry Plant (Fragaria vesca). a, Flagellum.

was flagrant

Palfrey. played at the maintop-gallant-mast-head; a

4. Flaming into notice; glaring; notorious; vice-admiral's at the foretop-gallant-mast- a weak, creeping branch sent out from the enormous; as, a flagrant crime. head, and a rear-admiral's at the mizzen-top- bottom of the stem, and giving off at its Flagrantly (fla'grant-li), adv. In a flagrant gallant-mast-head. In the navy the supreme extremity leaves and roots--2. In zool. the manner; ardently; notoriously.

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Flagratet (flä'grāt), v. t. [L. flagro, flagra- Flambe, t n. (O. Fr.] A flame; a flambeau. Flame-bearer (flám'bár-ér), n. 1. One who tum. See FLAGRANT.) To burn. Chaucer.

bears flame or light. -2. The name given to Flagrationt (fla-grā'shon), n. A conflagra- Flambeau (flambo), n. [Fr., from L. flamma, the members of a genus of humming-birds, tion.

a blazing fire, a blaze.) A flaming torch; a from their being furnished with a tuft of Flag-share (flag'shăr), n. Naut. the ad- light made of thick wicks covered with wax fiery crimson-coloured feathers round the miral's share (one-eighth) in all captures or other inflammable material, and used in neck like a gorget. The little flame-bearer made by any vessels within the limits of his the streets at night at illuminations and in (Selasphorus scintilla) inhabits the inner command, even if under the orders of an- processions.

side of the extinct volcano Chiriqui, in other admiral.

Flamboyant(flam-boi'ant), a. (Fr., flaming. ] Veragua, about 9000 feet above the level Flagship (flag' ship), n. The ship which A term applied to that style of Gothic archi

of the sea

It measures only 24 inches in bears the flag-officer and on which his flag tecture in France which was contemporary length. There are various other

species, all is displayed

with the Perpendicular style in Britain. Its tropical American. Flagside (flag'sid), n. That side of a split

Flame-colour (flâm'kul-ér), n. Bright colour, haddock which is free from bone. (Scotch.)

as that of flame. Flagstaff (flag'staf), n. A pole or staff on

Flame-coloured (Mām'kul-érd), a. Of the which a flag is displayed.

colour of flame; of a bright yellow colour. Flagstone (flag'ston), n. 1. Any fissile sand

Flame-coloured stockings.' Shak stone which splits up into flags.—2. A flat

Flame-eyed (flam'id), a. Having eyes like stone used in paving.

a flame; having bright shining eyes. Flagworm (flag'wérm), n. A worm or grub

Flameless (flâm'les), a. Destitute of flame. found among flags and sedge.

Flamelet (tām'let), n. A little flame. "The Flaie,+ pret. of fly. Flew. Chaucer.

flamelets flapped and flickered.' Longfellow. Flail (flål), n. (O. Fr. flael, flaiel, flaial, from

Flamen (fla'men), n. [L., said to have been L. flagellum, a whip or scourge, whence also

so called from the fillet, filum, which was D. vlegel, G. Megel.] l. instrumen for

worn around the

though ott is thrashing or beating grain from the ear, con

inclined to connect the name with flamma, sisting of the hand-staff, which is held in the

flame.! In Rom. antiq. the name given to hand, the swiple, which strikes the corn, and

any priest devoted to the service of one parthe middle band, which connects the hand

ticular deity. Originally there were three staff and swiple, and which may be a thong of

priests so called: the Flamen Dialis, conseleather, a hempen rope, or a rope of straw.

crated to Jupiter; Flamen Martialis, sacred 2. An ancient military weapon resembling

to Mars; and Flamen Quirinalis, who superthe common flail, but having the striking

intended the rites of Quirinus or Romulus; part strengthened with a coating of iron

but the number was ultimately increase il and armed with rows of spikes.

to fifteen, the original three, however, re. Flailyt (fläl'i), a. Acting like flails. Vicars.

taining priority in point of rank, being styled Flaine, pp. of flay. Flayed. Chaucer.

