FLOWER-LEAF 300 FLUMMERY Flower-leaf (flou'ér-lēf), n. The leaf of a as on waves; to move now in one direction priming in the lock-pan of a gun, while the flower; a petal. and now in another; to be wavering or un- gun itself does not go off; fig. any ineffectual, Flowerless (flou'ér-les), a. Having no steady; to be irresolute; to rise and fall; to short, spasmodic effort which dies in the flowers; specifically, in bot, applied to cryp- be in an unsettled state; as, public opinion attempt; a flash in the pan. (Scotch. } togamous plants, as opposed to phenogamous often fluctuates; men often fluctuate be- Fluff (fuf), n. Light down or nap such as or flowering plants. tween different parties and opinions; the rises from beds, cotton, &c., when agitated; Flowerlessness (flou'ér-les-nes), n. State funds or the prices of stocks fluctuate with flue. See FLEW, FLUE. or quality of being without flowers. the events of the day. Fluff-gib (fluf'jib), n. A squib. [Scotch. ] Flower-maker (fou'èr-māk-ėr), n. A maker The tempter, .: as to passion mov'd Fluffy (fluf'i), a. Composed of, containing, of artificial flowers. Fluctuates disturbed. Millon. or resembling fluff or loose flocculent matFlower-piece (flou'èr-pēs), n. A painting They (maidens) to and fro ter, as nap or down; giving off loose floator picture of flowers. Fluctuated, as flowers in storin. Tennyson. ing particles when agitated; fluey. “The Flower-pot (flou'ér-pot), n. A pot in which SYN. To wave, oscillate, undulate, waver, carpets were fluffy.' Thackeray. flowering-plants or shrubs are grown, gener- vacillate, hesitate, scruple. It was the solid compressed weight of gold comally made of burned clay, unglazed, taper- Fluctuate (fluk'tū-át), v.t. To put into a pared with the fluffy bulk of feathers. ing a little towards the bottom, which is state of fluctuating or wave-like motion. Cornhill Mag. perforated with one or more holes. A breeze began to tremble o'er Flugelman. See FUGLEMAN. Flower-show (flou'ér-sho), n. An exhibition The large leaves of the sycamore Flught (flucht), v.i. To flutter; to flaunt. of flowers, generally competitive. And fluctuate all the still perfume. Tennyson (Scotch.) Flower-stalk (flou'ér-stąk), n. In bot. the Fluctuating (fluk’tū-at-ing), p. and a. Way Fluid (tlū'id), a. (L. fluidus, from fluo, to peduncle of a plant, or the stem that sup- ering; rolling as a wave; moving in this and flow.) Consisting of particles which move ports the flower or fructification. that direction; rising and falling; unsteady; and change their relative position without Flower-work (flou'ér-werk), n. Imitation of changeable; as, we have little confidence in separation on the slightest pressure; capable flowers; natural or artificial flowers arranged fluctuating opinions. of flowing; liquid or gaseous; as, water and for ornament. Fluctuation (fluk-tu-ā'shon), (L. fluctu air are fluid substances. - Fluid lens, a lens Flowery (flou'ér-i), a. 1. Full of flowers; atio, from fluctuo. See FLUCTUATE.] 1. A made by confining a liquid between two abounding with blossoms; as, a flowery field. motion like that of waves; a moving in this curved pieces of glass. 2. Adorned with artificial flowers, or the and that direction; as, the fluctuations of Fluid (Mū'id), n. A body whose particles figures of blossoms.-3. Richly embellished the sea. —2. A rising and falling suddenly; on the slightest pressure move and change with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery a wavering; unsteadiness; as, the fluctua their relative position without separation; style. tions of prices or of the funds; fluctuations a body which yields to the slightest presFlowery-kirtled (flou'è -ri - kér-tld), a. of opinion. — 3. In med. the perceptible sure; a liquid or gas: opposed to a solid; as, Adorned with garlands of flowers. 'Flowery- motion communicated to pus or other fluids air, water, blood, chyle, are fluids. Fluids kirtled Naiades. Milton. by pressure or percussion. are divided into liquids, such as water and Flowing (flo'ing), p. and a. 1. Moving as a bodies in the form of water; and gaseous Flue (flū), n. (Comp. 0. Fr. flue, a flowing, fluid ; issuing; proceeding. — 2. Abounding; from L. Nuo, to flow. Skeat takes it from bodies, or aeriform fluids. Liquids have been inundating.-3. Fluent; smooth, as style; 0. Fr. fleute, a flute, the beak of a retort.) also termed non-elastic fluids, for although smoothly undulating, as a line. — Flowing 1. A passage for smoke in a chimney, lead they are not altogether void of elasticity, sheets (naut.), the position of the sheets, or ing from the fireplace to the top of the they possess it only in a small degree. Air and aeriform bodies have been called elastic lower corners of the principal sails, when chimney, or into another passage. - 2. A they are loosened to the wind, so as to pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in fluids on account of their great elasticity. receive it into their cavities, in a direction certain kinds of steam-boilers. - 3. A pas -Fluid of Cotunnius, a thin gelatinous more nearly perpendicular than when they sage in a wall for the purpose of conducting fluid found in the bony cavity of the labyare close-hauled, although more obliquely heat from one part of a building to another. rinth of the ear, so called from the anatomist than when the vessel is sailing before the Flue (flû), v.i. To expand or splay, as the who first distinctly described it.- Fluid comwind. jambs of a window. pass, a compass, the card of which revolves Flowingly (flo'ing-li), adv. In a flowing Flue (flû), n. (Probably connected with in a bowl of alcohol on which it floats. manner; smoothly; with volubility; with Auff, G. flau, soft.) Soft down or fur; very Fluidity (flū-id'i-ti), n. The quality of being abundance. fine hair; flew. fluid, or capable of flowing; that quality of Flowingness (flo'ing-nes), n. Quality of Flue (flü), n. A money of account of Morocco a body which renders it impressible to the being flowing or fluent; fluency; smooth- of the value of 4th part of a penny sterling. slightest force, and by which the particles ness of diction; stream of diction. Flue-boiler (flu boil-er), n. A steam-boiler easily move or change their relative position Flowk (touk), n. A local name of the with flues running through the part that without a separation of the mass; a liquid, flounder. See FLUKE. contains the water. aeriform, or gaseous state: opposed to solidFlow-moss (flo'mos). See FLOW-BOG. Fluellen, Fluellin (Mū-ellen, flū-ellin), n. ity. Flown (flon), pp. of verb to fly: often with (Comp. D. fluweel, velvet, fluveelbloem, am Fluidize (flū'id-iz), v.t. To convert into a verb to be as auxiliary. Gone away; de fluid. aranth.) The popular name of two British parted. Was reason flown.' Prior. plants, the one Linaria spuria, or male Fluidness (flū’id-nes), n. The state of being Flown (flon), pp. of verb to flow. Filled Huellen, and the other Veronica Chamædrys, fluid; fluidity (which see). quite full; flushed. or female fluellin. Both plants have soft Flukan. See FLUCAN. Fluke (flūk), n. (A non-nasalized form cor- Fluellite (flū'el-līt), 1 (E. fluor, and Gr. responding to G. flunk, a wing, the fluke of Millon. lithos, a stone.) A compound of fluoric acid an anchor; comp. also Sw.flik, Dan. flig, a Some critics have supposed that flown in this and alumina which occurs at Stenna-gwyn flap or lappet; Dan. anker-flig, anchor-tluke.] passage is a corruption for blown. Warton in Cornwall in octahedral crystals. It is a 1. The part of an anchor which fastens in reads swoln. fluoride of aluminium. the ground. See ANCHOR. --2. In mining, Flowretry (flou'ret-ri), n. (From flowret, Fluencet (flū'ens), n. Fluency. Milton. an instrument used in cleaning a hole preon type of musketry from musket.] Carved Fluency (tlū'en-si), n. (L. fuentia, a flowing, vious to its being charged with powder for work representing flowers. fluency, from fluens, fluentis, ppr. of fluo, to blasting.