flabbergast
-to astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.

flabbergastation
-the state of being flabbergasted.

flabbily
-in a flabby manner.

flabbiness
-quality or state of being flabby.

flabby
-yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

flabel
-a fan.

flabellate
-flabelliform.

flabellation
-the act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

flabelliform
-having the form of a fan; fan
-shaped; flabellate.

flabellinerved
-having many nerves diverging radiately from the base;
-- said of a leaf.

flabellum
-a fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.

flabile
-liable to be blown about.

flaccid
-yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

flaccidity
-the state of being flaccid.

flacker
-to flutter, as a bird.

flacket
-a barrel
-shaped bottle; a flagon.

flag
-to hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
-to droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
-to let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
-to enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
-that which flags or hangs down loosely.
-a cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information;
-- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
-a group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
-a group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
-the bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
-to signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
-to convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
-an aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera iris and acorus.
-to furnish or deck out with flags.
-a flat stone used for paving.
-any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
-to lay with flags of flat stones.

flagella
-of flagellum

flagellant
-one of a fanatical sect which flourished in europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament;
-- called also disciplinant.

flagellata
-an order of infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. it includes monads. see infusoria, and monad.

flagellate
-to whip; to scourge; to flog.
-flagelliform.
-of or pertaining to the flagellata.

flagellated
-of flagellate

flagellating
-of flagellate

flagellation
-a beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

flagellator
-one who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

flagelliform
-shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

flagellum
-a young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
-a long, whiplike cilium. see flagellata.
-an appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
-a lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. see maxilliped.

flagellums
-of flagellum

flageolet
-a small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. it produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.

flagged
-of flag

flagginess
-the condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

flagging
-of flag
-a pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
-growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

flaggy
-weak; flexible; limber.
-tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple.
-abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

flagitate
-to importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

flagitation
-importunity; urgent demand.

flagitious
-disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful;
-- said of acts, crimes, etc.
-guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate;
-- said of persons.
-characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.

flagman
-one who makes signals with a flag.

flagmen
-of flagman

flagon
-a vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. it is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.

flagrance
-flagrancy.

flagrancies
-of flagrancy

flagrancy
-a burning; great heat; inflammation.
-the condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.

flagrant
-flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
-actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
-flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

flagrantly
-in a flagrant manner.

flagrate
-to burn.

flagration
-a conflagration.

flagship
-the vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

flagstaff
-a staff on which a flag is hoisted.

flagstone
-a flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. see flag, a stone.

flagworm
-a worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

flail
-an instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
-an ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.

flaily
-acting like a flail.

flain
-p. p. of flay.

flake
-a paling; a hurdle.
-a platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
-a small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
-a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
-a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
-a sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
-to form into flakes.
-to separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

flaked
-of flake

flakiness
-the state of being flaky.

flaking
-of flake

flaky
-consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

flam
-a freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
-to deceive with a falsehood.

flambeau
-a flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick
-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

flambeaus
-of flambeau

flambeaux
-of flambeau

flamboyant
-characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.;
-- said of the later (15th century) french gothic style.

flamboyer
-a name given in the east and west indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of caesalpinia.

flame
-a stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
-burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
-ardor of affection; the passion of love.
-a person beloved; a sweetheart.
-to burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
-to burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
-to kindle; to inflame; to excite.

flame
-colored
-of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.

flamed
-of flame

flameless
-destitute of flame.

flamelet
-a small flame.

flamen
-a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. the most honored were those of jupiter, mars, and quirinus, called respectively flamen dialis, flamen martialis, and flamen quirinalis.

flamineous
-pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.

flamines
-of flamen

flaming
-of flame
-emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
-of the color of flame; high
-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
-ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

flamingly
-in a flaming manner.

flamingo
-any bird of the genus phoenicopterus. the flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. their color is usually red or pink. the american flamingo is p. ruber; the european is p. antiquorum.

flamingoes
-of flamingo

flaminical
-pertaining to a flamen.

flammability
-the quality of being flammable; inflammability.

flammable
-inflammable.

flammation
-the act of setting in a flame or blaze.