Majores, and elected from among the patriFlair (flar), v.i. Same as Flare.

cians, while the other twelve, called Minores, Flaire (flar), n. See FIRE-FLAIRE.

were elected from the plebeians. P'lake (flak), n. [ Allied to Icel. flakna, to

Flamineous (fla-min'ê-us), a. Pertaining to fake off, flyka, a flake, a rag; E. flag, a stone

a flamen; flaminical. for paving, and flaw; Sw. flaga, á flake, a

Flaming (flām'ing), a. 1. Of a bright, gaudy crack or flaw.) 1. A loose filmy or scale-like

Flamboyant Window, Church of St. Ouen, Rouen. colour, as bright red or bright yellow. -mass of anything; a small flat particle of

2. Tending to excite; violent; vehement; as, any matter loosely held together; a flock; a chief characteristic is a wavy flame-like

a flaming harangue. layer; a scale; as, a flake of flesh or tallow;

tracery in the windows; whence the name. Flamingly (flām'ing-li), adv. Most brightly; a rlake of snow. Little flakes of scurf.' Ad Flame (flām), n. [Fr. flamme, L. Mamma,

with great show or vehemence. dison. “Great flakes of ice encompassing

flagma, from the root flag, whence flagro, to Flamingo (fla-ming'go), n. (Sp. and Pg. fla: our boat.' Evelyn. 'Flakes of foam.' Ten- burn, to blaze; the root is seen also in Gr. menco, from L. flamma, flame, from its red wyson.—2. A collection or little particle of phlego, to burn.] 1. A blaze; burning vapour; colour.) A bird of the genus Phænicopterus, fire, or of combustible matter on fire, sepa

vapour in combustion; or according to mo- formerly placed in the order Grallatores, rated and flying off.

dern chemistry, hydrogen or any inflam- but now generally ranked among the NataAnd from this wide devouring oven sent mable gas in a state of visible combustion.

tores or Palmipedes, and constituting a Aflake of fire.

Spenser.

Flame is attended with great heat, and family Phonicopteridæ, allied to the Ana

sometimes with the evolution of much light; 3. A sort of carnations of two colours only,

tida. Its body is smaller than that of the but the temperature may be intense when having large stripes going through the

stork, but owing to the great length of the leaves.

the light is feeble, as is the case with the neck and legs it stands from 5 to 6 feet

flame of burning hydrogen gas. The flame Flake (flāk), n. (Icel. fleki, a flake or hurdle,

high. The beak is naked, lamellate at the of a candle may be divided into three zones: flækja, to twist or entangle, G. flechten, to

edges, and bent as if broken; the feet are an inner zone containing chiefly unburned twist or plait.] 1. In Scotland, á hurdle or

palmated and four-toed. The common flagas, another zone containing partially burned portable framework of boards or bars for

mingo (P. ruber) occurs abundantly in vari. gas, and an outer zone where the gas is comfencing. -2. Naut. a small stage hung over

ous parts of Southern Europe. This bird repletely consumed by combination with the a ship's side, to calk or repair any breach.

sembles the heron in shape, but is entirely oxygen of the air. The luminosity of flame 3. In Massachusetts, a platform or stage of

scarlet, except the quill-feathers, which are depends upon the presence of solid matter hurdles or small sticks interwoven together,

jet black. The tongue is fleshy, and one of or of dense gaseous products of combustion. and supported by stanchions for drying cod

the extravagances of the Romans during the 2. Fire in general. fish, &c.

later period of the empire was to have dishes

Jove Prometheus' theft allow : Flake (flāk), v.t. pret. & pp. flaked; ppr.

composed solely of flamingoes' tongues. The flames he once stole from thee, grant him now. flaking. To form into flakes.

Cowley.

Flaminical (fla-min'ik-al), a. Pertaining to Flake (flák), v.i. To break or separate in 3. Heat of passion; tumult; combustion;

a Roman flamen. 'Superstitious copes and layers; to peel or scale off.

blaze; violent contention; passionate excite.

flaminical vestures.' Milton. Flake-white (flak'whit), n. In painting, (a) ment or strife; as, one jealous tattling mis- Flammability (flam'a-bil”i-ti), n. The quathe purest white-lead, in the form of scales chief-maker will set a whole village in a

lity of being flammable; inflammability. or plates, sometimes gray on the surface. flame; the flames of war.

Flammable (flam'a-bl), a. Capable of being When levigated, it is called 'body-white.' While the West was thus rising to confront the

kindled into flame. (6) Basic nitrate of bismuth, or pearl-white. king, the North was all in a flame behind him.

Flammation (flam-a'shon), n. The act of Flakiness (flak'i-nes), n. The state of being

Macaulay.

setting on flame.

