FLINTERS 295 FLOAT heaved beds of drift,' and in connection Flipper (flip'er), n. 1. The paddle of a sea Like the borealis race with the remains of extinct species of the turtle; the broad fin of a fish; the arm of a That fit ere you can point their place. Burns. elephant, rhinoceros, and other mammals; seal. 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. and therefrom man's existence on the globe Petersen and Christian practise an Esquimaux He cut the cord at a geological period anterior to the present mode of attracting the seals; they scrape the ice, Which fastened by the foot the flitting bird. has been inferred. Flint implements are thus making a noise like that produced by making a Dryden. hole with its flippers. M'Clintock. still used by some savage tribes. 3. To remove; to migrate; to pass rapidly, Flinters (flin'térz), n. pl. Flinders. [Vulgar.) Flirt (flert), v.t. 2. The hand. [Slang. ) as a light substance, from one place to another. Flint-glass (flint'glas), n. A species of [Possibly influenced by glass, so called because pulverized flints imitative tendency, and perhaps expressive It became a received opinion that the souls of men, of the noise made by a jerk with a light departing this life, did ftit out of one body into some were originally employed in its manufac other. It is from the Hooker. implement, as with a fan. ture. It is extensively used for domestic use of the fan that the word has the sense, 4. To remove from one habitation to another. purposes. Its dispersive power in regard to light renders it invaluable in the manufacnow generally attached to it, of coquetting, [Old English and Scotch.)-5. To be unstable; as applied to ladies. Comp. A. Sax. fleard, to be easily or often moved. ture of the object-glasses of telescopes and microscopes, as by combining a concave trifle, folly; fleardian, to trifle; G. jlirren, And the free soul to flitting air resign'd. Dryden. trifles, Hirren, to make a confused noise. ] | Flit (flit), v.t. To cause to flit or remove; to lens of flint-glass with one or two convex 1. To throw with a jerk or sudden effort or lenses of crown-glass, which possesses a remove; to dispossess. [Old English and exertion; to fling suddenly. Scotch.) much less dispersive power, a compound lens is formed in which the prismatic colours Not one to flirt a venom at her eyes, Flitt (flit), a. Nimble; quick; swift. _*Two Or pinch a murderous dust into her drink? arising from a simple refraction are de darts exceeding flit. Spenser. See FLEET. Tennyson!. stroyed, and the lens rendered achromatic. 2. To move backwards and forwards orother Flitch (flich), n. (Softened form of Prov. E. Quartz and fine sand are now substituted wise with short, quick movements; to make flick, bacon; A. Sax. flicce, a flitch of bacon, for flint in the manufacture of this glass. Comp. flesh.] 1. The side of a hog salted coquettish motions with. Flint-heart, Flint-hearted (flint' härt, and cured.-2. In carp. one of several as Permit some happier inan flinthärt-ed), a. Having a hard, unfeeling To kiss your hand or flirt your fan. sociated planks fastened side by side to form Lord Dorset. heart; hard-hearted; cruel. Put the jlint a compound beam. 3. To jibe at; to jeer at; to scoff at. heart Persians to the sword.' Old play. Flite, Flyte (flyt), v.i. [A. Sax. sitan, to I'm ashained, I'm scorned, I'm flirted, Beau. & FI. strive, contend, quarrel.) To scold; to quarOh, pity,'gan she cry, 'flint-hearted boy.' Shak. Flirt (flert), v.i. 1. To jeer or gibe; to throw rel; to brawl. [Old English and Scotch. ] Flintiness (flint'i-nes), n. The quality of harsh or sarcastic words; to utter contemp- Flite, Flyte (Ayt), n. The act of scolding; being flinty; hardness; cruelty. tuous language. Beau. & Fl. - 2. To run a scolding; a quarrel, with angry words; an Flint-lock (flintlok), n. A musket-lock in and dart about; to be moving hastily from angry dispute; a brawl. (Scotch.] which fire is produced by a fint striking on place to place; to be unsteady or fluttering; I think maybe a flyte wi' the auld housekeeper at the steel pan: now superseded by locks on to act with levity or giddiness. Monkbarns, or Miss Grizzel, wad do me some gude. the percussion principle. The trembling family they daunt, Sir W. Scott. Flint-stone (flint'ston), n. A hard siliceous They flirt, they sing, they laugh, they tattle. Flitter (flit'ér), v.i. To flutter. [Old English stone; flint. Gray. and Scotch.) Flinty (flint'i), a. 1. Consisting or composed 3. To play the coquette; to coquet; as, to Flitter (flit'ér), n. [See FLUTTER.] A rag; of flint; as, a flinty rock. --- 2. Like flint; very flirt with gentlemen. a tatter. hard; not impressible; cruel; unmerciful; Flirt (flert), 1. 1. A sudden jerk; a quick Flittermouse (flit'er-mous), n. [Flitter, to inexorable; as, a flinty heart. throw or cast; a darting motion. flutter, and mouse; G. fledermaus.) A bat; The tyrant custom, most grave senators, In unfurling the fan are several little Hirts and a flickermouse; a flindermouse. Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war vibrations. dddison. Flittern (flit'érn), a. In tanning, applied to My thrice-driven bed of down, Shak. 2. A contemptuous remark; a jibe; a jeer. the bark of young oak-trees, as distinguished Gratitude, One flirt at him, and then I am for the voyage. from that of old trees, which is called tim Beau & FI. ber-bark, and is less valuable than flittern 3. One who flirts; especially, a woman who bark as a tanning agent. 3. Full of or abounding in flint-stones; as, acts with giddiness or plays at courtship; a Flittiness (flit'i-nes), n. State or quality of flinty ground pert girl; a coquette. [The term is occasionFlinty-rock, Flinty-slate (flint'i-rok, fint' being flitty; unsteadiness ; levity; lightally applied to a male.] ness. “That volatileness and flittiness of our i-slāt), n. A siliceous schist of a somewhat Several young Wirts about town had a design to memories.' Bp. Hopkins. slaty structure, occurring in beds in metacast us out of the fashionable world. Addison. Flitting (flit'ing), n. 1. A flying with lightmorphic strata, containing about 75 per General Tufto is a great flirt of mine. Thackeray. ness and celerity; a fluttering.-2. A removal cent. of silica, the rest being lime, magnesia, Basanite or Lydian and oxide of iron. 4.1 A vile woman; a drab. from one habitation to another. (Scotch.) stone, used under the name of touch-stone For why may not the mother be naught, a peevish A neighbour had lent his cart for the fitting, and drunken flirt, a waspish coleric slut, a crazed piece, it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to for testing gold by its colour, is a variety a fool, as soon as the nurse? Feffrey without the slaty structure. Horn-stone Flirtation (flert-ā'shon), nr. 1. A flirting; a 3. Furniture which is being removed from belongs to the same group. Flip (flip), n. (Perhaps so called because it quick sprightly motion. - 2. Desire of at- one house to another. [Scotch.) is supposed to give one as it were a fillip or tracting notice; act of playing at courtship; Flittingly (flit'ing-li), adv. In a flitting coquetry. manner. flip, to make one brisk.] A mixed liquor 1 assisted at the birth of that most significant word Flitty (flit'i), a. Unstable; fluttering. Busyconsisting of beer and spirit sweetened, and flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful ing their brains in the mysterious toys of heated by a hot iron. mouth in the world. 