-3. One of the two triangular divi. Floxed-silkt (floxt'silk), n. The same as flow.) The quality of being fluent; smooth sions constituting the tail of a whale: so Flo88-silk. ness; readiness of utterance; volubility; afflu named from their resemblance to the fluke Floyt, t n. A flute. ence; abundance. of an anchor.--4. In billiards, an accidental Fluate (flū'āt), n. (From fluor (which see). Fluent (flü'ent), a. (L. fluens, fluentis. See successful stroke; the advantage gained In chem, a salt once supposed to be formed FLUENCY.) 1. Flowing or capable of flow when, playing for one thing, one gets anby the combination of fluoric acid with a me- ing; liquid; gliding: passing; current. Mo other; hence, any unexpected or accidental tallic oxide, an earth, or alkali; as, fluate of tion being a fuent thing.' Ray.-2. Ready advantage. alumina or soda. They are properly fluorides. in the use of words; voluble; copious; having We seem to have discovered, as it were by a fluke, Flucan, Flukan (flū’kan), n. 1. In mineral. words at command and uttering them with a most excellent rule for all future cabinet arrangements, Times Newspaper. an earth or clay of a slimy glutinous consis- facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker. tence, in colour for the most part blue or 3. Voluble; smooth; as, fluent speech. Fluke, Flowk (flök), n. (A. Sax. floc, flooc, white, or a mixture of both.-2. A provin- Mr. Swinburne's words are in themselves more a flat-fish.) A founder. (Scotch and Procial, especially Cornish, name for an inter- horrible than Shelley's; but the expression of the vincial English.) ruption or shifting of a lode of ore caused passage is too fruent for strong feeling. Quart. Rev. Fluke, Fluke-worm (flūk, flūk'werm), n. by a cross vein or fissure; a cross-course or Fluent (fiū'ent), n. 1.1 A stream; a current Distoina hepaticum, a species of entozoa transverse vein composed of clay. of water. Philips.—2. In math. the variable which infests the ducts of the liver of vaFluctiferous (fluk-tiffér-us), a. (L. fluctus, or flowing quantity in fluxions which is con- rious animals, especially those of the sheep. a wave, and fero, to produce.) Producing tinually increasing or decreasing, whether it See DISTOMA. or tending to produce waves. Blount. be line, surface, solid, &c.; an integral. Fluky (flūk'i), a. Formed like or having a Fluctisonous (fluk-ti'son-us), a. (L. fluctus, Fluently (fu'ent-li), adv. In a fluent man- fluke. a wave, and sono, to sound.) Sounding as ner; with ready flow; volubly; without hesi- Flume (flūm), n. (A. Sax. flum, a stream, waves. Bailey. tation or obstruction; as, to speak fluently. from L. flumen, from fluo, to flow; or it may Fluctuability (Auk'tū- a-bil"i-ti), n. The Fluentness (flū'ent-nes), n. State of being be from A. Sax. flóvan, to flow, and conquality of being fluctuable. [Rare.] fluent; fluency. (Rare.) nected with N. flauma, to flow.) Lit. a flow. Fluctuable (fluk'tū-a-bl), a. Capable of Flue-plate (flū'plăt), n. In steam-boilers, a ing; the passage or channel for the water fluctuating; liable to fluctuation. plate in which the ends of flues or tubes are that drives a mill-wheel; an artificial chanFluctuant (fluk'tü-ant), a. (L. fluctuans, set. Called also Tube-plate and Tube-sheet. nel for gold-washing. fluctuantis, ppr. of fluctuo. See FLUCTUATE.) Flue-surface (flū'ser-fās), n. The portion Flume-bridge, Flume-stop (flūm'brij, Moving like a wave; wavering; unsteady. of the surface of a steam-boiler heated by flūm'stop), n. Same as FIRE-BRIDGE. Fluctuate (fluk'tū-át), v.i. pret. & pp. fluc- flues, as distinguished from that part which Fluminous (flü'min-us), a. Pertaining to tuated; ppr. fluctuating. (L. fluctuo, fluc- is heated directly by the furnace. rivers; abounding in rivers. Goodrich, tuatum, from fluctus, a wave, from fluo, to Fluey (flū'i), a. Resembling or containing Flummery (flum'mė-ri), n. [W. lluiry flow.) 1. To move as a wave; to roll hither flue or loose fur or soft down; downy; fluffy. (from llynyr, harsh, raw, crude, from llym, and thither; to wave; as, a fluctuating field Fluff (fluf), n. [Onomatopoetic.) A puff. sharp, severe), a kind of food made of oatof air. -2. To float backward and forward, (Scotch.) – Fluff in the pan, explosion of meal steeped in water until it has turned FLUMMOX 301 FLUTE sour.) 1. A sort of jelly made of flour or process in which the salts of fluoric acid ing with copious supplies of water; as, to meal; pap. are employed for the purpose of producing flush a sewer, a lane, &c.-4. In sporting, to Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke. pictures by the agency of light. cause to start up or fly off; to spring; as, to 2. Anything insipid or not to the purpose; Fluorous (flü'or-us), a. Obtained from or flush a woodcock. --- To flush up, in brickluy. mere flattery; empty compliment; nonsense. containing fluor. 'ing, to fill up the vertical joints of brick Flummox, Flummux (Mum'moks, flum' Fluor-spar (flü'or-spår), n. (CaF.) A common with mortar. See FLUSH, a. 4. muks), v.t. [Used in various English dia mineral found in great beauty in Derbyshire; Flush (flush), a. (The origin of this word hence it is known in this country under the lects.) To perplex; to embarrass; to hinder; or its connection with the verb is not very to bewilder; to defeat. (Slang. ) name of Derbyshire Spar. It generally occurs clear.] 1. Fresh; full of vigour; glowing; Flung (flung), pret. & pp. of ming. massive, but crystallizes in simple forms of bright. “Flush as May.' Shak. - 2. Rich Flunk (flungk), v.i. [Probably a form of the monometric system-viz. the cube, octa- in blossom; exuberant. 'On this flush pomefunk. Comp. Sc. flunk, a lazy lounging hedron, dodecahedron, &c., and in combina granate bough.' Keats. -- 3. Well-supplied tions of the cube and octahedron. Pure person, to flunk, to squat down.) To fail, with money; having full pockets; as, to be as in a lesson; to retire through fear; to fluor-spar contains 487 per cent. fluorine, quite flush. [Slang. ) back out. (United States.) 513 calcium. It is of frequent occurrence, Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot, especially in connection with metalliferous Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you plunk 4. Having the surface even or level with beds, as of silver, tin, lead, and cobalt ores, out before we begin. 3. C. Neal, the adjacent surface: in this sense much Flunk (flungk), n. A failure or backing bourhood of Freiberg and in the Harz. It used by builders, carpenters, &c., and apout. (United States.) is sometimes colourless and transparent, plied to surfaces which are so placed; for Flunkey, Flunky (flungki), n. [L. G. flun. but more frequently it exhibits tints of example, the panel of a door is said to be kern, to flaunt; D. flonkeren, flinkeren, to yellow, green, blue, and red. From the flush, when fixed level with the margin, and glitter; comp. A. Sax. ulanc, proud.) 