4. Ardour of temper or imagination; bright Flammeoust (flam'ē-us), a. Pertaining to flaky.

ness of fancy; vigour of thought. Flaky (flák'i), a. Consisting of flakes or

or consisting of flame; like flame. locks; consisting of small loose masses; con

Great are their faults, and glorious is their flame. This flammeous light is not over all the body. ll'aller

Sir T. Browne. sisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers;

5. Ardour of inclination; warmth of affeclying in flakes or layers; flake-like.

Flammiferous(flam-if'er-us), a. (L. flamina, tion; the passion of love; ardent love.

flame, and fero, to bring.) Producing flame. Diamonds themselves have a grain or a flaky con- Smit with the love of kindred arts we came, Flammivomous (fiam iv'om-us), a. (L. texture. Boyle. And met congenial, mingling flame with flame.

flamma, flame, and voino, to vomit.] Vomit

Pope. Flam (flam), n. (Probably connected with

Drink ye to her that each loves best,

ing flames, as a volcano. G. flimmen, to gleam, flammern, Nämmern, And if you nurse a flame

Flamy (flam’i), a. Pertaining to, consisting to glitter. See FLIM-FLAM! A freak or

That's told but to her mutual breast,

of, or like flame. 'Flamy breaths.' Sir P. whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory

We will not ask her name. Campbell

Sidney. Flamy matter.' Васот. pretext; deception; delusion. 6. One beloved; as, she was my first flame.

A flamy redness will overspread the heavens. Lies immortalized and consigned over as a per[Colloq.)

Sir T. Herbert. petual abuse and flam upon posterity. South. Flame (flām), o.t. To inflame; to excite. Flam'd with zeal of vengeance.' Spenser.

Flan (flan), n. [Scotch. ) Flam (flam), v. t. pret. & pp. flammed; ppr. Flame (flām), v.i. pret. & pp. flamed; ppr.

1. A sudden gust of wind Namming. "To deceive with' falsehood; to

from the land; a flaw. flaming. 1. To blaze; to burn as gas emitimpose upon; to delude. "God is not to be

2. Smoke driven down the ted from bodies in combustion.--2. To shine flammed off with lies.' South.

chimney by gusts of wind. like burning gas or any other luminous body. Flamant (flām'ant), a. (Fr. flambant, flam*In flaming yellow bright.' Prior.

Flan (flan), v.t. In arch. to ing, blazing.) In her. flaming; burning, as

The crown

splay or bevel internally, a firebrand, flambeau, &c. And both the wings are made of gold, and flame

as a window-jamb. Flamb, Flame (flam, fläm), v.t. To baste, At sunrise, till the people in far fields

Flanch (flanch), n. [Prov. Behold it.

Tennyson.

Flanches. as meat. (Scotch.)

E. flanch, a projection. See 3. To break out in violence of passion.

FLANK.) 1. A flange (which Undauntedly brandishing the iron ladle, with which she had just been flambing (Anglicé basting) the Lascivious fires, should such fame in you

see). --2. In her. an ordinary formed on roast of inutton.

Sir W. Scott.
As I must ne'er believe.

Beau & FI. each side of the shield by the segment of FLANCH

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it is open.

a circular superficies, drawn from the corner Flankert (flangk'ér), v.i. To come on side

When the sun begins to fling

Vilton. of the chief to the base point. In this sense ways.

His flaring beams. written also Flanque.

Where sharp winds do rather flanker than blow 3. To be exposed to too much light. Flanch (flanch), v.i. To flange (which see). fully opposite upon our plantations, they thrive best.

I cannot stay

Evelyn. Flanconade, Flanconnade (tlang-kon-ad'),

Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior. Flank-file (flangk'fil), n. Milit. one of the n. (Fr.) In fencing, a thrust in the tank first file on the right and the last on the left

4. To open or spread outward.-5. Vaut, to or side.

incline or hang over from a perpendicular of a battalion, division, &c. Flanders-brick (flan'dérz-brik), n. A soft

line, as the sides of a ship.-i'o flare up, to Flannel (Alan'nel), n. (O. E, and Sc. Mannen; brick used for cleaning knives, W. golanen, from gwlan, wool. Flannel

become suddenly angry or excited; to fly Flaneur (fla-nér), n. [Fr., from finer, to

into a passion. was originally a Welsh manufacture.) 1. A saunter about.) A lounger; a gossiper.