2. flirtution is short of co- flitty motion.' Flip (flip), n. (A form of flap.] A smart Dr. H. More. mation. blow, as with a whip; a flick. (Colloq.] . Flip (flip), v.t. To flick. Down; fur. Flirtatious (flert-ā'shus), a. Given to flirt- With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey; His warm breath blows her fix up as she flies heated to warm flip. Flirt-gill, t Flirt-gilliant (flert'jil, flert-jil'. Dryden. Flipe (flyp), v.t. [Icel. flipa, the pendulous i-an), n. A light, wanton woman; a harlot. Flixt (fliks), n. [Corrupted from flux.] The lip of a wound. Akin E. flap. ] [Scotch.) You heard him take me up like a flirt-grill. flux; dysentery. 1. To pull off, as a stocking, by turning it Bearn. & FI. And loo! a womman that suffride the flix or rennyge inside out.--2. To ruffle back, as the skin. Thou took'st me up at every word I spoke, of blood twelve yeer, cam to lichynde. Flip-flap (flip'flap), n. (A reduplication of Beau. & FI. Wickliy's Bible. Mat. ix. 20. flap.] The repeated noise or stroke of some- Flirtigigt (flert'i-gig), n. A wanton or wild Flixweed (fliks'wēd), n. (From its supposed thing broad, flat, and pliant. flirting girl. power of curing fix or flux.) The SisymFlip-flap (flip'flap), ado. With a flapping Flirtingly (flert'ing-li), adv. In a flirting brium Sophia, a species of water-cresses, a noise. manner. warm, aromatic plant, sometimes used as a Flippancy (flip'an-si), n. (See FLIPPANT.] Flisk (flisk), v.i. (Perhaps another form of pot-herb, found growing on walls and waste The state or quality of being flippant; frisk.) To skip restlessly about; to bounce grounds. It is also called Fine-leared Hedgesmoothness and rapidity of speech; pertness; or caper, as a horse. (Scotch.) mustard. inconsiderate volubility; fluency of speech. Flisk (flisk), v.t. To render restless; to fret. Flot (flö), n. (A. Sax, fa, flån, an arrow.) An Flippant (flipant), a. (Formed from thip, [Scotch.) arrow. flap; akin to Icel. fleipr, tattle, fleipinn, pert, Fashious fools are easiest siisket. Scotch proverb. Float (flöt), n. [A. Sax. flota, that which petulant, fleppin, thoughtless, ) 1. of smooth; Flisk (flisk), n. floats, a fleet. See the verb. In some of its fuent, and rapid speech; speaking with A sudden spring or evoluease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; tion; a caper; a whim. (Scotch.] meanings, however, the word has probably a different origin. ] 1. That which floats talkative. I never knew much of that sort of fine ladies; but or rests on the surface of a fluid; as, there is something in Miss Ashton's change.--too It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flip sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own. (a) a body or collection of timber, boards, pant and free in their speech. Barroru. Sir IT Scott. or planks, fastened together and conveyed 2. Speaking fluently and confidently, with. Fliskmahoy (fisk'ma - hoi), n. A giddy, down a stream; a raft; a buoy. (b) The cork out knowledge or consideration; voluble gawky girl; a flirt-gill. (Scotch.] or quill used on an angling line, to support and thoughtless; heedlessly pert; petulant. That silly fliskmahoy, Jenny Rintherout, has ta'en it and indicate the bite of a fish. (c) The the exies. Sir W. Scott. It ill becomes one, while he bends under the weight small piece of ivory on the surface of the of insuperable objections, to grow so exceedingly Flisky (flisk'i), a. Fidgetty; unsettled; mercury in the basin of a barometer. (d) The rippant. Waterland. hollow metallic sphere of a self-acting faucet Flippant (flip'ant), n. A flippant person. Flit (Alit), v.i. pret. & pp. fitted; ppr. slitting. which floats in the boiler of a steam-engine, (Rare. ] [Comp. Dan. flytte, Sw. flytta, to remove. or in a cistern.-2. The act of flowing; flux; Flippantly (flip'ant-li), adv. In a flippant Probably akin to flee, fieet, jly, flutter, &c., flood.-3. A quantity of earth, 18 feet square manner; fluently; with ease and volubility but the inter-relationship of all these words and 1 deep.-4. A wave. "The Mediterof speech is by no means clear.) i. To fly away with ranean float.' Shak. - 5. In plastering, a Flippantness (Aip'ant-nes), n. The state a rapid motion; to dart along; to move with long rule with a straight edge, by which the or quality of being flippant; fluency of celerity through the air; as, a bird flits work is reduced to a plane surface. An speech; volubility of tongue; flippancy. away, or flits in air; a cloud jlits along. angle float is one made to fit an internal FLOAT 296 FLOOD angle; a two-handed float is termed a darby. compartments. When the vessel is docked, cus, a lock of wool.] The state of being floc6. The float-board of a water-wheel.-7. A the floating-dock is raised by having the culent: adhesion in small flakes. single-cut file for smoothing. water pumped out till its bottom touches Flocculent (flok'ü-lent), a. Coalescing and Float (flöt), v.i. (A. Sax. fleótan, flotian, to the keel of the ship. Props are then sup- adhering in locks or flakes. float, apparently a kind of causal of powan, plied to keep the ship in position, and the Floccus (flok’kus), n. pl. Flocci (flok'sī). to flow. Comp. the etymologies under dock is raised still higher by the compart- (L.) 1. In zool. the long tuft of hair which FLEET, FLOOD, Flow, which are all closely ments being further emptied. Instead of terminates the tail of the mammalia.-2. In allied words.] 1. To rest on the surface of compartments water-tight tanks may be bot. a woolly filament sometimes occurring a fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up. Shak. used, and the dock raised and lowered on with the sporules of certain fungi. The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground. the same principle. Or again, floating-docks Flock (flok), n. (A. Sax. floc, flocc, a flock, a Alilton. may be made so heavy as to sink by their company, a band of men. Cog. Dan. flok, 2. To glide without effort or impulse on the own weight deep enough to allow the largest Sw. flock, Icel. flockr, flock; E. folk; Pol. surface of a fluid; to move as if supported vessel to pass over their bottom. They are pulk, Rus. polk, a regiment of soldiers; Lith. by a fluid; to move gently and easily through then raised by forcing down empty water- pulkas, a flock, crowd, herd.) 1. A company the air. tight tanks, which lift dock and ship by or collection of living creatures: especially They stretch their plumes and float upon the wind. their buoyancy. The cut represents the applied to birds and sheep, seldom (except Pope in plural) to cattle and other large animals; Float (flöt), v.t. 1. To cause to float; to thus we speak distinctively of flocks and cause to rest or be conveyed on the surface herds. “Like a flock of wild geese.' Shak. of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into *This flock of drunkards.' Shak. 'A flock the harbour; the men are employed in float of ravenous fowl.' Milton. ing timber down the river. -2. To flood; to The heathen that had fled out of Judæa came to inundate; to overflow; to cover with water. Nicanor by flocks. 2 Maccab. xiv. 14. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands. Dryden. 