1. A general prevalence of a blue tint in the not sunk below it.-5. In the game of cribmale servant in livery.-2. A term of con Derbyshire specimens it is there known as bage, consisting of cards of the same suit; tempt for one who is inean and base-spirited; Blue-john. It is often beautifully banded, as, a flush hand. - Bead and flush work, and a cringing flatterer and servile imitator of especially when in nodules, which are much bead, flush, and square work. See under the aristocracy; a male toady; a snob. prized for the manufacture of vases, and BEAD.-A flush deck (naut.) is a deck withI don't frequent operas and parties in London like occasionally used for beads, brooch-stones, out a half-deck or forecastle. you young flunkies of the aristocracy. Thackeray. and other ornamental purposes. The term Flush (flush), n. 1. A sudden flow of blood 3. In the United States, a term among fluor is derived from the fusibility of this to the face; or more generally, the redness stockbrokers for a person who, unac substance, on which account it is sometimes of face which proceeds from such an afflux quainted with the manner in which stocks used as a flux to promote the fusion of of blood; as, her face was suffused with a are bought and sold, and deceived by ap- certain refractory minerals. It is manufac. crimson flush. --2. Hence, any warm colourpearances, makes bad investments or loses tured at Matlock and Derby into a great ing or glow, as the reddening of the sky his money variety of articles, chiefly ornamental, and before daybreak. Flunkeydom, Flunkydom (flungk'i-dum), was held in high esteem by the ancients for See how calm he looks and stately, 12. Like a warrior on his shield, 1. Flunkeys collectively. -2. The grade the same purpose, being the material of the or condition of flunkeys. original myrrhine vessels. Its specific gra Waiting till the fiush of morning Breaks along the battle-field. Aytorn. Flunkeyism, Flunkyism (flung'ki-izm), n. vity is 3-14, but it is of very inferior hardThe character or quality of a flunkey; ser- ness, being scratchable by quartz. 3. Sudden impulse or excitement; sudden vility; toadyism. Fluosilicate (tlu-o-sil'i-kåt), n. (Fluor and thrill or shock, as of feeling; as, a flush of Fluoborate (flû-o-bor'āt), n. A compound silex or silica) In chem. a compound of joy.-4. Bloom; growth; abundance. of fluoboric acid with a base. fluosilicic acid with some base. But all the blooming flush of life is fled. Goldsmith. Fluoboric (flū-o-bor'ik), a. Derived from, Fluosilicic (tlū’o-sil-is"'ik), a. Composed of 5. A rush or flow, as of a jet or stream of or consisting of fluorin and boron.-- Fluo- or derived from silicon and fluorine.-Fluo- water. “In manner of a wave or jush.' Ray. boric acid (HBO,. 3HF), an oily liquid, like silicic acid, an acid composed of silicon and 6. In the game of cribbage, a run of cards of oil of vitriol, which fumes in the air, boils at fluorine, It is a gas, and may be obtained the same suit.-7. A flock of birds suddenly a temperature of 100° C., and distils with- by applying a gentle heat to a mixture started or flushed. out alteration. As a gas it is colourless, of one part of powdered fluor-spar, one of Flush (flush), adv. In a manner so as to be has a penetrating pungent odour, and ex- silica, and two of sulphuric acid, in a retort. even or level with. tinguishes flame on the instant. It forms It is colourless, pungent, fumes when it Flusher (flush'ér), n. (From the reddishsalts with alkalies, which are termed fluo- escapes into a humid air, and is rapidly brown colour of the head and upper parts borates. It has a singularly great affinity absorbed by water. of the body.) The red-backed shrike or for water It may be obtained in a gaseous Fluo-tantalic (flū’o-tan-tal"ik), n. An acid lesser butcher-bird (Lanius collurio); also form by heating to redness boracic acid and obtained by treating tantalum with fluoric called Flasher, powdered fluor-spar. acid, Flushing (flush'ing), n. 1. A glow of red, as in Fluopiosphate (flū-o-fos'fāt), n. A comFluo-titanic (flūo-ti-tan"ik), a. In chem. the face; as, the disease is characterized by pound forme by the union of fluoric and obtained from tantalum and fluorine. frequent flushings of the face.-2. In weavphosphoric acids with a base. Flur-bird (fler bérd), n. A decoy-bird. Gold- ing, a thread which, in the process of twillFluor (Alū'or), n. (L.L., from fluo, to flow.) smith. ing, spans several threads of the warp with1. A fluid state.-2. Menstrual flux.-3. In Flurried (flu'rid), p. and a. Put in agita- out intersection; a floating. mineral, fluor-spar (which see). -- Fluor tion; agitated; discomposed; excited; as, a Flushingly (flush'ing-li), adv. In a flushing albus (lit. white discharge), in med. whites flurried manner. manner. or leucorrhea: a disease of women. Flurry (flu'ri), n. [Of doubtful origin and con- Flushness (flush'nes), n. State of being Fluorated (flü'or-at-ed), a. In chem. com nections, probably onomatopoetic. Comp. flush; freshness; abundance. bined with hydrofluoric acid. See HYDRO- hurry, hurry-skurry.] 1. A sudden blast or Whose interest it is, like hernshaws, to hide the FLUORIC. gust, or a light temporary breeze; as, a meagerness of their bodies by the flushness of their Fluorescence (flū-or-es'sens), n. A name Bp. Gauden. given to the phenomena presented by the duration. Fluster (flus'tér), v.t. (Akin to bluster; invisible chemical rays of the blue end of And, like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind of comp. Icel. O.N. flaustr, precipitancy, overthe solar spectrum when they become lumin December, haste.) To make hot and rosy, as with Swift and sudden and keen came a flight of feathery ous by being sent through uranium glass, hongfellon. drinking; to heat; to hurry; to agitate; to or solutions of quinine, horse-chestnut bark, confuse. or Datura Stramonium. In this way green 3. Agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. But once in life was flustered with new wine.' Tennyson. crystals, as of fluor-spar, may give out blue Flurry (flu’ri), v.t. To put in agitation; to excite or alarm. rays, due not to the colour of the surface Flurry (furri), a. Fluster (flus'ter), v.i. To be in a heat or In her. the same as bustle; to be agitated. of the body, but to its power of modifying Fleury. Fluster (flus'ter), 1. Heat; glow; agitation; the rays incident on it. Flurt (flért), n. A flirt. Quarles. Fluorescent (flû-or-es'sent), a. Possessing Flush (flush), v.i. [Comp. 'D. fluysen; Prov. confusion; disorder. Flusteration (flus-ter-a'shon), n. The act the quality of fluorescence; pertaining to Dan. fìuse, to flow with violence; O.H.G. of flustering or the state of being flustered; fluorescence. Fluorhydric (flū-or-hi'drik), a. heat; hurry; confusion. (Vulgar.) Same as fuizan, to flow. The word blush may have Hydrofluoric (which see). had some influence on the word.] 1. To flow Flustra (flus'tra), n. [A. Sax. jlustrian, to Fluoric (flú-or'ik), a. weave.) The sea-mat, a genus of Bryozoa. and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood Pertaining to fluor; obtained from fluor. flushes into the face.-2. To come in haste; It is common on almost every coast, and is It is found thrown up among sea-weeds. Fluoride (flū'or-id), n. In chem. a compound to start; to fly out suddenly, as a bird disobtained by heating hydrofluoric acid with turbed. 'Flushing from one spray unto flat and variously divided, of a pale brown another.' Sir T. Broune.