Flare (tär), v.t. To cause to burn with a

soft nappy woollen cloth of loose texture, — Flang (flang). Old English and Scotch pret. 2. Old cant term for hot gin and beer sea

tlaring flame; hence, to display glaringly; to of the verb sling. soned with nutmeg, sugar, &c.

exhibit in an ostentatious manner. (Rare.) Flang (flag), T. In mining, a two-pointed 'Flannelled (Han'neld), a. Covered with or One mortal, one nation or generation of mortals, pick.

may flare a flambeau, and another twinkle a taper. Flange (flani), n. (A form of flank (which Flannen (tlan'en), n. wrapped in Hannel.

Sir Il", Hamlion.

Flannel. see). ) A projecting eilge, rim, or rib on

(Obsolete Flare (flār), n. An unsteady broad offensive anı Scotch.)

light. any object, as the rims by which cast

Flannen (flan'en), a. Made of flannel. [Ob- Flare (flār), n. A flake or leaf of lard. [P10iron pipes are connected together, or the solete and Scotch.)

vincial.) projecting pieces on the tires of the wheels of railway-carriages to keep them on the

In flannen robes the coughing ghost does walk. Flare-up (flār’up), n. A sudden quarrel or

Dryden. rails. ---Port-lange, in ship-building, a piece Flanning (flan'ing), n.

angry argument; as, we had a regular flare

In arch. the interof timber fastened over a port to prevent

up. (Vulgar and colloq.) nal splay or bevel of a window-jamb. water or dirt from entering the port when Flanque (flank), 1..

Flaringly (tlār'ing-li), adv. Flutteringly; In her, see FLANCH, 2.

showily. Flant (flant), v.i. Same as Flaunt. Flange (flanj), v.t. pret. & pp flanged; ppr. Flap (tlap), n.

Flash (flash), n. (Origin and connections (Probably onomatopoetic,

doubtful flanging. To furnish with a fange; to make

May be an onomatopoetic word, being imitative of a blow with a pliant flat a flange on.

and expressive of a sudden outburst of any. surface. Comp. flabby.) 1. Anything broad Flange (tlanj), v. i. To be bent into a flange;

thing, especially of flame. See also, as reand flexible that hangs loose or is attached to take the form of a flange.

gards derivation in sense 8. extract under by one end or side and easily moved; as, the FLASH, a.) 1. A sudden burst of light; a Flange-joint (tlanj'joint), n. A joint in

Map of a garment; the map of the ear; the pipes, &c., made by two flanges bolted to

flood of light instantaneously appearing and slap of a hat. 'Embroidered waistcoats with disappearing; a gleam; as, a flash of sungether.

large flaps.' Dickens. Flange-rail (flanj'rāl), n. A rail furnished

light Lightning flash.' Shak.

A cartilaginous flap on the opening of the larynx. What strikes the crown of tyrants down, with a flange on one side to prevent the

Sir T. Bronne.

And answers with its flash their frown? wheels of the locomotives running off the 2. The motion of anything broad and loose,

The sword. M. 7. Barry line.

or a stroke with it.-3. pl. A disease in the 2. A sudden burst of something regarded Flank (flangk), n. (Fr. and Pr. flanc, It. fianco,

lips of horses, in which they become blis- as resembling light in its effect, as wit, the flank, derived by some from L. Flaccus,

tered and swell on both sides. -Flap of a merriment, energy, passion, and the like; a flabby, with n inserted, being so named from

window-shutter, a leaf attached to a shutter short vivid vision or description; a short the absence of bone. Comp. G. die Weiche,

to increase its size when it is not sufficiently and brilliant burst; a momentary brightness the tank, from weich, soft. The Teut forms, broad to exclude the light.

or show; as, a flash of wit; a flash of joy or G. flanke, Sw. and Dan. slank, are from the Flap (flap), v. t. pret. & pp. flapped; ppr. flap

mirth Romance, but in Grimm's dictionary it is ping. 1. To beat with or as with a flap.

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, maintained that the word was originally

A savageness in unreclaimed blood. Shak. German (O.H.G. lancha, M.H. G. lanke), and Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope.

Where be ... your flashes of merriment that were that it passed into the Romance tongues 2. To move, as something broad or flap-like. wont to set the table on a roar?