2. A Christian congregation in relation to 3. In plastering, to pass over and level the the pastor, who is appointed to take charge surface of, as plaster, with a float, frequently of them in spiritual things. dipped in water. ---4. To bring prominently Flock (flok), v.i. To gather in companies or before public notice; to raise funds, as by crowds; as, people flock together. the sale of shares, for carrying on an under Thither Rock'd at noon taking; to set agoing; as, to float a scheme, Transverse Section of Floating-dock, Port of Ferrol. His tenants, wife and child, and thither half a mining or railway company, &c. The neighbouring borough. Tennyson. Floatage (flöt'āj), n. Anything that floats section of a dock of the first kind, showing Flockt (Alok), v.t. To crowd. on the water. the interior stays of the water-tight com- Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor, Floatant (flöt'ant), a. See FLOTANT. partments. Floatation, n. Same as Flotation. Floating-harbour (flot'ing-här-bér), n. A Flock (flok), n. [The origin may be L. floccus, Float-board (flot'bord), n. A board of the harbour formed by floating-breakwaters. a lock of wool, or the word may be originwater-wheel of undershot mills, which re- Floating-island (flot'ing-i-land), n. ally Teutonic, as it is common to the Teut1. An onic languages; comp. G. flocke, O.G. floccho, ceives the impulse of the stream, by which island formed in a lake or other inland the wheel is driven. water, consisting generally of a mass of D. vlok, Sw. flocka, Dan. flokke.] 1. A lock Float-case (flötkās), n. A contrivance for earth held together by interlacing roots. of wool or hair.--2. Finely powdered wool elevating bodies by the upward pressure of Sometimes such islands are large enough or cloth, used when coloured for making water under an air-tight metallic case, flock-paper.-3. The refuse of cotton and to serve as pasture grounds. Artificial floatmoving in a well or shaft. ing-islands have been formed by placing wool, or the shearing of woollen goods, or Floater(flötér), n. 1. One that floats or swims. lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered old cloth or rags torn or broken up by the 2. A registering float on a graduated stick, devil, used for stuffing mattresses, furniture, with reeds. -2. In cookery, a dish made of &c. to indicate a level attained between periods milk, white wine, sugar, and eggs, with raspof observation. Flock-bed (flokbed), n. A bed filled with berry or strawberry marmalade. Floating (flõt'ing), p. and a. 1. Lying flat Floating-light (flót'ing-lit), 11. 1. A life flocks or locks of wool, or pieces of cloth on the surface of the water; as, a fouting cut up fine; a bed stuffed with flock. buoy, carried at a ship's stern, with a reflecleaf.-2. Circulating; not fixed, or invested, tor or lantern containing a lamp, for use in A house well-furnish'd shall be thine to keep; or determined; of uncertain amount or case any one should fall overboard at night. And for a flock-bed I can shear my sheep. Dryden. employment; free to be used as occasion re- 2. A lightship moored on sunken rocks, Flockling (flok'ling), n. A little member of quires: opposed to sunk; as, floating capital; shoals, &c., to warn mariners of danger. a flock; a lamb; a sheep. Brome. floating debt.—3. Free; disconnected; un- See LIGHTSHIP. Flockly (flok'li), adv. In a body or in flocks. attached; as, the floating ribs in some fishes. Floatingly (flöt'ing-li), adv. By floating. Flock-master (flok'mas-tér), 11. An owner 4. In plastering, employed in floating; as, Floating-meadow (flöt'ing-me-do), n. Mea or overseer of a flock; a sheep-farmer. floating screeds. dow land, the surface of which is flat, ad- Flockmel, t adv. In a flock; in flocks or Floating (flöt'ing), n. 1. The act or condition joining a river or other source of water, herds. Chaucer. of one who or that which floats; as, (a) in with which it can be flooded at pleasure. Flock-paper (flok'pā-per), n. A kind of arch, the spreading of stucco or plastering Floating-pier (flöt'ing-pēr), n. A pier which wall-paper, having raised figures resembling on the surface of walls; the second coat of rises and falls with the tide. cloth, made of flock, or of cloth cut up very three-coat work. (6) In agri. the watering Floating-screed (flot'ing - skrēd), n. In fine, and attached to the paper by size or or overflowing of meadow-lands. --2. In plastering, a strip of plaster arranged and varnish. weaving, a thread of weft which floats, nicely adjusted for guiding the float. See Flocky (flok’i), a. Abounding with flocks spans, or crosses on the top of several FLOAT, n. 5. or locks of woolly matter; floccose. warped threads. See FLUSHING, 2. Floating-warehouse (flöt'ing-war-hous), n. Floe (flo), n. [ Dan. iis-flage, Sw. flaga, isFloating-anchor (flot'ing-angk-ér), n. See A device for diminishing the risk of ware flaga, floe.) Naut. a large mass of ice floatANCHOR housing explosive or inflammable substances, ing in the ocean. Floating-battery (flot'ing-bat-té-ri), n. Same as Fletz. as petroleum, nitro-glycerine, gunpowder, Floetz (filets), n. See under BATTERY. &c., formed of a number of upright hollow Flog (fog), v.t. pret. & pp. flogged; ppr. Floating-breakwater (flöt'ing-brāk-wa- iron cylinders, bound together and defended flogging. (Allied to Prov. E. flack, to beat; tér), n. A contrivance, consisting of a series from fluctuations of temperature by an outer flacket, to flap about; perhaps also to flap of square frames of timber, connected by casing of wood, the whole forming a kind of or flag. Comp. L flagrum, flagellum, a mooring-chains or cables, attached to an- raft capable of floating in water. Ea scourge (whence E. flagellate). I i. To beat chors or blocks of marble, in such a manner cylinder has a manhole at the top for the or whip; to chastise with repeated blows. as to form a basin, within which vessels reception of the substance to be stored in What shifts he us'd, detected in a scrape, riding at anchor may be protected from the its interior. The warehouse is generally How he was flogg'd or had the luck t'escape. violence of the waves. moored in a dock or basin at a distance Cowper. 2. To beat, in sense of surpass; to excel. Floating-bridge (flöt'ing-brij), n. 1. A from houses or shipping, so that there is bridge, consisting of rafts or timber with a 'If I don't think good cherry-bounce flogs less chance of fire being communicated to floor of plank, supported wholly by the it, and in case of an explosion the damage all the foreign trash in the world.' T. Hook. water. --2. Milit. a kind of double bridge, done to other property would be consider (Colloq.)-To flog a dead horse, to try to re vive interest in a stale subject. the upper one projecting beyond the lower ably decreased. One who flogs. Flogger (flog'er), n. one, and capable of being moved forward Floatstone (flöt'ston), n. A spongiform by pulleys, used for carrying troops over quartz, a mineral of a spongy texture, of a Flone, n. pl. of flo. (A. Sax. flån, an arrow.] Arrows. "Chaucer. narrow moats in attacking the outworks of whitish-gray colour, often with a tinge of Flong (flong). Old pp. from fling. a fort.-3. A large flat-bottomed steam yellow, so light as to float in water. It ferry-boat, in harbours or rivers, generally frequently contains a nucleus of common Flood (flud), n. (A. Sax. Fris. Dan. Sw. and Icel. flod, flood, from the root of flow (which running on chains laid across the bottom, see).) 1. A great flow of water; a body of for the conveyance of passengers, goods, Floaty (flöt'i). a. Buoyant; swimming on vehicles, railway trains, &c. the surface; light. moving water, particularly a body of water Floating-clough (flöting-kluf), n. A barge Floccillation (flok-sil-la'shon), n. (L. floccus, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not with scrapers attached, which is driven by a lock of wool.] A delirious picking of the usually covered with water; a freshet. 