flammed
-of flam

flammens
-of flamen

flammeous
-pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.

flammiferous
-producing flame.

flamming
-of flam

flammivomous
-vomiting flames, as a volcano.

flammulated
-of a reddish color.

flamy
-flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame
-colored; composed of flame.

flanch
-a flange.
-a bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

flanched
-having flanches;
-- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

flanches
-of flanch

flanconade
-a thrust in the side.

flaneur
-one who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.

flang
-a miner's two
-pointed pick.

flange
-an external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
-a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
-to make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
-to be bent into a flange.

flanged
-of flange
-having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.

flanging
-of flange

flank
-the fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. see illust. of beef.
-the side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
-that part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
-the side of any building.
-that part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
-to stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
-to overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
-to border; to touch.
-to be posted on the side.

flanked
-of flank

flanker
-one who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
-to defend by lateral fortifications.
-to attack sideways.

flankered
-of flanker

flankering
-of flanker

flanking
-of flank

flannel
-a soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

flanneled
-covered or wrapped in flannel.

flannen
-made or consisting of flannel.

flap
-anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
-a hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
-the motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
-a disease in the lips of horses.
-to beat with a flap; to strike.
-to move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
-to move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
-to fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

flap
-eared
-having broad, loose, dependent ears.

flap
-mouthed
-having broad, hangling lips.

flapdragon
-a game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
-the thing thus caught and eaten.
-to swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.

flapjack
-a fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
-a fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.

flapped
-of flap

flapper
-one who, or that which, flaps.
-see flipper.

flapping
-of flap

flare
-to burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
-to shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
-to shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
-to be exposed to too much light.
-to open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
-an unsteady, broad, offensive light.
-a spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
-leaf of lard.

flare
-up
-a sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

flared
-of flare

flaring
-of flare
-that flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
-opening or speading outwards.

flaringly
-in a flaring manner.

flash
-to burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
-to break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
-to burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
-to send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
-to convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
-to cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. see flashing, n., 3 (b).
-to trick up in a showy manner.
-to strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
-a sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
-a sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
-the time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
-a preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
-showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
-wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women;
-- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
-slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
-a pool.
-a reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

flashboard
-a board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.

flashed
-of flash

flasher
-one who, or that which, flashes.
-a man of more appearance of wit than reality.
-a large sparoid fish of the atlantic coast and all tropical seas (lobotes surinamensis).
-the european red
-backed shrike (lanius collurio);
-- called also flusher.

flashes
-of flash

flashily
-in a flashy manner; with empty show.

flashiness
-the quality of being flashy.

flashing
-of flash
-the creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water;
-- called also flushing.
-pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. by extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the united states, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. cf. filleting.
-the reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
-a mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.

flashy
-dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
-fiery; vehement; impetuous.
-showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
-without taste or spirit.

flask
-a small bottle
-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
-a narrow
-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
-a bed in a gun carriage.
-the wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. when there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.

flasket
-a long, shallow basket, with two handles.
-a small flask.
-a vessel in which viands are served.

flat
-having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
-lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
-wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
-tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
-unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
-lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
-clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
-below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; a flat.
-not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
-sonant; vocal;
-- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
-in a flat manner; directly; flatly.
-without allowance for accrued interest.
-a level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the united states, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the mohawk flats.
-a level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
-something broad and flat in form
-a flat
-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
-a straw hat, broad
-brimmed and low
-crowned.
-a car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
-a platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
-the flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
-a floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
-a horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
-a dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
-a character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
-a homaloid space or extension.
-to make flat; to flatten; to level.
-to render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
-to depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
-to become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
-to fall form the pitch.

flat foot
-a foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

flat
-bottomed
-having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat
-bottomed boat.

flat
-cap
-a kind of low
-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in england, and continued in london after disuse elsewhere;
-- hence, a citizen of london.

flat
-footed
-having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.
-firm
-footed; determined.

flat
-headed
-having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat
-headed nail.

flatbill
-any bird of the genus flatyrynchus. they belong to the family of flycatchers.

flatboat
-a boat with a flat bottom and square ends;
-- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

flatfish
-any fish of the family pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (pleuronectes americanus). the flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. see flounder.