-3. To become colour, and, when examined, the surface is certain metals, by the action of that acid found to be covered with a kind of net-work on metallic oxides or carbonates, by heating suffused; to become suddenly red; to glow. of quadrangular cells, having minute teeth electro-negative metals, as antimony, with Then flushed her cheek with rosy light. Tennyson. at the angles. When living these cells are fluoride of lead or fluoride of mercury, and 4. To be gay, splendid, or beautiful. fitted with polypi, each having a mouth in other ways. At once, arrayed fringed with tentacles. Fluorin, Fluorine (flū'or-in), n. At. wt. 19; In all the colours of the fiushing year, Flustradæ (tlus'tra-dē), n. pl. A family of The garden glows. Thomson. sym. F. An element existing in flour-spar, Bryozoa, having the polyzoary fat, flexible, of which in a free state we know but little, Flush (flush), v. t. 1. To cause to blush; to leafy, erect, and covered with many minute as its isolation is a matter of great difficulty. redden suddenly; to cause the blood to rush cells. Popularly they are known as seaCombined with calcium it forms fluoride of suddenly into the face; to colour. mats. On account of their peculiar scent calcium; with hydrogen it forms hydro- Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay. they are sometimes called lemon-weeds. fluoric acid How faintly firshed, how phantom fair, Flute (flút), n. [Fr. flúte, 0. Fr. flaute, a verFluoroid (flü'or-oid), n. (Fluor, and Gr. Was Monte Rosa, hanging there. Tennyson. bal substantive from an ancient verb flaüter, eidos, appearance.) In crystal.' a crystal 2. To elate; to elevate; to excite the spirits from a L. L. verb flatuare (giving flautare by contained under twenty-four triangles: so of; to animate with joy. “The Whigs , metathesis), from L. fatus, a blowing, from called because a frequent form in fluor-spar. flushed with victory and prosperity. Mac- L. flo, flatum, to blow.] 1. A portable musiFluorotype (flü'or-o-tip), n. In photog. a aulay.-3. To wash out or cleanse by drench- cal wind-instrument consisting of a taper arrows. FLUTE 302 FLY In a ing tube with six holes for the fingers, and Flutterer (fluttér-ér), n. One who flutters. termination of blood, or other humour, from one to fourteen keys which open other Flutteringly (tlut'ter-ing-li), adv. towards any organ with greater force than holes. The sound, which is soft and clear 1 fluttering manner. natural; a catarrh. -- 4. The running of in quality, is produced by blowing with the Flutter-wheel (flut’tér-whel), n. A water- metals into a fluid state; fusion. Craig.mouth into an oval aperture at the side of wheel of moderate size placed at the bottom 5. An indication constantly varying. the thick end of the instrument. Its useful of a chute: so called from its rapid motion. Less to be counted than the fiuxions of sun-dials. compass is about two and a half octaves, in- (United States.) De Quincey. cluding the chromatic tones. It is usually Fluty (tiüt'i), a. Soft and clear in tone, like 6. In math. (a) the infinitely small increase made in four pieces, and of box or ebony, a thute. of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain sometimes, however, of ivory, silver, or even Fluvial (flū'vi-al), a. [Fr., from L. fluvialis, infinitely small and constant period of time; of glass. - 2. A channel in a column or pillar; from plurius, a river, from sluo, to tiow.) a differential. (6) pl. The analysis of intina perpendicular furrow or cavity cut along Relating to rivers; fluviatic; Huviatile. itely small variable quantities, or a method the shaft of a column or pilaster: so called Fluviales (Hű-vi-alez), n. pl. An oriler of of finding an infinitely small quantity, which from its resemblance to a flute. When the aquatic monocotyledonous plants, otherwise being taken an infinite number of times flutes are partially filled up by a smaller called Naiudaccee. The most useful plant of becomes equal to a quantity given. In round moulding they are said to be cabled. this order is the Zostera marina or grass- fluxions, magnitudes are supposed to be It is used in the Ionic, Composite, Corinthian, wrack, which forms an excellent packing generated by motion; a line by the motion and Doric orders; but never in the Tuscan. for brittle ware; it is also platted into of a point, a surface by the motion of a line, 3. Any similar groove or channel in any mate. coverings for bottles and oil-tasks, and and a solid by the motion of a surface. The rial, as the channel in the muslin of a lady's sometimes used for filling mattresses and method of fluxions, first invented by Newmantle.-4. A long, thin French roll eaten at the like. ton, cloes not essentially differ from that breakfast. ---Armed in jlute, having the guns Fluvialist (flü'vi-al-ist), n. One who ex- employed in the differential calculus inof the lower tier and part of those of the plains geological phenomena by the action vented by Leibnitz, except in the notation. upper tier removed, as when used as a tran- of existing streams. Newton's notation was adhered to by English sport: said of a war-vessel. Fluviatic, Fluviatile (Au-vi-at'ik, flū'vi-a- writers up to the early part of the present Flute (flūt). v.i. pret. & pp. fluted; ppr. flut- til), a. (L. fluviaticus, fluviatilis, from century, but the differential calculus is now ing. To play on a flute; to whistle with a fluvius, a river, from fiuo, to flow. ] Belonging universally employed See DIFFERENTIAL. soit, clear note like that of a flute. to rivers; produced by river action; grow. | Fluxional, Fluxionary (fluk’shon-al, fluk'The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson, ing or living in fresh-water rivers ; fluvial; shop-a-ri), a. Pertaining to or solved by Flute (flūt), v.t. 1. To play or sing softly and as, fluviatile deposit; fluviatile plants. fluxions; variable; inconstant. clearly, in notes resembling those of a flute. Fluvicolina (flü'vi-ko-li”nē), n. pl. (L., lit. The merely human, the temporary and fluxional. river-frequenters-fluvius, a river, and colo, Coleridge. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness, Tennyson, to inhabit! The water-caps, a sub-family Fluxionary calculus, the method of of birds of the family Tyrannidæ: a synonym 2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a fluxions. --Fluxional or fluxionary analyof Alectrurine. column or rulle. sis, the analysis of fluxions and flowing qualiFluviomarine (flû'vi-6-ma-rēn"), a. [L. Flute (flūt), n. (A different orthography of tities, distinguishable from the differential float.) A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs fluvius, a river, and inarinus, marine, from calculus by its notation, though in all other mare, the sea ] In geol. a term applied to or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled respects the two methods are identical. such deposits as have been formed in estu- Fluxionist (fluk'shon-ist), n. One skilled in the middle. aries or on the bottom of the sea at a greater A bit used for piercFlute-bit (flutbit), n. in fluxions. or less distance from the embouchure by Fluxivet (fluks'iv), a. Flowing; wanting ing holes in hard Is, such as those of which flutes are made. rivers bearing with them the detritus of the See BIT, 7. solidity. land. Fluted (flūt'ed), p. and a. 1. Channelled; Their arguments are as fluxire as liquor spilt upon Flux (fluks), n. (Fr., from L. fluxus, from a table. B. Fonson. furrowed; as, a fluted column. --- 2. In music, fine; clear and mellow; tlute-like; as, sluted pluo, to tow. ] i. The act of flowing; the Fluxuret (fluks’ūr), n. 1. Quality of being motion or passing of a fluid. - 2. The moving notes. fluid. Fielding – 2. A flowing or fluid matter. Flute-like (fütlik), a. Resembling the or passing of anything in continued succes. sion; as, things, in this life, are in a continual Fly (fli), v. in pret, flew; ppflown; ppr. flynotes of a fute; clear and mellow; as, her flux.