2. A river: a sense chiefly poetical. the tide or current to rake up the silt and bed-clothes, denoting great irritability and sand over which it passes, so that the sedi- debility of the brain. It is an unfavourable Arcadia's flow'ry plains and pleasing floods. Dryden. ment may be removed by the current. symptom in many acute diseases, as fevers, 3. The flowing in of the tide; the semi-diurnal Floating-dock (flot'ing-dok), n. A capa- swell or rise of water in the ocean: opposed .cious wooden or iron structure, generally Floccose (flok-os), a. (L. floccosus, full of toebb; as, the ship entered the harbour on the of a rectangular shape, intended to serve as locks of wool.] In bot. composed of or bear- flood. a graving-dock. Sometimes floating-docks ing tufts of woolly, or long and soft, hairs; There is a tide in the affairs of men, are built in water-tight compartments, and woolly. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak, ships to be repaired are easily floated into Floccosely (flok-õsʻli), adv. In a floccose or 4. A great quantity; an inundation; an overthem, as they can be sunk to the required tufted manner. flowing; abundance; superabundance; as, a depth by the admission of water into the Flocculence (flok'ü-lens), n. (From L. floc- flood of bank-notes; a flood of paper currency. flint. FLOOD 297 FLORINEAN “A flood of visitors.' Shak. -5. A great body Flop (flop), v. t. [Another form of flap.] 1. To Floret (flö'ret), n. (Fr. fleurette, It. fioretto, or stream of any fluid substance or of any- clap or strike the wings; to flap; as, the a little flower.) A single small flower in a thing resembling a fluid; as, a flood of lava; bird flopped its wings. --2. To let down sud compact intiora flood of light; hence, fig. a flood of vice. denly; to let down the brim of, as a hat. escence, as in the 6.' Menstrual discharge. The Flood, the Fanny, during the examination, had flopped her So-called comdeluge in the days of Noah. hat over her eyes, which were also bathed in tears. pound flower of Flood (flud), v.t. To overflow; to inundate; Fielding the Composite, 1. To strike about with to deluge; to irrigate; as, to flood a meadow. Flop (flop), v.i. or in the spikelet Flood-anchor (flud'angk-er), n. The anchor something broad and flat, as a bird with its of grasses. by which a ship rides during the flood-tide. wings or a fish with its tail; to flap; as, the Floret (flör'et), n. Flooder (flud'ér), n. One who floods or irri- brim of a hat flops.-2. To plump down sud (Fr. fleuret.) A gates. denly; as, she flopped on her knees. fencing sword; Floodgate (flud'gāt), n. A gate to be opened If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in a foil. Dickens. for letting water tow through, or to be shut favour of your husband and child. In such fencing to prevent it; hence, any opening or passage; Flop (flop), n. The sound made by a soft out jest has proved eam. spread body falling suddenly to the ground; Flower of Common Arnica a vent; also, an obstruction or restraint. est, and fiorets have (Arnica montara). -1, Ray oft turned to swords. As if the opening of her mouth had opened some she fell with a flop. as, floret. 2, Disc floret. More. great foodgale of sorrow, whereof her heart could And with a desperate ponderous flop, full thirteen Floretty (flor'etnot abide the violent issue, she sunk to the ground. stone and ten pounds, .. I dropped on the Rajah's ti), a. In her. same as Fleury. Sir P. Sidney. feet, and took my seat at his side. W. H. Russell. Flooding (flud'ing), n. 1. The act of over Floriage (flö'ri-aj), n. [From L flos, floris, Floppy (flop'i), a. Having a tendency to a flower.] Bloom; blossom. flowing or inundating; inundation. --2. A flop; as, a floppy hat. Floriated, a. See FLOREATED. morbid discharge of blood from the uterus. Flora (flora), n. [L., from flos, floris, a flower.) Florican (flö'ri-kan), n. See FLORIKAN. Flood-mark (fludmärk), ”. The mark or 1. In class. myth. the goddess of flowers. Floricomous (flö-riko-mus), a. (L. floricoline to which the tide rises; high-water 2. In bot. (a) a work systematically describing mus--flos, floris, a flower, and coma, hair.) mark the species of plants of a country or geolo- Having the top or head adorned with Flood-tide (flud'tid), n. The rising tide. gical period. (6) The botany or the complete flowers. See FLOOD, 4. series of plants indigenous to any district, Floricultural (flõ-ri-kul'tūr-al), a. Relating Flook (flök), n. Same as Fluke. country, region, or period; as, the British to floriculture. Flookan, Flooking (flök'an, flök'ing), n. flora; the flora of the carboniferous period. Floriculture (flö'ri-kultūr), n. (L. flos, Same as Flucan (which see). See FAUNA.- 3. One of the small planets fioris, a flower, and cultura, cultivation.] Flooky (flök'i), a. Same as Fluky. or asteroids, between the orbits of Mars The culture or cultivation of flowers or Floor (flor), n. [A. Sax. flör, före, a floor. and Jupiter, discovered by Mr. Hind, 18th flowering plants, whether in open beds in Cog. D. vloer, a floor; G. flur, a field, a floor; October, 1847. gardens, in conservatories or greenhouses, W. llawr, the ground, the floor of a house; Floral (Hoʻral), a. [In sense 1 from L. Flor- or in rooms in dwelling-houses. Gael. lar, the ground, earth-floor.] 1. That alis, from Flora; sense 2 from L. flos, floris, Floriculturist (flo-ri-kultūr-ist), 13. One part of a building or room on which we walk; a flower.) 1. Pertaining to Flora or to interested in the cultivation of flowers or the bottom or lower part, consisting in mo- flowers; as, Floral games. -2. Containing flowering plants. dern houses of boards, planks, pavement, as- or belonging to the flower; pertaining to Florid (flo'rid), a. (L. floridus, from floreo, phalte,&c.-2. A platform of boards or planks flowers in general; made of flowers ; as, a to flower, to bloom, from flos, floris, a flower.] laid on timbers, as in a bridge; any similar floral bud; a floral leaf; floral ornaments. 1. Covered or abounding with flowers; platform. - 3. A story in a building; a suite --- Floral envelope, in bot. the calyx and flowery. Your florid orchard blows.' Pope. of rooms on a level; as, the first or second corolla, or calyx alone if there is no corolla. 2. Bright in colour; flushed with red; of a floor. -4. Naut. that part of the bottom of a Florally (flo'ral-li), adv. In a floral manner; lively red colour; as, a florid countenance; vessel on each side of the keelson which is in a manner in which flowers are concerned; a florid cheek. - 3. Embellished with flowers most nearly horizontal. -5. In legislative as, florally ornamented. of rhetoric; enriched with lively figures; assemblies, the part of the house assigned Floramour (flo-ra-mör), n. (Fr.-L. flos, splendid; brilliant; as, a florid style; florid to the members." [United States.)