flathead
-characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of american indians.
-a chinook indian. see chinook, n., 1.

flating
-with the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.

flatiron
-an iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

flative
-producing wind; flatulent.

flatlency
-the state or quality of being flatulent.

flatlong
-with the flat side downward; not edgewise.

flatly
-in a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.

flatness
-the quality or state of being flat.
-eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.
-want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.
-want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.
-depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch;
-- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

flatour
-a flatterer.

flatted
-of flat

flatten
-to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
-to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
-to make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
-to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
-to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

flattened
-of flatten

flattening
-of flatten

flatter
-one who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
-a flat
-faced fulling hammer.
-a drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
-to treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self
-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
-to raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
-to portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
-to use flattery or insincere praise.

flattered
-of flatter

flatterer
-one who flatters.

flatteries
-of flattery

flattering
-of flatter
-that flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.

flatteringly
-with flattery.

flattery
-the act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.

flatting
-of flat
-the process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
-a mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
-a method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
-the process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.

flattish
-somewhat flat.

flatulence
-alt. of flatlency

flatulent
-affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
-generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
-turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.
-pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.

flatulently
-in a flatulent manner; with flatulence.

flatuosity
-flatulence.

flatuous
-windy; generating wind.

flatus
-of flatus
-a breath; a puff of wind.
-wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.

flatuses
-of flatus

flatware
-articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

flatwise
-with the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.

flatworm
-any worm belonging to the plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

flaundrish
-flemish.

flaunt
-to throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
-to display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
-anything displayed for show.

flaunted
-of flaunt

flaunting
-of flaunt

flauntingly
-in a flaunting way.

flautist
-a player on the flute; a flutist.

flauto
-a flute.

flavaniline
-a yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, c16h14n2, of artifical production. it is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

flavescent
-turning yellow; yellowish.

flavicomous
-having yellow hair.

flavin
-a yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.

flavine
-a yellow, crystalline, organic base, c13h12n2o, obtained artificially.

flavol
-a yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.

flavor
-that quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
-that quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
-that which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.
-that quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
-to give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

flavored
-of flavor
-having a distinct flavor; as, high
-flavored wine.

flavoring
-of flavor

flavorles
-without flavor; tasteless.

flavorous
-imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.

flavous
-yellow.

flaw
-a crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
-a defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
-a sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
-a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
-to crack; to make flaws in.
-to break; to violate; to make of no effect.

flawed
-of flaw

flawing
-of flaw

flawless
-free from flaws.

flawn
-a sort of flat custard or pie.

flawter
-to scrape o/ pare, as a skin.

flawy
-full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
-subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

flax
-a plant of the genus linum, esp. the l. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. the fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
-the skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.

flax
-plant
-a plant in new zealand (phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. the leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

flaxen
-made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.

flaxseed
-the seed of the flax; linseed.

flaxweed
-see toadflax.

flaxy
-like flax; flaxen.

flay
-to skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

flayed
-of flay

flayer
-one who strips off the skin.

flaying
-of flay

flea
-to flay.
-an insect belonging to the genus pulex, of the order aphaniptera. fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. the bite is poisonous to most persons. the human flea (pulex irritans), abundant in europe, is rare in america, where the dog flea (p. canis) takes its place. see aphaniptera, and dog flea. see illustration in appendix.

flea
-beetle
-a small beetle of the family halticidae, of many species. they have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. the turnip flea
-beetle (phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.

flea
-bite
-the bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
-a trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.

flea
-bitten
-bitten by a flea; as, a flea
-bitten face.
-white, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel;
-- said of the color of a horse.

flea
-louse
-a jumping plant louse of the family psyllidae, of many species. that of the pear tree is psylla pyri.

fleabane
-one of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. they belong, for the most part, to the genera conyza, erigeron, and pulicaria.

fleagh
-imp. of fly.

fleak
-a flake; a thread or twist.

fleaking
-a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.

fleam
-a sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.

fleamy
-bloody; clotted.

flear
-see fleer.
-a word or look of derision or mockery.
-a grin of civility; a leer.

fleawort
-an herb used in medicine (plantago psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.