Shak. and thence back again to the Teutonic. ) “The raven slapped his wing.' Tickell.-3. To His companions recollect no instance of premature 1. The fleshyor muscular part of the side of let fall the map of, as a hat.

wil, no striking sentinent, no flash of fancy. Il'iri. an animal, between the ribs and the hip: - Flap (flap), v. i. 1. To move as wings, or as 3. The time occupied by the passing of a 2. Milit. the side of an army, or of any divi- something broad or loose. * The slackened flash of light; a short transient state; a very sion of an arıny, as of a brigade, regiment, sail flaps.' Tennyson. 2. To fall like a brief period; an instant. or battalion; as, to attack an enemy in flank flap, as the brim of a hat or other broad The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flask. is to attack them on the side. thing; to have the flap fall.

Bircon.
When to right and left the front
He had an old black hat on that flapped.

4. A body of water driven by violence. Divided, and to either Nank retired. Milton.

Slate Trials. [Local.)-5. A little pool.-6. A preparation 3. In fort. that part of a bastion which Flapdragon (flap'dra-gon), n. 1. A play in

of capsicum, burnt sugar, &c., used for reaches from the curtain to the face; or any which the players snatch raisins out of

colouring brandly and rum, and giving them part of a work that defends another work burning brandy, and, extinguishing them a fictitious strength.-7. A sluice or lock on by a fire along the outside of its parapet. by closing the mouth, eat them.- 2. The a navigable river, just above a shoal, to See cut under BASTION. -- 4. In arch. the side thing eaten in playing flapdragon.

raise the water while craft are passing. of any building.--5. The straight part of the

Written also Flashe. -8. Cant language,

He . , . drinks candles' ends for flapdragons. tooth of a wheel which receives the impulse.

Shak.

such as is used by thieves, gipsies, &c. - All 6. pl. In furriery, a wrench or any other in- Flapdragon (flap'dra-gon), v.t. To swallow flash in the pan, all sound and fury, signijury in the back of a horse. at one gulp; to devour.

fying nothing, like the explosion of a gun Flank (flangk). u.t. (Fr. flanquer, Sp. flana

which ends with a flash in the lock-pan, the

To make an end of the ship, to see how the sea quear, to flank, to attack or defend the

fiapdragoned it.

Shak. gun itself hanging fire. ilank. ] 1. To border; to stand or be at the Flap-eared (flap'ērd), a. Having broad

Flash (flash), v.i. 1. To break forth, as a flank or side of; as, flanked with rocks. loose ears. À... beetle-headed, jlap-eared

sudden flood of light; to burst or open inStately colonnades are flanked with trees. Pitt.

stantly on the sight, as splendour. -- 2. To knare.' Shak.

burst or break forth with a flood of flame 2. Milit. to attack the side or flank of; to Flapjack (flap'jak), n. A sort of broad flat place troops so as to command or attack pancake; a fried cake; an apple-puff.

and light; as, the power flashed in the the lank of; to post so as to overlook or Flap-mouthed (flap'mouthd), a. Having

pan. --- 3. To burst suddenly forth like a

flame; to break forth into some new and command the flank of; to pass round or loose hanging lips.

dazzling condition or aspect; to burst out turn the flank of; to secure or guard the Flapper (tlap'er), n. One who or that which

violently. Flashed forth and into war.' flank of. flaps; in the following extract, one who

Tennyson. We cannot talk in rank and file, and flank and endeavours to make another remember-in rear our discourses with military allusions. allusion to the flappers mentioned in Gulli

They flash out sometimes into an irregular great.

Felton. Dr. John Scott.

ness of thought. Flank (flangk), v. i. 1. To border; to touch. ver's visit to Laputa, who were employed

Ev'ry hour That site, which flanks on the sea and haven, by the dreamy philosophers of that island He flashes into one gross crime or other

That sets us all at odds.

Shas needs no art to fortify it.

to flap them on the mouth and ears with an
Butler.
inflated bladder when their thoughts were

4. To come, appear, or pass suddenly, as 2. To be posted on the side. Flankard (tlangk'ard), n.

lightning; to penetrate, as lightning. Among sports

to be diverted from their speculations to men, one of the knobs or nuts in the flanks worldly affairs.

A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.

Tennyson. of a deer.

I write to you, by way of papper, to put you in mind of yourself.

Lord Chesterfield.

5. To throw off water in glittering spray or Flank-company (flangkökum-pa-ni), n. The

sheets.