--To have floris, a flower, and amor, love.) A flower eloquence. or get the floor, in the United States Congress, begetting love. Ash, The first letter which William unrolled seemed to to have or obtain an opportunity of taking Floran (flor'an), n. 1. Tin ore stamped very contain only florid compliments. Macaulay. part in a debate: equivalent to the English small. -2. An exceedingly small-grained tin -Florid style of Gothic architecture, that phrase, to be in possession of the house. ore, scarcely perceptible in the stone, though highly enriched and decorated species of Mr. T. claimed that he had the floor. perhaps very rich. architecture which prevailed in the fifteenth New York Herald. Florascope (fo'ra-skop), n. (E. Flora, and and at the beginning of the sixteenth cenFloor (for), v.t. 1. To cover with a floor; to Gr. skopeo, to behold.] An optical instru tury: often called the Tudor Style, as it furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with ment for inspecting flowers. prevailed chiefly during the Tudor era. pine boards.-2. To strike down or lay level Floret (for), n. Floor; an area or ground. Florideæ (flö-rid'e-ē), n. pl. A name given with the floor; to beat; to conquer; as, to plot-On the flore, on the spot. Spenser. to the rose-spored algæ, in consequence of floor an antagonist.-3. Fig. to put to silence Floréal (flo-rā-al), n. (Fr., from L. flos, floris, many of them exhibiting the rosy tints of by some decisive argument, retort, &c.; to a flower.) In the French republican calendar, flowers. They are now more generally overcome in any way; to overthrow, the eighth month of the year, dating from known as rhodosperms. One question ...floored successively almost every September 22, 1792. It commenced April Floridity (flo-rid'i-ti), n. Freshness or brightwitness in favour of abolition to whom it was ad. 20 and ended May 19. ness of colour; floridness. dressed. Sal. Rev. Floreated, Floriated (flo'rē-at-ed, flõ'ri-āt. Floridly (flo'rid-li), adv. In a showy imposThe express object of his visit was to know how he ed), a. Decorated with floral ornament; ing way. could knock religion over and floor the Established having florid ornaments; as, the floreated Floridness (floʻrid-nes), n. The quality or Church. Dickens. capitals of early Gothic pillars; a floreated condition of being florid; brightness or fresh4. To go through; to make an end of; to ness of colour or complexion; embellishfinish. I've floored my little-go work.' Floree,+ n. The blue scum of dye-wood, used ment; brilliant elegance, as of style; vigour; Hughes. in painting. Chaucer. spirit. "The nature and floridness of the I have a few bottles of old wine left, we may as Floren, Florein, n. (See FLORIN.) A spe- plants.' Evelyn. “The anienity and floridwell floor them. Macmillan's Mag. cies of gold coin. Chaucer. ness of the warm-spirited blood.' Feltham. Floor-cloth (förkloth), n. A useful substi- Florence (fo'rens), n. 1. A kind of cloth. Floriferous (tó-rif'er-us), a. (L. florifertute for a carpet, frequently made partly of 2. A kind of wine from Florence in Italy. flos, floris, a flower, and fero, to bear.) Prohemp and partly of flax, and saturated with 3. A gold coin of the reign of Edward III. ducing flowers. a wash of melted size, and various coats of the value of 6s. sterling. - Florence flask, Florification (flö'ri--kā"shon), n. (L. flos, of oil-paint, and ornamented with a great a globular bottle of thin transparent glass, floris, a flower, and facio, to make.) The variety of patterns; oil-cloth for covering with a long neck, in which Florence oil act, process, or time of flowering; expansion floors. comes to England. – Florence oil, a superior of flowers. Floorer (flor'ér), n. One who or that which kind of olive-oil prepared at Florence, and Floriform (flö'ri-form), a. (L. flos, floris, a floors, as a blow which floors a person; imported in Florence flasks. flower, and forma, shape. ] In the form of hence, fig. anything which leads to a person's Florentine (floʻren-tin), a. Of or pertaining a flower. defeat or which overmasters him, as, in the to Florence.- Florentine work, a kind of Florikan, Floriken (flo'ri-kan, flö'ri-ken), n. universities, an examination paper which a mosaic work, consisting of precious stones The native name of a fine species of bustard student cannot answer. [Slang. ) and pieces of marble, so named because the (Otis aurita) much prized by Indian sportsFloor-guide (flor'gid), n. In ship-building, Florentines were distinguished for this kind men. Called also Florican, Florikin. a narrow flexible piece of timber placed of work.-Florentine fresco, a kind of paint. Florilege (flöʻri-lēj), n. [I. florilegur, flowerbetween the floor-riband and the keel. ing, first practised at Florence during the culling-flos, floris, a tower, and lego, to Floor-head (flor'hed), n. In ship-building, flourishing period of Italian art, for decor cull.] 1. The culling of flowers.--2. Å treaone of the upper extremities of the floor- ating walls.– Florentine lake, a pigment, tise on flowers. timbers of a vessel. formerly used, prepared from cochineal. Florin (flo'rin), (Fr., It. fiorino, a nam Floor -hollow (forhol-16), n. Naut. an Florentine (flo'ren-tin), n. 1. A native or first applied to a Florentine coin, because elliptical mould for the hollow of the floor- inhabitant of Florence.--2. A kind of silk it was stamped with a lily, in It. fiore, from timbers and lower futtocks of a vessel. cloth.-3.1 A kind of pastry: 'Stealing cus- L. flos, floris, a flower.) A name given to Flooring (flör'ing), n. 1. A platform; the tards, tarts, and florentines.' Beau. d Fl. different coins of gold or silver, of different bottom of a room or building; pavement. When any kind of butcher meat, fowls, apples, &c., values, and to moneys of account, in differ2. Materials for floors. are baken in a dish, it is called a fiorentine, and ent countries. The English florin is 28. or Floorless (flor'les), a. Having no floor. when in a raised crust, a pie. Receipts in Cookery. one-tenth of a pound sterling; the Austrian Floor-timber (Alor'tim-bėr), n. One of the Florescence (flo-res'sens), n. [From L. flo- gulden or florin of the present day about the timbers on which a floor is laid; specifi- rescens, pp. of floresco, to begin to blossom, same; the gulden or florin of Germany, 18.8d.; cally, in ship-building, one of the timbers incept. from foreo, to blossom, from flos, the guilder or florin of Holland, 18. sd. which are placed immediately across the foris, a flower.) In bot. a bursting into Florinean (flo-rin'é-an), n. One of a sect of keel, and upon which the bottom of the ship flower; the season when plants expand their Gnostics of the second century, so called is framed. flowers; inflorescence. from Florinus, a Roman priest, who was cross. FLORIPAROUS 298 FLOURISH Pore. excommunicated by Pope Eleutherius in pressure easing off, the ship became almost upright, Flour (flour), v.t. 1. To grind and bolt; to 176. and began to settle down to the proper level of joal convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.-2. To ation. Capt. Allen Young. Floriparous (flő-rip'a-rus), a. [L. flos, floris, sprinkle with flour. a flower, and pario, to produce.) 1. Pro2. The science of floating bodies.- Plane or Flour-box (flourboks), 1. A tin box for ducing flowers. — 2. In bot, a term applied to line of rotation, the plane or line in which scattering flour; a dredging or dreilge box. plants in which other flowers are produced the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body Flour-dredge, Flour-dredger (flour drej, instead of fruit. tloating in it.