fleche
-a simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

fleck
-a flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
-a spot; a streak; a speckle.
-to spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.

flecked
-of fleck

flecker
-to fleck.

flecking
-of fleck

fleckless
-without spot or blame.

flection
-the act of bending, or state of being bent.
-the variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

flectional
-capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.

flector
-a flexor.

fled
-imp. & p. p. of flee.
-of flee

fledge
-feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
-to furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
-to furnish or adorn with any soft covering.

fledged
-of fledge

fledgeling
-a young bird just fledged.

fledging
-of fledge

flee
-to run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off;
-- usually with from. this is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.

fleece
-the entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
-any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
-the fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
-to deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
-to strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
-to spread over as with wool.

fleeced
-of fleece
-furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
-stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.

fleeceless
-without a fleece.

fleecer
-one who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.

fleecing
-of fleece

fleecy
-covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.

fleeing
-of flee

fleen
-obs. pl. of flea.

fleer
-one who flees.
-to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.
-to grin with an air of civility; to leer.
-to mock; to flout at.

fleered
-of fleer

fleerer
-one who fleers.

fleering
-of fleer

fleeringly
-in a fleering manner.

fleet
-to sail; to float.
-to fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
-to slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass;
-- said of a cable or hawser.
-to pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
-to hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
-to draw apart the blocks of;
-- said of a tackle.
-to cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
-swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
-light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
-a number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
-a flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river;
-- obsolete, except as a place name,
-- as fleet street in london.
-a former prison in london, which originally stood near a stream, the fleet (now filled up).
-to take the cream from; to skim.

fleet
-foot
-swift of foot.

fleeted
-of fleet

fleeten
-fleeted or skimmed milk.

fleeting
-of fleet
-passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

fleetingly
-in a fleeting manner; swiftly.

fleetings
-a mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.

fleetly
-in a fleet manner; rapidly.

fleetness
-swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

fleigh
-imp. of fly.

fleme
-to banish; to drive out; to expel.

flemer
-one who, or that which, banishes or expels.

fleming
-a native or inhabitant of flanders.

flemish
-pertaining to flanders, or the flemings.
-the language or dialect spoken by the flemings; also, collectively, the people of flanders.

flench
-same as flence.

flense
-to strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

flesh
-the aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
-animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
-the human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
-the human eace; mankind; humanity.
-human nature
-in a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
-in a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
-the character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
-kindred; stock; race.
-the soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
-to feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate;
-- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
-to glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
-to remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

fleshed
-of flesh
-corpulent; fat; having flesh.
-glutted; satiated; initiated.

flesher
-a butcher.
-a two
-handled, convex, blunt
-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

fleshhood
-the state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.

fleshiness
-the state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.

fleshing
-of flesh
-a person devoted to fleshly things.

fleshings
-flesh
-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.

fleshless
-destitute of flesh; lean.

fleshliness
-the state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.

fleshly
-of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
-animal; not/vegetable.
-human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.
-carnal; wordly; lascivious.
-in a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.

fleshment
-the act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.

fleshmonger
-one who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.

fleshpot
-a pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked
-plenty; high living.

fleshquake
-a quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.

fleshy
-full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
-human.
-composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

flet
-skimmed.

fletch
-to feather, as an arrow.

fletched
-of fletch

fletcher
-one who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

fletching
-of fletch

flete
-to float; to swim.

fletiferous
-producing tears.

fleur
-de
-lis
-the iris. see flower
-de
-luce.
-a conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. it is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of france.

fleurs
-de
-lis
-of fleur
-de
-lis

fleury
-finished at the ends with fleurs
-de
-lis;
-- said esp. of a cross so decorated.

flew
-imp. of fly.
-of fly

flewed
-having large flews.

flews
-the pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds;
-- called also chaps. see illust. of bloodhound.

flex
-to bend; as, to flex the arm.
-flax.

flexanimous
-having power to change the mind.

flexed
-of flex

flexibility
-the state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.

flexible
-capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
-willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
-capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

flexicostate
-having bent or curved ribs.

flexile
-flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.