-3. Any flow or issue of matter; as, flute-like voice. ing. [A. Sax. fleogan, G. fliegen, Icel. fljúga, Flutenist (Ilūt'n-ist), n. A flute-player; a in med. (a) an extraordinary issue or eva- to fly. See FLEE] 1. To move through flutist (Rare.) cuation from the bowels or other part; as, air by the aid of wings, as birds. -- 2. To the bloody flux or dysentery; hepatic flux, Flute-player (ilut'plā-ér), n. A flutist. pass or move in air by the force of wind or Fluter (Ilūt'er), n. 1. A flutist. -2. One who &c. (6) That which flows or is discharged. other impulse; as, clouds and vapours fly 4. In hydrography, the flow of the tide, in makes grooves or flutes. before the wind; a ball flies from a cannon, Flute-stop (flüt'stop), n. In organs, a range opposition to the ebb, which is called reflux. an arrow from a bow. -- 3 To rise in air, as of wooden and metal pipes tuned in unison 5. In metul. any substance or mixture used light sulistances, by means of a current of to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, with the diapason, designed to imitate the air, or by having less specific gravity than as alkalies, borax, tartar, and other saline flute. air, as smoke. Flute-work (flūt'werk), n. The name given mat er; or in large operations, limestone or Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. fluor-spar. Alkaline fluxes are either the to a particular class of stops in organ-build Job v. 2 crude, the white, or the black flur. When 4. To move or pass with velocity or celerity, ing, in contradistinction to reed-work. tartar is deflagrated with half its weight of either on land or water; as, he flew to the Fluther (flu’tler), n. {A form of flutter.) nitre, a mixture of charcoal and carbonate relief of his listressed friend; the ship flies 1. Hurry; bustle. --2. Confusing abundance. of potash remains, which is often called upon the main.--5. To pass away; to de(Scotch.] black jlur; when an equal weight of nitre is part: with the idea of haste, swiftness, or Fluting (flūt'ing), n. 1. The act of forming used, the whole of the charcoal is burned escape; to run away; to flee; to escape; as, a groove, channel, or furrow. ---2. A groove, off, and carbonate of potassa remains, which, the bird has foun; swift fly the fieeting channel, or furrow; fiuted work; a flute; as, hours. the ¡lutings of a column; the flulings of a when thus procurel, is called white flux. lady's ruffle. 6. Fusion; a liquid state from the operation I'll fly from shepherds, flocks, and flowery plains. of heat.-7. Concourse; confluence. • The Pope Fluting-plane (flūt'ing-plān), n. a plane used in grooving flutes. Mlux of company.' Shak. (Rare.) 6. To become diffused or spread rapidly; to Flux t (fluks), a. Flowing; moving: main- pass quickly from mouth to mouth. Flutist (flūt'ist), n. A performer on the flute. tained by a constant succession of parts; in When did not rumours fly! Flutter (flutter), v.i. (A form of flitter, from Tennyson. constant; varialle. nit; allied to float. Cog. L.G. fluttern, G. The flux nature of all 7. To part suddenly or with violence; to things here." Barrow. jlattern, to flutter; D. Madderen, to hover.) burst in pieces, as a bottle.-8. To flutter; 1. To move or tap the wings rapidly, with: Flux (fluks), v. t. 1. To melt; to fuse; to make to vibrate or play, as a flag in the wind. fluid. out flying, or with short flights; to hover. White sails flying on the yellow sea. Tennyson, One part of mineral alkali will flux two of siliceous As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her earth with effervescence. Kirwan. - To jly about (naut.), to change frequently young, spreadeth abroad her wings. Deut. xxxii. 11. 2. In med. to cause a flux or evacuation during a short space of time: said of the 2. To move about briskly, irregularly, or from; to salivate; to purge. wind. -- To fly at, to spring toward; to rush with great bustle and show. He might so fashionably and genteelly have been on; to fall on suddenly; as, a hen flies at a No rag, no scrap of all the beau or wit, duelled or fiuxed into another world. South. dog or cat; a dog sies at a man.-- To fly at That once so flutteret, and that once so writ. Pope. the brook, to hawk at water-fowl. 3. To move with quick vibrations or undu- 'Twas he that gave our nation purges, Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook, lations; as, a fluttering fan; a futtering And fluxed the house of many a burgess. I saw not better sport these seven years day. Shak. sail. Hudibras. -- To fly in the face of, (a) to insult. (6) To Flags, flutler out upon turrets and towers. Fluxation (fluks-a'shon), n. A flowing or assail; to resist; to set at defiance; to op Tennyson. passing away, and giving place to others. pose with violence; to act in direct opposi4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; Fluxibility (fluks-i-bil'i-ti), n. The quality tion to. to fluctuate; to be in uncertainty; to hang of being fluxible or admitting fusion. Fly at nature's face, But how if nature fly in my face first? Dryden. - To my off. (a) to separate; to depart sudFlutter(flut'ter), v. t. 1. To agitate: to vibrate; Fluxibleness (fluks'i-bl-nes), n. Fluxibility. denly: to disappear. (6) To revolt. - To Ny as, the bird jlutters his pennons or pinions. [Rare] open, to open suddenly or with violence; as, 2. To disorder; to throw into confusion; to Fluxilet (fluks'il), a. Fluxible. the doors flew open. - To fly out, (a) to rush agitate. Fluxility (fluks-il'i-ti), n. [L. L. flurilis, from or dart out. () To burst into a passion. Like an eagle in a dove cote, I L. fluo, luxum, to flow.) The quality of ad- (c) To break out into license. (d) To start Flrterid your Volscians in Corioli. Skak. mitting fusion; possibility of being fused or or issue with violence from any direction. -Flutter (flutter), n. 1. Quick and irregular liquefied. To fly round or around, to be active, to motion vibration; undulation ; as, the Fluxion (fluk'shon), n. [L. Auxio, from fluo, show activity. [United States.)-- To let fly, putter of a fan.--2. Hurry; tumut; agita- to flow) 1. The act of flowing. -2. The (a) to discharge; to throw or drive with tion of the mind; confusion; disorder. matter that flows.