- Stable flotation, a term ap- tour'drej-ér), n. Same as Flour-box. Floripondio (flo-ri-pon' di-o), n. (Spanish plied to that position of a floating body in Flour-dresser (flour'dres-er), n. A cylinder name) A plant, the Datura sanguinea, an which it is not capable of being upset by for dressing flour, instead of passing it infusion from whose seeds, prepared by the the exertion of a small force, but, when through bolting-cloths. Peruvians, induces stupefaction, and if used slightly disturbed, invariably returns to its Floure, + v.i. To flourish. Chaucer. largely, furious delirium. This infusion is former position. When the metacentre is Flourette, t n. A floweret or small flower. said to have been used by the priests of the directly above the centre of gravity of a Chancer. temple of the Sun in the ancient capital to floating body, the flotation is stable; when Flourish (flu’rish), v.i. [Fr. fleurir, fleurisproduce franticravings, which werc accepted the metacentre is below the centre of gravity, sant, L. floreo, to flower, to bloom, from as inspired prophecies. the flotation is unstable; and when the flos, florix, a flower.) 1. To thrive; to grow Florist (flor'ist), 11. (Fr. fleuriste, a florist. ] metacentre and centre of gravity coincide, luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a 1. A cultivator of flowers; one skilled in the flotation or equilibrium is indifferent. healthy growing plant; as, the beech and flowers; one who deals in flowers.--2. One Flote (flöt), v.t. To skim. Tusser. (Local.] the maple flourish best in a deep, rich, and who writes a flora or an account of plants. Flotet (flöt), n. A float; a wave. moist loam. Floroon (flo'rön), 1. [Fr. fleuron. See They all have met again, By continual meditations in sacred writings a man FLOWER.) A border worked with towers. And are upon the Mediterranean flore, Shak. as naturally improves and advances in holmess, as a Florulentt (Hor'ü-lent). a. (L. florulentus, tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly and wellwatered soil. Bp. Horne. from flos, floris, a flower.) Flowery; blos- Flotery,ta. Floating Chaucer. soming Flotilla (flo-til'la), n. (Sp. dim. of flota (which 2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, Flory (flö'ri), a. (Fr. fleuré, flowery.] Vain. see).] A little t; a tle of small vessels. comfort, happiness, or honour; to have abun(Scotch.) Flotsam, Flotson (flot'sam, flot'son), n. dance of good things or qualities; to proFlory-boat (flo'ri-bót), n. A local name for [From float.] Such a portion of the wreck sper; to augment; to thrive. a boat employed in carrying passengers to of a ship and the cargo as continues floating Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and and from steamers which cannot get along on the surface of the water. (See JETSAM.) that by the means of their wickedness, Nelson, side of a quay at low water. Flotsam belongs to the sovereign or the But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth In bot. applied Floscular (flos'kūl-ér), a. grantee of the sovereign, if no owner appears Unhurt amid the war of elements. Addison. to the flowers of Composita, which consist to claim within a year after it is taken pos. In Athens, or free Rome, where eloquence session of by the parties otherwise entitled. Flourish'd, since mute. Millon. of many florets. Flosculariæa (flos-kū-la'ri-e'a), n. pl. A Flotte, t v.i. To flow; to float. Chaucer. 3. To use florid language; to make a display family of Rotifera furnished with a carapace Flottent (flot'en), pp. Skimmed. of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious, or sheath, with bundles of long cilia which Flough, n. See FLEW. and flowery. mostly remain rigidly extended, vibrating Flounce (flouns), v.i pret. & pp. flounced; They dilate and flourish long on little incidents, only occasionally. The eyes, in some of the ppr. plouncing. (Akin N. flunsa, to plunge Watts. genera, disappear on their reaching the about in water; 0.D. plonssen, to plunge; E. 4. To make bold strokes in writing; to make. adult state, but they may often be distinctly plunge.) To make violent or rapid move. large, irregular, and fanciful lines; to make seen in the young partly hatched ova. ments with the limbs and body; to spring, ornamental strokes; as, tu flourish with the Floscule (tlos'kūl), nt. (L. flosculus, dim. of turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; pen.-5. To move or be moved in fantastic flos, a flower.) In bot. a small flower in a to struggle; to flounder; to throw one's self irregular figures; to play with fantastic and compact inflorescence: the same as Floret. about with jerks, as if in displeasure or agi- irregular motion. tation. Flosculous, Flosculose (flos'kūl-us, flos'. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking, flourishid o'er his head. kül-os), a. Same as Floscular. They flounce and tumble in unwieldy joy. Thomson. Flos-ferri (flos-fer'ri), n. (L., flower of iron.) You neither fret, nor fume, nor flounce. Swift 6. In music, (a) to play in a bold dashing A coralloidal carbonate of lime, often found Flounce (flouns), n. A sudden jerking mo- style, introducing profusely ornamental but in cavities of spathic iron ore. tion of the body. unmeaning notes; as, to flourish on an Flosh (flosh), n. (Probably connected with Flounce (flouns), n. [Originally written organ or violin. (6) To play a bold prelude G. flöske, a trough in which ore is washed.] srounce, from Fr. froncis, a plait, from or fanfare, as on the trumpet. In metal, a hopper-shaped box in which ore froncer, fronser, to plait, to wrinkle. See Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? is placed for the action of the stamps. The FROUNCE.) A strip of cloth sewed horizon Shak. side of the box has a shutter which is raised tally round a frock or gown, with the lower 7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope. or lowered to allow the ore to escape when border loose and spreading. Flourish (flu’rish), v.t. 1. To cause to thrive; it has acquired the desired fineness. Peeps into every chest and box, to develop; to expand. Bacon. -2. To adorn Flosh-silk (flosh'silk), n. Same as Floss Turns all her furbeloes and flounces. Prior. with flowers or beautiful figures, either silk. (Rare.) Flounce (flouns), v.t. To deck with a flounce natural or artificial; to ornament with anyThe truckle-bed of Valour and Freedom is not or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or thing showy. wadded with fiosh-silk. Landor frock. The day book and inventory book shall be flour. Floss (flos), n. ished. Franck Com, Code. stream, liessen, to flow.) A small stream of jlundra, Icel. llythra, flounder.] 1. A small, 3. To make into flourishes; to make embelwater. (Local.) fat, malacopterygious fish of the family lishments or ornamental work out of. Floss (flos), n. [It. floscio, faint, flaccid, or Pleuronectidæ, and genus Pleuronectes or All that I shall say will be but like bottoms of fluxso (L. fluxus, flowing), fragile; in third Platessa, the common founder being the thread close wound up, which, with a good needle, meaning perhaps connected with G. flies- Pleuronectes or Platessa flesus. It is one perhaps may be fiourished into large works. Bacon sen, to pow.) 1. A downy or silky sub- of the most common of the flat-fishes, and 4. To make bold or irregular movements stance in the husks of certain plants. is found in the sea and near the mouths with; to hold in the hand and swing about; 2. Untwisted filaments of the finest silk, of large rivers all round our coast; but to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.