flexing
-of flex

flexion
-the act of flexing or bending; a turning.
-a bending; a part bent; a fold.
-syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
-the bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part;
-- distinguished from extension.

flexor
-a muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand;
-- opposed to extensor.

flexuose
-flexuous.

flexuous
-having turns, windings, or flexures.
-having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
-wavering; not steady; flickering.

flexural
-of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

flexure
-the act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
-a turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
-the last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
-the small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.

flibbergib
-a sycophant.

flibbertigibbet
-an imp.

flibustier
-a buccaneer; an american pirate. see flibuster.

flick
-to whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
-a flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

flicked
-of flick

flicker
-to flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
-to waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
-the act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
-the golden
-winged woodpecker (colaptes aurutus);
-- so called from its spring note. called also yellow
-hammer, high
-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.

flickered
-of flicker

flickering
-of flicker

flickeringly
-in a flickering manner.

flickermouse
-see flittermouse.

flicking
-of flick

flidge
-fledged; fledge.
-to become fledged; to fledge.

flier
-one who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
-a fly. see fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
-see flyer, n., 5.
-see flyer, n., 4.

flies
-of fly

flight
-the act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
-the act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
-lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
-a number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
-a series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
-a kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. see shaft.
-the husk or glume of oats.

flight
-shot
-the distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot,
-- about the fifth of a mile.

flighted
-taking flight; flying;
-- used in composition.
-feathered;
-- said of arrows.

flighter
-a horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.

flightily
-in a flighty manner.

flightiness
-the state or quality of being flighty.

flighty
-fleeting; swift; transient.
-indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.

flimflam
-a freak; a trick; a lie.

flimsily
-in a flimsy manner.

flimsiness
-the state or quality of being flimsy.

flimsy
-weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
-thin or transfer paper.
-a bank note.

flinch
-to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
-to let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
-the act of flinching.

flinched
-of flinch

flincher
-one who flinches or fails.

flinching
-of flinch

flinchingly
-in a flinching manner.

flindermouse
-a bat; a flittermouse.

flinders
-small pieces or splinters; fragments.

fling
-to cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
-to shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
-to throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
-to throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
-to cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
-to throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
-a cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
-a severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
-a kind of dance; as, the highland fling.
-a trifing matter; an object of contempt.

flingdust
-one who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.

flinger
-one who flings; one who jeers.

flinging
-of fling

flint
-a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. it is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
-a piece of flint for striking fire;
-- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
-anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.

flint glass
-a soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. it is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power;
-- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. called also crystal glass. cf. glass.

flint
-hearted
-hard
-hearted.

flintiness
-the state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

flintlock
-a lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
-a hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old
-fashioned musket of european and other armies.

flintware
-a superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

flintwood
-an australian name for the very hard wood of the eucalyptus piluralis.

flinty
-consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

flip
-a mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
-to toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.

flip
-flap
-the repeated stroke of something long and loose.
-with repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.

flipe
-to turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.

flippancy
-the state or quality of being flippant.

flippant
-of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
-speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
-a flippant person.

flippantly
-in a flippant manner.

flippantness
-state or quality of being flippant.

flipped
-of flip

flipper
-a broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
-the hand.

flipping
-of flip

flirt
-to throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
-to toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
-to jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
-to run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
-to utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
-a sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
-one who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
-pert; wanton.

flirt
-gill
-a woman of light behavior; a gill
-flirt.

flirtation
-playing at courtship; coquetry.

flirted
-of flirt

flirtigig
-a wanton, pert girl.

flirting
-of flirt

flirtingly
-in a flirting manner.

flisk
-to frisk; to skip; to caper.
-a caper; a spring; a whim.

flit
-to move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
-to flutter; to rove on the wing.
-to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
-to remove from one place or habitation to another.
-to be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
-nimble; quick; swift. [obs.] see fleet.

flitch
-the side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
-one of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
-the outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

flitches
-of flitch

flite
-to scold; to quarrel.

flitted
-of flit

flitter
-to flutter.
-to flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
-a rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.

flittermouse
-a bat;
-- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

flittern
-a term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

flittiness
-unsteadiness; levity; lightness.

flitting
-of flit
-a flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
-a removal from one habitation to another.