-3. In med, a flow or de- violence; as, to let fly a shower of darts. In carp. success. FLY 303 FLYING-LEMUR () Naut. to let go suddenly; as, let Ny the I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play body of men, consisting of infantry and sheets. tricks, and to Ayblow my words, to make others dis cavalry, constantly in motion, with the obtaste them. Stilling Teet. Fly (fli), v.t. 1. To flee from; to shun; to ject of covering their own garrisons, or of avoid; to decline; as, to fly the sight of one Flyblow (fli'blo), v.i. To deposit eggs on keeping the enemy in constant alarm of a we hate. meat, as a fly. surprise; a flying-camp. Sleep flies the wretch. Dryden. So morning insects, that in muck begin, Flying-artillery (fli'ing-år-til-le-ri), n. Ar Shine, buz, and flyòlow in the setting sun. Pope. 2. To attack by a bird of prey, as by falcon tillery trained to very rapid evolutions, the or hawk. Flyblown (fli'blon), pp. or a. Tainted with men being either all mounted T CUSIf a man can tame this inonster, and with her ay maggots; hence, spoiled; impure. tomed to spring other ravening fowl, and kill them, it is somewhat Fly-board (fli'bord), n. In printing, the on the ammuworth. Bacon. board on which the printed sheets are laid nition chests 3. To cause to fly or float in the air. - To fly by the flier. when the pieces the kite, to obtain money on accommodation Fly-boat (Ali'bot), n. 1. A large flat-bot are to be dragbills: in allusion to tossing paper about as tomed Dutch vessel with a high stem; such ged from one children do a kite. [Commercial slang) boats are chiefly employed in the coasting part of the field Fly (fi), n. [A. Sax. fleôge, from fleògan, to fly; trade, and have a burden of from 400 to 600 to another. like G. Hiege, from fliegen.] 1. In zool. a tons. Flying - bridge winged insect of various species, whose dis- Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of dis (tli'ing-brij), n. covery to the north-west with two flie-boats, set forth tinguishing characteristics are that the See BRIDGE. by the Muscovie company. Purchas, Pilgrimage. wings are transparent and have no cases or Flying-butcovers. By these marks flies are distin2. A long narrow passage-boat, formerly tress (fli'ing guished from beetles, butterflies, grassmuch used on canals, but now almost en but-tres), n. In hoppers, &c. The true flies or Diptera have tirely superseded by railways and light Gothic arch. a steamers. Called also a Swift-boat. only two wings, viz. the anterior pair. In buttress in the common language, fly is the house-fly, of Fly-book (fli'buk), n. A case in the form of form of an arch the genus Musca. a book for keeping fishing flies in. springing from Fly-boy (fli'boi), n. The boy in a printingBeing a 'popular name'the people have a right to a solid mass of office who lifts the printed sheets off the mean what they choose by it, and they avail thein masonry, as the selves of the right. Thus the fly of the farnier is press: so named because he catches the top of a sideusually the little hopping turnip-beetle; the fly of the sheets as they fly from the tympan. aisle buttress, hop.grower is an aphis; the fly of the herdsman a Fly-cap (fli’kap), n. A cap, or head-dress and gad; while to the citizen almost anything to be seen abutting formerly worn by elderly ladies, formed with wings is a fly. There are some, again, to whom against and flies are flies, one fly the fly, the common well-known like two crescents conjoined, and, by means serving to suplittle black house-fly. Here at least is something of wire, made to stand quite out from the port another definite. No, not even now; for these will, at least, cushion on which the hair was dressed. Its claim their young house-fly, and their full-grown part of the name seems to have been formed from the house.fly, and expect you to believe that late in the structure, as the year their house-ly takes to biting you, little dreainresemblance of its sides to wings. wall of a clereing that the little fly, and the big fly, and the fly Fly-case (fli'kās), n. A case or covering of which bites you, not only are different species but story, in which an insect; specifically, the anterior wings of Flying buttress, Beverley even belong to different genera; that the little fly case it acts as Minster. beetles, so hardened as to cover the whole never grows big, that the big fly never was little, and a counterpoise that their house.fly could not bite you if he would. upper part of the body concealing the second against the vaulting of the central pile: 80 E. F. Stavely. pair of wings; elytra. 2. In mech. an arrangement of vanes upon named from its passing through the air, Flycatcher (fli'kach-er) n. 1. One that Flying-camp, n. a revolving axis to regulate the motion hunts flies. — 2. In zool. the English name of Flying-dragon (Ali'ing-dra-gon), !!. See FLYING-ARMY. 1. See of clock-work by the impact of the vanes the birds of the genus Muscicapa, of the DRAGON. -2. (Scotch.) A paper kite. against the air; a fanner: now chiefly used Flying Dutchman (Ai'ing duch'man), n. in musical boxes and the striking parts of 1. A legendary Dutch captain who for some clock machinery. The same name is also heinous offence was condemned to sail the applied to other contrivances for regulating sea, beating against head winds, till the day the motion of machinery, as to cross-arms, of judgment. One form of the legend has loaded at the ends with heavy weights, and it that a horrible murder had been complaced at right angles to the axis of a wind mitted on board his ship; another, that he lass, jack, or the like; and to a fly-wheel. swore a profane oath that he would weather See FLY-WHEEL.- 3. In printing, same as the Cape of Good Hope, though he should Flier, 6. – 4. In weaving, a shuttle with beat there till the last day. He sometimes wheels driven through the shed by a blow hails vessels through his trumpet and reor jerk.-5. In kenitting machines, a piece for quests them to take letters home from him. holding the needle in position while passing The legend is supposed to have originated through a new loop: also called a Latch. in the sight of some ship reflected from the 6. In spinning, one of the arms that revolve round the bobbin in a spinning-frame, and White-collared Flycatcher (Muscicapa albicollis). clouds. —2. The vessel commanded by this captain. twist the yarn as it is wound on the bobbin. order of Insessores, tribe Dentirostres, and Flying-fish (fli'ing-fish), n. A name common See FLIER, 3.-7. That part of a vane which family Muscicapide, with a bill flattened at to all those fishes of the families Scomberpoints and shows which way the wind blows. the base, almost triangular, notched at the esocidæ and Sclerogenidæ, which have the 8. The extent of an ensign, flag, or pendant upper mandible, and beset with bristles. power of sustaining themselves for a time from the staff to the end that flutters loose The birds which constitute this genus are in the air by means of their large pectoral in the wind.-9. A light carriage formed for exceedingly numerous, and widely distri- fins. Generally, however, the name is limited rapid motion; a hackney coach; a cab. - buted over the globe. They are in many 10. A hook dressed so as to resemble a fly places of great use in destroying noxious or other insect used by anglers to catch fish. insects. In habits they are solitary and 11. In a theatre, a gallery running along untamable. They perch on the highest the side of the stage at a high level, where branches of trees, where they remain imthe ropes for drawing up parts of the scenes, movable watching for insects, only leaving &c., are worked. -12. A familiar spirit; a to make a sudden dart at a passing fly, parasite. A trifling fly, none of your great which they seize with a snap of the bill, familiars.' B. Jonson. and then return. Only two species are Courtiers have ries British-the spotted flycatcher (M. grisola) That buzz all news into them. Massinger. and the pied flycatcher (M. atricapilla). -Fly of the mariner's compass, the com- both about the size of a sparrow. M. albi- Common Flying.fish (Exocetus volitans). pass-card. collis is a native of the south of Europe, Fly (fli), a. Knowing; wide-awake; fully though sometimes seen as far north as Hol- to the species of the genus Exocetus. See conscious of another's intentions or mean- land. EXOCETUS. ing; as, I'm fly. [Slang. ] Fly-drill (fli'dril), n. A drill to which a Flying-fox (flī'ing-foks), n. Pteropus rubriFly-agaric (fi'a-ga-rik), n. A species of steady momentum is imparted by means of collis, a bat found in the islands of the Eastmushroom (Agaricus muscarius), found in a fly-wheel with a reciprocating motion like ern Archipelago, so named from a fancied woods of fir and beech, the juice of which that of the balance-wheel of a watch. resemblance of its head to that of a fox. is a strong narcotic, and, if taken to excess, Flyer, n. See FLIER. It is the largest of the bat tribe, and, living poisonous. It is employed in some coun- Flyfish (Ali'fish), v.i. To angle, using natural on vegetables, commits great ravages in tries, mixed with the juice of cranberries, or more commonly artificial flies for bait. gardens and plantations. to produce intoxication, and an infusion of Flyfishing (fli'fish-ing), n. Angling; the art Flying-gurnard (fli'ing-gėr-nard), n. A the plant is largely employed as a poison or practice of angling for fish with flies, genus of fishes (Dactylopterus), of the family for flies: hence the name. natural or artificial, as bait. Sclerogenidæ or Cataphracta, or mailedFlybane (fli'bān), n. The common name of Fly-flap (fli'flap), n. Something to drive cheeks, closely allied to the gurnards, but fly-agaric. away flies. distinguished by large pectoral fins, which Flybitten (fli'bit-n), a. Marked by the bite Fly-flapper (fli'flap-ér), n. 1. One who support them for a time out of the water. of flies. drives away flies by a fly-flap: -2. A fly-flap. Flying-jib (li'ing-jib), n. Naut. a sail exFly-block (Ali'blok), n. Naut. a block that Fly-governor (fli'guv-ėr-nėr), n. Same as tended outside of the standing-jib, upon a shifts its position when the tackle with Fly, 2. boom called the flying jib-boom. See JIB. which it is connected is worked. Fly-honeysuckle (Ai’hun-ni-suk-1), n. In Flying-lemur (Ai'ing-le-mer), n. The name Flyblow (fli'blo), n. The egg of a fly. bot. (a) a plant, Lonicera Xylosteum. (b) A given to those insectivorous mammals beFlyblow (fli'blo), v.t. 1. To deposit an egg name given to the species of the Cape Hal- longing to the genus Galeopithecus. They in, as a fly; to taint with the eggs which leria. possess a flying membrane, which extends produce maggots. — 2. Fig. to render dis- Flying-army, Flying-camp (fli'ing-är-mi, as a broad expansion from the nape of the tasteful; to taint. fli'ing-kamp), n. Milit. a camp or strong neck to the tail. By means of this mem FLYING-LEVEL 304 FENICULUM brane they can take extended leaps from tree the rim of a fly-wheel, after a few revolu- tance of the focus from some fixed point, viz. to tree. See GALEOPITHECUS. tions, acquires a momentum sufficient to from the vertex of the parabola, and from Flying-level (fli'ing-le-vel), n. In engin. a cause it to revolve with a velocity depend- the centre in the ellipse and hyperbola. trial level over the track of a projected ing upon the resistance of the machinery (b) In optics, the distance between the centre road, railway, or canal, to ascertain the fit- and the augmentations and diminutions of a lens or mirror and the point into which ness of the ground. of the impelling power succeeding each the rays are collected. See FOCUS. Flying-party (fli'ing-pär-ti), n. Milit. a de- other rapidly, while neither cause acts suf- Focalize (fo’kal-iz), v.t. To bring to a focus; tachment of men employed to hover about ficiently long to either augment or diminish to focus. De Quincey. an enemy. the velocity acquired in any considerable Focile (fo'sil), n. [Fr.) In anat. a bone of Flying-phalanger (fli'ing-fa-lan-jer), n. A degree; and hence it remains equable, or the fore-arm and the leg, the greater focile popular name of the members of a genus nearly so. A fly-wheel is often used as an being the ulna or tibia; the lesser, the radius of nocturnal marsupials (Petaurus), family accumulator of force; thus, when a small or fibula. Phalangistide, nearly allied to the true steam-engine sets in motion a very large Focillatet (fö'sil-lāt), v.t. (L. focillo, focilphalangers. A fold of the skin extends along fly-wheel, the wheel acts as a reservoir of latum, from focus, a hearth.) To cherish; the flanks, and this acting as a parachute all the small pressures which have been to warm. Blount, enables the animal to leap great distances, communicated to it, and having thus con- Focillationt (fő-sil-la'shon), n. A cherishing, its heavy tail serving as a rudiler to guide centrated them can apply them all together as at a hearth; comfort; support. its course in the air. These animals inhabit and at once when some great effect is to be Focimeter (fő-sim'et-ér), n. (Focus, and Gr. New Guinea and Australia, where they are produced metron, a measure.) In photog. an instruknown as 'flying squirrels.' The species Flywort (fi'wėrt), n. In bot. the name given ment for finding the focus of a lens which vary in size from that of the flying-lemur to to the species of a genus of orchids, Cata- has not been properly achromatized. that of the mouse. They feed on fruit, setum, from their supposed resemblance to Focus (fo'kus), n. pl. Focuses (fo‘kus-ez) or leaves, insects, &c. flies. Foci (fo'si). (L. focus, a fire, the hearth.) Flying-pinion (Ali'ing-pin-yon), n. The fly Fo (fő), n. The name under which Buddha 1. In optics, a point in which any number of a clock. See FLY, 2. is worshipped in China. This name (written of rays of light meet after being reflected Flying-sap (fli'ing-sap), n. Milit. the rapid also Foe and Fohi) seems to be the nearest or refracted; as, the focus of a lens. - 2. In excavation of the trenches of an attack, approach that the Chinese, owing to the geom. a point on the principal axis of the when each man advances under cover of meagreness of their articulations, can make parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola, so placed two gabions. to the real sound, Buddha. that a double ordinate to the axis passing Flying-shot (fli'ing-shot), n. A shot fired Foal (fől), n. (A.Sax. fola, fole, a foal, colt; D. through the point is equal to the parameter. at something in motion, as a bird on the veulen; G. fohlen, füllen. Cog. Gr. põlos, a The ellipse and hyperbola have each two wing; one who fires such a shot. foal; L pullus, a young animal; comp. also foci, the parabola one, though in the latter Flying-squid (Ali'ing-skwid), n. The popular Skr. putra, a son; the root meaning may pro- case we may suppose a second focus at an name of a genus of cephalopodous molluscs bably be seen in Skr. push, to nourish. The infinite distance. The foci were so called (Ommastrephes), allied to the calamaries or Fr. poule, poulain, st. pollo, are from the from the fact that rays of light proceeding squids, having two large lateral fins, which Latin. Filly is a dim. from foal. ] The yoimg from one focus and reflected from the curve enable them to leap so high out of the water of the equine genus of quadrupeds, and of pass through the other focus. See ELLIPSE, that they sometimes fall on ships' decks. either sex; a colt; a filly. HYPERBOLA, PARABOLA.-3. A central point: Flying-squirrel (Ali'ing-skwi-rel), n. 1. See Foal (fől), v.t. To bring forth, as a colt or point of concentration. PTEROMYS.