–5. To used in embroidering on satin, &c. --3. A abounds most where the bottom is soft, embellish with the flowers of diction; to fluid glass floating upon iron in a puddling- whether of clay, sand, or mud. Flounders adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with furnace, produced by the vitrification of live and thrive whether in the sea, in ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a oxides and earths. brackish, or in fresh water; indeed they parade of words.—6. To varnish over; to Flossification (flos’i-fi-kā"shon), n. Same have been successfully transferred to fresh- gloss over; to give a fair appearance to. as Florification. water ponds. They feed upon aquatic in To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin Floss-silk (flos' silk), n. The portion of sects, worms, and small fishes; and some Sith that the justice of your title to himn ravelled silk broken off in the filature of the Shok. times, though not usually, acquire the weight Doth flourish the deceit. cocoons, and used for coarser fabrics; floss. of 4 lbs. The common founder is an inhab. Flourish (flu'rish), ir. 1. A flourishing conFlossy (fos'i), a. Belonging to, composed itant of the Northern, Baltic, and Mediter- dition. of, or resembling floss. ranean Seas. The Argus-tlounder is the P. Rome ... was in that flourish that Saint Austin argus, a native of the American seas.-2. A desired to see her in. Floss-yarn(flos'yärn),n. Yarn from floss-silk. Houell. Flota (flo'ta). n. (Sp. See FLEET.) A fleet; tool whose edge is used to stretch leather 2. Showy splendour; decoration; ornament: especially, the fleet of Spanish ships which for a boot front in a blocking-board. beauty. The flourish of his sober youth. formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Flounder (flounder), v.i. (Regarded by Crashaw.-3. Ostentatious embellishment; Vera Cruz in Mexico, to transport to Spain Wedgwood as a nasalized form of D. flod- ambitious copiousness or amplification; pathe productions of Span deren, to flap like a loose garment, and hence, rade of words and figures; show; as, a flour. ish America from similarity of sound, applied to the ish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit. Flotage (flötāj), n. [Fr. splashing motion of a body in water.) To He lards with flourishes his long harangue. flottage, a floating ; make violent motions with the limbs and Dryden. from E. float.] 1. The act body when hampered in some manner: to 4. A figure formed by bold, irregular lines, of floating. - 2. That struggle as a horse in the mire; to roll or or faneiful strokes of the pen or graver; as, which floats on the sea or tumble about. the flourishes about a great letter. – 5. A on rivers. (Rare.) They have foundered on from blunder to blunder. brandishing; the waving of a weapon or Flotant, Floatant (flöt' II'. Hamilton. something else held in the hand; as, the ant), p. and a. In her. Flour (flour), n. [Fr. fleur, from L. flos, flourish of a sword. floating either in the air, A banner flotant. floris, a flower--contr. for fleur de farine, The next day Miss Ritter saw the deacon drive as a bird or flag, or in the the finest part of the meal. Comp. flourers past with a waggon-load of children; he nodded his water: as applied to a bind, it is synonym- of sulphur. See FLOWER, which is merely head at her as he passed, and whipped up the old ous with Disclosed (which see). another form of the same word.] The finely horse with a flourish. Harper's Vonthiy Mag. Flotation, Floatation (fot-a'shon), n. ground meal of wheat or of any other grain; 6. In music, the decorative notes which a 1. The act or state of floating. especially, the finer part of meal separated singer or instrumental performer adds to a We were held in suspense till 8 p. mn., when the by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder passage, with the double view of heightening bearings of the icebergs being altered, and the extra of any substance; as, flour of emery. the effect of the composition and of display or FLOURISHED 299 FLOWER-INWOVEN ing his own flexibility of voice or finger. with a somewhat different form. The word Flower-de-lis, Flower-de-luce (flou'èr-deFlourish of trumpets, a trumpet-call, fan- is found in all the Romance languages, and lē, flou'ér-de-lús), n. [Fr. fleur de lis, flower fare, or prelude for one or more instruments has also passed into Icelandic, Swedish, and of the lily.) 1. In her, same as Fleur-de-lis. performed on the approach of any person Danish. The W. filur, bloom, filuraw, to blow, 2. In bot. the iris, a genus of monocotyledonof distinction; hence, any ostentatious pre- to bloom, are probably borrowed from the ous plants, the type of the family Iridacea. liminary sayings or doings. English. ] 1. In bot.the organs of reproduction See IRIS. Flourished (flu’risht), p. and a. In her. in a phenogamous plant. A complete flower Flowered (flou'érd), p. and a. Embellished flowered or adorned with trefoils, fleur-le- consists of stamens and pistils together with with figures of flowers. lis, &c. Called also Flory, Florette, Flurt, &c. two sets of leaves which surround and pro- Floweret (flou’ér-et), n. [Fr. fleurette, dim. Flourisher (flu'rish-ér), n. One who flour. tect them, the calyx and corolla. The stamens of fleur, a flower.) A small flower; a floret. ishes. and pistils are the essential organs of the Flower-fence (flou'ér-fens), n. A name first Flourishingly (flu’rish-ing-li), adv. In a flower. They occupy two circles or rows, the given to the plant Poinciana pulcherrima, flourishing manner; with tlourishes; osten- one within the other, the stamens being in from its having been used in the West tatiously. the outer row. The stamens consist of a stalk Indies in hetges, but afterwards extended Flour-mill (flour'mil), n. A mill for grind- or filament supporting a roundish body, the to all the species of the genns Poinciana. ing and sifting flour. anther, which is filled with a powdery sub- The name bastard flower-fence is given to Flour-packer (flour'pak-ér), n. A machine stance called the pollen. The pistil consists the species of the genus Adenanthera. for packing bags or barrels with flour. of a closed cell or ovary at the base, con- Flowerful (fou'ér-ful), a. Abounding with Floury (tlour'i), a. Consisting of or resem- taining ovules, and covered by a style which flowers. bling flour; covered with flour; as, your coat terminates in the stigma. These organs are Flower-garden (flou'ér-går-dn), n. A garden is floury surrounded by the corolla and calyx, which in which Howers chiefly are cultivated. Flout (flout), v.t. (Akin Goth. flautan, to together are called the floral envelope, or Flower-gentle (flou’ér-jen-tl), n. A popular vaunt; A. Sax. flitan, O. E. and Sc. flyte, slite, when they both display rich colouring the name for all the species of plants of the to scold.) To mock or insult; to treat with perianth. The leaves of the corolla are called genus Amarnthus, but more particularly contempt; to produce the feeling of disre- petals, and those of for A. tricolor, a Chinese species found in de spect or degradation toward. the calyx sepals. Some our gardens, and remarkable for the vivid colours of its foliage. Flower-head (flou’ér-hed), n. In bot. the capitulum, or that mode of inflorescence in Flout (flout), v.i. To practise mocking; to have the calyx but are which all the flowers are sessile upon a reBneer; to behave with contempt: often with without the corolla, ceptacle, as in the daisy. See first cut under at. Never flout at me.' Shak • Fleer and are called mono DISC, 3. (c). and gibe, and laugh and flout.' Sicist. chlamydeous. Flowers Floweriness (flou'ér-i-nes), n. 1. The state Flout (flout), n. A mock; an insult. are generally bisexual, of being flowery, or of abounding with Wherefore wail for one, but some plants have flowers. – 2. Floridness of speech; abundWho put your beauty to this flout and scorn! unisexual flowers; that Complete Flower. ance of figures. Flowering (tlou'ér-ing), p. and a. Having One who flouts and flower and the stamens in another. The or producing flowers. -- Flowering plants, flings; a mocker. figure shows the flower of Cheiranthus Cheiri (a) Phenogamous plants, or plants which Floutingly (flout'ing-li), adv. With flout. (wallflower): a, peduncle: b, calyx; c, co- produce flowers, as opposed to cryptogamous ing; insuliingly. rolla; d, stamens; e, pistil. – Pedunculate or flowerless planto. (0) Plants cultivated Flouting-stock (flout'ing-stok), n. An ob flower, one supported on a flower - stalk for their flowers rather than for their fruit, ject of flouting or ridicule; a laughing-stock. or peduncle. See PEDUNCULATE. - Sessile as garden border- plants, as opposed to Shak. flower, one without a peduncle. See SES- vegetables Flow (fló), v.i. [A. Sax. flowan, to flow. Cog. SILE. - Fertile or female slower, one hav- Flowering - ash (flou'èr-ing-ash), n. The D vloeijen, to flow; 0.1. G. slawan, to wash; ing pistils. – Male or sterile flower, one common name of Ornus europæa, nat. order Skr. plu, to flow; to swim.) 1.To move along having stamens only. - Hermaphrodite or Oleacea, a deciduous tree, a native of an inclined plane or on descending ground perfect flower, one having both stamens and Southern Europe, common in our arboreby the operation of gravity, and with a con- pistils. See INFLORESCENCE. - Artificial tums. It yields the saccharine substance tinual change of place among the particles jlowers, imitations of natural flowers, worn called manna. or parts, as a fluid; as, rivers flow from as ornaments in the hair, in bonnets, &c. Flowering-fern (flou'èr-ing-fern), n. The springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes. 2. In popular language, the delicate and popular name of Osmunda regalis, nat. 2. To melt; to become liquid. gaily-coloured leaves or petals on a plant; order Osmundaceæ. It is the noblest and That the mountains might slow down at thy presence. a circle of leayes or leaflets of some other most striking of our ferns, and grows in IS. Ixiv. 1. colour than green; a blossom.---3. The early boggy places and wet margins of woods. 3. To proceed; to issue; as, evils flow from part of life or of manhood; the prime; It derives its name from the upper pinne different sources; wealth flows from indus youthful vigour; youth; as, the flower of age try and economy.-4. To abound; to have or of life. - 4. The best or finest part of a or be in abundance; to be full; to be copious; thing; the most valuable part; as, young, to be crowded; as, flowing cups or goblets. vigorous, and brave men are the flower of a In that day the mountains shall drop down new nation. wine, and the hills shall floru with milk. Joel iii. 18. The choice and fiorver of all things profitable the The dry streets flow'd with men. Chapman. Psalms do more briefly contain. Hocker. 5. To glide along smoothly, without harsh- 5. A figure of speech; an ornament of style. ness or asperity; as, a slowing period; jiow- 6. The finest part of grain pulverized. In ing numbers.-6. To be smooth or pleasant this sense it is now always written Flour to the ear; to be easily or smoothly uttered (which see).-7. pl. (a) In chem. fine particles by the tongue. of bodies, especially when raised by fire in Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters. sublimation, and adhering to the heads of Dryden. vessels in the form of a powder or mealy 7. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing substance; as, the flowers of sulphur. (6) The mantle; flowing locks. menstrual discharge. (C) In printing, orThe imperial purple flowing in his train. namental types for borders of pages, cards, A. Hamilton. and the like. 8. To rise, as the tide: opposed to ebb; as, the Flower (flou'ér), v.i. (From the noun.) 1. To tide flores twice in twenty-four hours. - 9. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as move in the arteries and veins of the body; a plant; to produce flowers. -2. To be in the to circulate, as blood. – 10. To discharge prime and spring of life; to flourish; to be blood in excess from the uterus. youthful, fresh, and vigorous; to come into Flow (flo), v. t. 1. To cover with water; to the finest or fairest condition. When overflow; to inundate; as, the low grounds flowered my youthful spring.' Spenser. Flowering-fern (Osmunda regalis). along the river are annually flowed. -2. To 3. To froth; to ferment gently; to mantle, cover with varnish. as new beer. Flow (Ho), n. of the fronds being transformed into a hand1. A stream of water or other The beer did flower a little. Bacon. some panicle covered with sporangia. fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow 4. To come as cream from the surface. of blood. --2. The rise of the tide.-3. Abun Flowering-rush (flou'ér-ing-rush), n. The dance; copiousness; as, a flow of spirits. If you can accept of these few observations, which common name of Butomus umbellatus, nat. have plovered off, and are, as it were, the burnishing order Butomacea, a beautiful plant found 4. Any gentle procedure or movement, as of of many studious and contemplative years, I here in pools and wet ditches of England and thought, language, and the like, resembling give you them to dispose of. Alillor:. Ireland, but rare in Scotland. It is conin undisturbed and even movement the flow sidered the handsomest herbaceous plant of of a river, and denoting a copious supply: Flower (fou'èr), v.t. 1. To embellish with figures of tlowers; to adorn with imitated the British flora. The leaves are 2 to 3 feet outpouring; stream. flowers.--2. To cause to blossom. Quart. Rer. long, linear, triangular, their sharp edges The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope. Flowerage (flou'èr-aj), n. State of flowers; sometimes cutting the mouths of cattle, 5. A watery moss; a flow-bog. (Scotch.) flowers in general. whence their generic name Butomus (oxFlowage (Ho'aj), n. Act of flowing; state of Flower-bearing (flou'ér-bär-ing), a. Pro- cutting). The scape or flowering stem is being flowed. ducing flowers. longer than the leaves, terminating in a large Flow-bog, Flow-moss (flö'bog, fo'mos), n. Flower-bud (flou'ér-bud), n. The bud which umbel of rose-coloured flowers, readily disA peat-bog the surface of which is liable to produces a flower. tinguished from those of all other British rise and fall with every increase or diminu. Flower-clock (flou'ér-klok), n. A contriy- plants by having nine stamens, six in an tion of water, from rains or springs. ance for measuring time by means of flowers outer, and three in an inner row. Flower (fiou'ér), 10. (O. E. four, floure, from that open and shut at certain hours of the Flower-inwoven (flou'ér-in-wov-n), a. 0. Fr. flour, jlur, Mod. Fr. fleur, from L. flos, day. Adorned with flowers; interwoven with that floris, a flower. E. flour is really the same word Flower - crowned (flou'ér-kround), a. which is adorned. 'Flower-inwoven tresses." though it has taken a different signification Crowned with flowers. Milton. |