flittingly
-in a flitting manner.

flitty
-unstable; fluttering.

flix
-down; fur.
-the flux; dysentery.

flo
-an arrow.

float
-anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
-a mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
-the hollow, metallic ball of a self
-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
-the cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
-anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
-a float board. see float board (below).
-a contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
-the act of flowing; flux; flow.
-a quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
-the trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
-a polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
-a single
-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
-a coal cart.
-the sea; a wave. see flote, n.
-to rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
-to move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
-to cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
-to flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
-to pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
-to support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint
-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.

floatable
-that may be floated.

floatage
-same as flotage.

floatation
-see flotation.

floated
-of float

floater
-one who floats or swims.
-a float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

floatiersman
-a man living on the frontier.

floating
-of float
-buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
-free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
-not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
-floating threads. see floating threads, above.
-the second coat of three
-coat plastering.

floatingly
-in a floating manner.

floaty
-swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

flobert
-a small cartridge designed for target shooting;
-- sometimes called ball cap.

flocci
-of floccus

floccillation
-a delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology;
-- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

floccose
-spotted with small tufts like wool.
-having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

floccular
-of or pertaining to the flocculus.

flocculate
-to aggregate into small lumps.
-furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

flocculated
-of flocculate

flocculating
-of flocculate

flocculation
-the process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

flocculence
-the state of being flocculent.

flocculent
-clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
-applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

flocculi
-of flocculus

flocculus
-a small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

floccus
-the tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
-a tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
-a woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

flock
-a company or collection of living creatures;
-- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
-a christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
-to gather in companies or crowds.
-to flock to; to crowd.
-a lock of wool or hair.
-woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
-very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
-to coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

flocked
-of flock

flocking
-of flock

flockling
-a lamb.

flockly
-in flocks; in crowds.

flockmel
-in a flock; in a body.

flocky
-abounding with flocks; floccose.

floe
-a low, flat mass of floating ice.

flog
-to beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

flogged
-of flog

flogger
-one who flogs.
-a kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

flogging
-of flog
-from flog, v. t.

flon
-of flo
-see flo.

flong
-imp. & p. p. of fling.

flood
-a great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
-the flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean;
-- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
-a great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
-menstrual disharge; menses.
-to overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
-to cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

floodage
-inundation.

flooded
-of flood

flooder
-one who floods anything.

flooding
-of flood
-the filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
-an abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.

flook
-a fluke of an anchor.

flookan
-alt. of flukan

flooky
-fluky.

floor
-the bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
-the structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
-the surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
-a story of a building. see story.
-the part of the house assigned to the members.
-the right to speak.
-that part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
-the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
-a horizontal, flat ore body.
-to cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
-to strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
-to finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.

floorage
-floor space.

floored
-of floor

floorer
-anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.

floorheads
-the upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.

flooring
-of floor
-a platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. see floor, n.
-material for the construction of a floor or floors.

floorless
-having no floor.

floorwalker
-one who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.

flop
-to clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
-to turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
-to strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
-to fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
-act of flopping.

flopped
-of flop

flopping
-of flop

floppy
-having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.

flopwing
-the lapwing.

flora
-the goddess of flowers and spring.
-the complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

floral
-pertaining to flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
-containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.

florally
-in a floral manner.

floramour
-the plant love
-lies
-bleeding.

floran
-tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.

floreal
-the eight month of the french republican calendar. it began april 20, and ended may 19. see vendemiare.

floren
-a cerain gold coin; a florence.

florence
-an ancient gold coin of the time of edward iii., of six shillings sterling value.
-a kind of cloth.

florentine
-belonging or relating to florence, in italy.
-a native or inhabitant of florence, a city in italy.
-a kind of silk.
-a kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.

florescence
-a bursting into flower; a blossoming.

florescent
-expanding into flowers; blossoming.

floret
-a little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
-a foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

floriage
-bloom; blossom.

floriated
-having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of gothic pillars.

floricomous
-having the head adorned with flowers.

floricultural
-pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

floriculture
-the cultivation of flowering plants.