--2. The name given in Australia filly: said of a mare or a she-ass. Focus (fö'kus), v.t. To bring to a focus; to to the flying-phalanger (which see). Foal (föl), v.i. To bring forth young, as an adjust to a focus; to focalize. Flying-stationer (fli'ing-stā'shon-ėr), n. A animal of the horse kind. Fodder (fod'der), n. (A. Sax. fodder, foder, hawker of ballads, pamphlets, tracts, &c. Foalfoot (föl'fyt), n. The colt's-foot, a plant from föda, food; Icel. fóthr, L.G. foder, D. (Slang or colloq.] of the genus Tussilago (T. Farfara). See voeder, G. futter. See FOOD.] Food for Fly-leaf (fli'lef), n. A blank leaf at the be- COLT'S-FOOT. cattle, horses, and sheep, as hay, straw, and ginning or end of a book; the blank leaf of Foal-teeth (fol'tēth), n. pl. The first teeth other kinds of vegetables. The word is a circular, programme, or the like. of horses, which they shed at a certain age. never applied to pasture. Fly-maggot (tli'ma-got), n. A maggot bred Foam (föm), n. (A. Sax, fæm, fam. Cog. G. Fodder (fod'der), v.t. To feed with dry food from the eggs of a fly. Ray. feim, and dial faum, foam; L. spuma, foam, or cut grass, &c.; to furnish with hay, Fly-man (fli'man), n. One who drives a fly. from spuo, to spit; Skr. phena, froth) Froth; straw, oats, &c.; as, farmers fodder their Fly-net (fi'net), n. A net to protect against spume; the aggregation of bubbles which is cattle twice or thrice in a day. flies, as a net in an open window to pre- formed on the surface of liquors by fermen- Fodder (fod'der), n. [A. Sax. fother, a load, vent their entrance; in the manege, a net tation or violent agitation. a mass; L. G. foder, foor; D. vocder; G. fuder, or a fringe of leather straps to protect a Foam (fõm), v.i. 1. To froth; to gather fuhr, a cart-load.) A weight by which lead horse from flies. foam; as, the billows foam.-2. To be in a and some other metals were formerly sold Fly - orchis (fli'or-kis), n. The common in England, varying from 19} to 24 cwts. name of Ophrys muscifera, from the resem He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth. Fodderer (fod'der-ér), n. One who fodders blance of the flowers to flies. Mark ix. 18. cattle. Fly-penning (fli'pen-ing), n. A mode of 3. To become filled with foam, as a steam. Fodder - passage, Foddering - passage manuring land by folding cattle or sheep in boiler when the water is unduly agitated or (fou'dér-pas-aj, Tod'der-ing-pas-aj), n. The rotation over different parts of it. frothy passage in a cattle-shed or feeding-house by Fly-powder (fli'pou-ler), n. An imperfect Foam (föm), v.t. 1. To throw out with rage which the food is conveyed to the animals. oxide of arsenic formed by the exposure of or violence: with out. Fodgel (fo'jel), a. Fat; square; plump. native arsenic to the air: used when mixed Forming out their own shame. Jude 13. [Scotch.) with sugar and water to kill flies. 2. To make frothy; to cause to foam; to fill If in your bounds ye chance to light Fly-press (fli'pres), n. Burns. A press for emboss Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight. with something that foams. “To foam the ing, die-stamping, punching, and the like, goblet. Pope. Fodient t (fö'di-ent), a. (L. fodiens, fodienfurnished with a fly. See FLY, 3. Foam-cock (fom'kok), n. In steam-boilers, tis, ppr. of fodio, to dig.] Digging; throwFly-rail (fli'rāl), n. That part of a table a cock at the level of the water, by which ing up with a spade. Blount. which turns out to support the leaf. impurities are drawn off. Foe (fo), n. (A. Sax. få, sah, fag, an enemy, Flysch (Alish), n. In geol. a Swiss provincial Foam-crested (fom'krest-ed), a. Crested hostile; O. E fa, faa, foo, pl. fon; Sc. fae, name for a part of the great nummulitic with foam; as, the foam-crested billows. from same stem as fiend. See FIEND.) 1. An formation of the Alps, consisting of marls Foamingly (fom'ing-li), adv. Frothily. enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, and fucoidal sandstones. The flysch occuFoamless (fomʻles), a. Having no foam. hatred, grudge, or malice against another. pies a middle place in the eocene or older Foamy (föm'i), a. Covered with foam; A man's foes shall be they of his own household. tertiaries. Mat. X. 36. frothy. Fly-shuttle (fli'shut-ti), n. A shuttle with 2. An enemy in war; one of a nation at war Behold how high the foamy billows ride. Dryden. wheels propelled by a cord and driver. with another, whether he entertains enmity Fly-slow (fli'slo), a. Moving slowly. (This Fob (fob), n. (Allied to Prov. G. fuppe, a against the opposing nation or not; a hostile reading occurs only in one of the folio pocket.) A little pocket made in men's or opposing army; an adversary. editions and some modern ones; the others breeches, as a receptacle for a watch. Either three years' famine; or three months to be have sly slow.) Fob (fob), v.t. pret. & pp. fobbed; ppr. fob- destroyed before thy foes. 1 Chr. xxi. 12. bing. (Comp. G. foppen, to mock, to banter; The fly-slow hours shall not determinate 3. An opponent; one who opposes anything The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak and fop; some connect it with fib, an untruth; if regarded as onomatopoetic it may in principle; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to reliFly-speck (fli'spek), n. The excrementitious gion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures stain of an insect, chiefly of the common fly. be compared with bob, pop.) 1.1 To beat; to of the administration. Flatterers, foes to maltreat. Beau. & Fl. -2. To cheat; to Flyte, v.i. and n. See FLITE. nobleness.' Shak. trick; to impose on.--To fob off, to shift off Flytrap (fli'trap), n. 1. A trap to catch or Foet (fo), v.t. To treat as an enemy. kill flies. --- 2. A sensitive plant (Dionæa by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with Foe (fö'ë), n. See Fo. a trick. Shak. muscipula), also called Venus's Flytrap. Foehood t (fö'hụd), n. Enmity. A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob Foelike (föʻlik), a. Like an enemy. Milton. Foeman (fo'man), n. pl. Foemen (fö'men). arsenic, decoction of quassia-bark, or the Fob (foh), n. A tap on the shoulder, as from An enemy in war. like, for killing flies. a bailiff. The stern joy which warriors feel Fly-wheel (fli'whēl), n. In mech. a wheel The man, sir, that when gentlemen are tired, gives In foemen worthy of their steel. Sir W. Scott. with a heavy rim placed on the revolving them a fob, and 'rests them. Shak. Fenerate (fē'ne-rāt), v.t. Same as Fenerate. shaft of any machinery put in motion by Fob (sob), v.i. [Onomatopoetic.) To breathe Fæneration (fe-ne-ra'shon), n. Same as an irregular or intermitting force, for the hard; to gasp from violent running; to have Feneration. purpose of rendering the motion equable the sides heaving. (Scotch.) Fæniculum (fë-nik’ū-lum), 1. In bot. fenand regular by means of its momentum. Focaget (fo'kaj), n. (L. focus, a fire or fire- nel, a genus of umbelliferous herbs containThis effect results from a law of nature that hearth.) Housebote or firebote. ing four species, natives of the countries all bodies have a tendency to continue in Focal (fo’kal), a. (From L. focus.] Of or around the Mediterranean. The leaves are their state either of motion or of rest until pertaining to a focus; as, a focal point. pinnately decompound, with slender segacted upon by some extraneous force. Thus Focal distance, (a) in conic sections, the dis- ments, and the small yellow flowers are |