A name extreme right or left company of a battalion. Flapper-skate (flap'er-skát), n.

The waves flash.' Thomson. а Flank-defence (flangk'de-fens), n.

Milit, a given to the Raia intermedia, a species of Flash (flash), v.t. 1. To emit or send forth in skate which is common in the Frith of

a sudden flash or flashes; to cause to appear line of fire parallel, or nearly so, to the

Forth. front of another work or position.

with sudden flame or light; as, his eyes

flashed fire. Flanker (flangk'ér), n. One who or that Flare (flar), v.i. pret. & pp. flared; ppr.

The chariot of paternal Deity. which flanks, as a skirmisher or body of flaring. (Comp. Dan. Magre, G. Nackern

Flashing thick'flames.

Nilton troops employed on the flank of an army to (freq. of flacken), to flicker, to flare. The

2. To convey by instantaneous communicareconnoitre or guaril a line of mareh, or a root meaning seems to be that of a waver

tion, as by a flame or spark; to cause to fortification projecting so as to command

ing, fluttering movement.] 1. To waver; to the side of an assailing body. flutter; to burn with an unsteady light, as

illuminate suddenly and startlingly, as if by

a burst of light; as, to flash a message along flame in a current of air; hence, to flutter They threw out flankers, and endeavoured to

the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. dislo:Ige their assailants,

II'. Iring
as such flame does; to flutter with gaudy

3. To strike up, as large bodies of water from show. Flanker (flangk'ér), v.t. 1. To defend by

With ribbons pendent fiaring 'bout her head.

the surface in gleaming sheets or spray; to flankers or lateral fortifications.

Shak. splash. The city is compassed with a thick wall flankered, 2. To shine out with sudden and unsteady

With his raging arms he rudely fiask'd and inoited about. Sir T. Herbert.

The waves about, and all his armour swept, light, lu-tre, or splendour; to give out a

That all the blood and filth away was wash'd. 2. To attack sideways. dazzling light.

Spenser

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4. To paint with showy colours; to trick up What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat. Milton. aft against the mast by the force of the in a showy manner. 3. In the fine arts, wanting relief or promi

wind. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. Brewer. nence of the figures. - 4. Ťasteless ; stale; Flat-bill (flat'bil), n. The name of a genus Flash (flash), a. 1. Vulgarly showy or gaudy; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit flat to the of fly-catching birds (Platyrhynchus), so as, a flash dress; a flash style.—2. Forged; taste.-5. Dull; unanimated; frigid; without called from the breadth and flatness of the counterfeit; as, flash notes. - Flash lan- point or spirit; that can give no relish or bill. guage, language spoken by felons, thieves, interest.

Flat-capt (flatkap), n. A cap with a low knaves, and vagabonds; cant; slang.

A great part of the work is to me very fat.

flat crown, at one time worn, with modificaIn a wild district of Derbyshire, between Maccles

Coleridge.

tions, by the men of England of all classes. field and Buxton, there is a village called Flash, sur.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

The flat-caps of the wealthier classes were

Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak. rounded by uninclosed land. The squatters on these

made of costly material and profusely decorcommons, with their wild gipsey habits, travelled 6. Brought to an end; brought to nought; about the neighbourhood from fair to fair, using a caused to collapse; ruined. slang dialect of their own. They were called the Flash men, and their dialect Flash talk; and it is

I feel ... my hopes all flat.

Milton. not difficult to see the stages by which the word 7. Not relieved, broken, or softened; perFlask has reached its present signification,

Isaac Taylor.

emptory; absolute; positive; downright; as,
Flasher (flash'ér), n. 1. One who or that he gave the petitioner a flat denial.
which flashes; specifically, a man of more

Thus repulsed, our final hope
Is flat despair.

Milton.
appearance of wit than reality. - 2. A
rower.-3. A name of the lesser butcher- I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's

flat.

Shak. bird. See FLUSHER. Flash-house (flash'hous), n. A house fre

8. In music, below the natural or the true quented by thieves, robbers, and knaves,

pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, inand in which stolen goods are received.

dicating a note half a tone below its natural;

minor. A fiat fifth is an interval of a fifth The excesses of that age remind us of the humours

diminished by a flat.-9. Not sharp or shrill; of a gang of footpads, revelling with their favourite beauties at a flash-house.

Macaulay.

not acute; as, a flat sound.-10. In gram. Flashily (flash'i-li), adv. With empty show;

applied to one of that division of consonants, with a sudden glare; without solidity of wit

in the enunciation of which voice (in conor thought.

tradistinction to breath) is heard: opposed Flashiness (flash'i-nes), n. The state of

to sharp; as, b, d, g, 2, v.-- 11. Lacking being flashy; ostentatious gaudiness; taste

briskness of commercial exchange or deallessness; vapidness; insipidity. ings; depressed; dull; as, the market was

Flat-caps of the Sixteenth Century. very flat. - Flat candlestick, a bedroom The same experiment may be made in artichokes and other seeds, when you would take away either

candlestick with a broad flat foot or dish. ated with jewels, gold and silver bands, their flashiness or bitterness.

Bacon. -Flat candle, the candle burned in such a feathers, &c., and were often placed jaunFlashing (flash'ing), n. 1. The act of creatcandlestick.

tily on the side of the head. From the fact ing an artificial flood at shallows in a river,

The idea of a girl with a really fine head of hair, that the citizens of London continued to by penning up the water either in the river having to do it by one flat candle and a few inches wear them long after they had fallen into

of looking-glass.

Dickens. itself or in side reservoirs. -- 2. In arch.

desuetude among other classes, the term pieces of lead, zinc, or other metal, used to Flat (flat), n. 1. A surface without relief or

flat-cap was applied to them in ridicule. protect the joining when a roof comes in prominences; a level or extended plain; a

Flat caps as proper are to city gowns contact with a wall, or when a chimney low tract of land.

As to armour helmets, or to kings their crowns. shaft or other object comes through a roof Envy is as the sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a

Dekker. and the like. The metal is let into a joint bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.

Wealthy flat-caps, that pay for their pleasure the Bacon. best of any men in Europe.

Marston. or groove cut in the wall, &c., and folded 2. A level ground lying at a small depth Flat-fish (flat'fish), n. down so as to lap over and protect the join

A fish which has its under the surface of water; a shoal; a shaling. When the flashing is folded down over

body of a flattened form, swims on the side, low; a strand; a sandbank under water. the upturned edge of the lead of a gutter it

and has both eyes on one side, as the flounis, in Scotland, called an apron.

I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,

der, turbot, halibut, and sole. The sense is

But I should think of shallows and of flats. Shak. sometimes extended to other fishes which Flashy (flash'i), a. 1. Showy, but empty; dazzling for a moment, but not solid.

3. Something broad and flat in form; as, (a) have the body much compressed, as the

a broad, flat-bottomed boat without a keel, skate and other members of the ray family. Flashy wits cannot fathom the whole extent of a large discourse.

Sir K. Digby.

generally used in river navigation. (6) A Flat-footed (flat'fyt-ed), a. 1. Having flat 2. Showy, but generally cheap; gay; gaudy;

broad-brimmed, low-crowned straw hat. feet; having little or no hollow in the sole,

(United States. ) (c) A railway car without a and a low arch in the instep.-2. Firm-footed; tawdry; as, a flashy dress. .- 3. Insipid;

roof. [United States.)-4. The flat part or resolute. (American slang term.] vapid; without taste or spirit, as food or drink. "Lean and flashy songs.

Milton.

side of anything; as, the upper extended sur Flat-head, Flat-headed (fathed, flathed

face of the hand, the broad side of a sword or ed), a. Having a flat head: applied as an 4. Quick; impulsive; fiery. 'A temper always

knife, and the like.-5. In music, a mark of epithet to a certain tribe of American flashy.' Burke. Flask (flask), n. (A. Sax. flasc, flasca, flaxa;

depression in sound. It is marked thus b Indians who produce this flatness by artifithe ultimate origin of the word is doubtful. and is used to lower or depress, by the

cial means. Comp. 0. Fr. flasche, flascon; Sp. flasco; It.

degree of a semitone, any note in the natural Flatidæ (flat'i-dē), n. pl. A sub-family of

scale. An accidental flat is one which does hemipterous insects, belonging to the Fulflasco; L. L. flasco, flasca, which Diez refers to L. vasculum, a dim. of vas, a vessel.

gorida. These insects yield Chinese wax The

not occur in the signature, and which affects Dan. flaske, Sw. flaska, O.H.G. flasca, are

only the bar in which it is placed. A double as a thread-like secretion, which is renewed probably from the same source.

when removed. flat depresses a note two semitones below its

The O.Fr. flasche, L.L. flasco, appear originally to

natural pitch.-6. In arch. that part of the Flat-iron (fiat'i-érn), n. An iron for smoothhave been coverings to protect glass bottles;

covering of a house laid horizontal, and ing cloth. It is applied directly to the fire

covered with lead or other material.-7. A and then passed firmly over the surface of and this being the case the w. flasg, a vessel of wicker-work, a basket, may be the

story or floor of a building, especially when the fabric to be smoothed. ultimate origin of all the forms.) 1. A kind

fitted up for a single family.--8. A foolish Flativet (flät'iv), a. [L. flatus, from flo, to of bottle; as, a flask of wine or oil.

fellow; a simpleton; one who is easily blow.) Producing wind; flatulent.
duped; a gull.

Flatlingt (flat'ling), adv. (Comp. in respect
Then for the Bourdeaux you may freely ask;
But the Champaigne is to each man his fiask. King.

Oh! Messrs. Tyler, Donelson, and the rest, what

of the adverbial term. -ling, the word darkflats you are.

Times newspaper.

ling. With the flat side; flatwise. Specifically, (a) a narrow-necked globular glass bottle; as, a Florence fiask. (b) A metal

9. In ship-building, one of the timbers in With her sword she flatling strooke, or other pocket dram-bottle; as, a pocket midships.--10. In theatres, one of the halves

In signe of true subjection to her powre. Spenser, of such scenes or parts of scenes as are Flatlings (flat'lingz), adv. With the flat flask. (c) A vessel, generally of metal or

formed by two equal portions pushed from side; not edgewise; flatlong. "The blade horn, for containing gunpowder, carried by

the sides of the stage and meeting in the struck me flatlings.' Sir W. Scott. (Rare.) sportsmen, usually furnished with a measure

centre. of the charge at the top. (d) A vessel for Flat (flat), v.t. pret. & pp. flatted; ppr. flat

Flatlong (flat long), adv. With the flat side

downward; not edgewise. containing mercury, A flask of mercury from California is about 75 lbs.-2. A shal

ting. 1. To level; to lay smooth or even; What a blow was there given|--An it had not to make broad and smooth; to flatten.

fallen flatlong

Shak. low frame of wood or iron, used in foundries

2. To make vapid or tasteless. Bacon.-3. To Flatly (flat'li), ado. In a flat manner; to contain the sand employed in moulding. make dull or unanimated; to depress. 3. A bed in a gun-carriage.

horizontally; evenly; without spirit; dully; Flasket (flask'et), n. 1. A vessel in which

It mortifies the body, and flats the pleasure of the frigidly; peremptorily; positively; plainly. senses.

Glanville. viands are served up.--2. A long shallow

He that does the work of religion, slowly. flatly, basket. 4. In music, to reduce below the true pitch, and without appetite.

Jer. Taylor Flat (flat), a. (Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, as a note, by depressing it half a tone.

He flatly refused his aid. Sir P. Sidney. G. flach and platt, flat. Akin Lith. platus, To flat in the sail (naut.), to draw in the

State or quality of

Flatness (flat'nes), n. Gr. platys, Skr. prithus, wide, broad. ] 1. Hav.

aftmost clew of a sail towards the middle of ing an even and horizontal, or nearly horithe ship

being flat (in all its senses); levelness; equal

ity of surface; want of relief or prominence; zontal surface, without elevations or de Flat (flat), v.i. 1. To grow flat; to fall to an pressions, hills or valleys; level without even surface.-2. To become insipid, or dull

deadness; vapidness; insipidity; low state; inclination; as, flat land; a flat roof. and unanimated.-3. In music, to depress

abjectness; depression of spirits; want of life; Virtue could see to do what virtue would the voice; to render a sound less sharp; to

dulness; insipidity; frigidity; gravity of By her own radiant light, though sun and moon fall below the true pitch.

sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness,

or shrillness. Were in the flat sea sunk.

*The flatness of my misery.'
Flatt (flat), adv.
Milton.
Directly; plainly.

Shak. 2. Prostrate; lying the whole length on the Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. G. Herbert.

Some of Homer's translators have swelled into ground; level with the ground; fallen; laid Flat-aft (flat'aft), a. Naut. noting the posi- fustian, and others sunk into flatness. Pope. low; ruined.

tion of sails when their surfaces are pressed Flatness of sound-joined with a harshness. Bacon.

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