floriculturist
-one skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

florid
-covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
-bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
-embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
-flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

florida bean
-the large, roundish, flattened seed of mucuna urens. see under bean.
-one of the very large seeds of the entada scandens.

florideae
-a subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the rhodospermeae of many authors;
-- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

floridity
-the quality of being florid; floridness.

floridly
-in a florid manner.

floridness
-the quality of being florid.

floriferous
-producing flowers.

florification
-the act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

floriform
-having the form of a flower; flower
-shaped.

floriken
-an indian bustard (otis aurita). the bengal floriken is sypheotides bengalensis.

florilege
-the act of gathering flowers.

florimer
-see floramour.

florin
-a silver coin of florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. the name is given to different coins in different countries. the florin of england, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the netherlands, about 40 cents; of austria, about 36 cents.

florist
-a cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
-one who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

floroon
-a border worked with flowers.

florulent
-flowery; blossoming.

flos
-ferri
-a variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms;
-- common in beds of iron ore.

floscular
-flosculous.

floscularian
-one of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

floscule
-a floret.

flosculous
-consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

flosh
-a hopper
-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

floss
-the slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
-untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
-a small stream of water.
-fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

flossification
-a flowering; florification.

flossy
-pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

flota
-a fleet; especially, a /eet of spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from cadiz to vera cruz, in mexico, to transport to spain the production of spanish america.

flotage
-the state of floating.
-that which floats on the sea or in rivers.

flotant
-represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

flotation
-the act, process, or state of floating.
-the science of floating bodies.

flote
-to fleet; to skim.
-a wave.

flotery
-wavy; flowing.

flotilla
-a little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

flotsam
-alt. of flotson

flotson
-goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea;
-- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.

flotten
-skimmed.

flounce
-to throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
-the act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
-an ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
-to deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

flounced
-of flounce

flouncing
-of flounce

flounder
-a flatfish of the family pleuronectidae, of many species.
-a tool used in crimping boot fronts.
-to fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
-the act of floundering.

floundered
-of flounder

floundering
-of flounder

flour
-the finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
-to grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
-to sprinkle with flour.

floured
-of flour
-finely granulated;
-- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.

flouring
-of flour

flourish
-to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
-to be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
-to use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
-to make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
-to make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
-to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
-to boast; to vaunt; to brag.
-to adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
-to embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
-to move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
-to develop; to make thrive; to expand.
-a flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
-decoration; ornament; beauty.
-something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
-a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
-a fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
-the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

flourished
-of flourish

flourisher
-one who flourishes.

flourishes
-of flourish

flourishing
-of flourish

flourishingly
-in a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

floury
-of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.

flout
-to mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
-to practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer;
-- often with at.
-a mock; an insult.

flouted
-of flout

flouter
-one who flouts; a mocker.

flouting
-of flout

floutingly
-with flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

flow
-imp. sing. of fly, v. i.
-to move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
-to become liquid; to melt.
-to proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
-to glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
-to have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
-to hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
-to rise, as the tide;
-- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty
-four hours.
-to discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
-to cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
-to cover with varnish.
-a stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
-a continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
-any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
-the tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. see ebb and flow, under ebb.
-a low
-lying piece of watery land;
-- called also flow moss and flow bog.

flowage
-an overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

flowed
-of flow

flowen
-imp. pl. of fly, v. i.

flower
-in the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
-that part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. a complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. in mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. see blossom, and corolla.
-the fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
-grain pulverized; meal; flour.
-a substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
-a figure of speech; an ornament of style.
-ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
-menstrual discharges.
-to blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in june.
-to come into the finest or fairest condition.
-to froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
-to come off as flowers by sublimation.
-to embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

flower
-de
-luce
-a genus of perennial herbs (iris) with swordlike leaves and large three
-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal french emblem.

flower
-fence
-a tropical leguminous bush (poinciana, / caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers;
-- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the west indies.

flower
-gentle
-a species of amaranth (amarantus melancholicus).

flowerage
-state of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.

flowered
-of flower

flowerer
-a plant which flowers or blossoms.

floweret
-a small flower; a floret.

flowerful
-abounding with flowers.

floweriness
-the state of being flowery.

flowering
-of flower
-having conspicuous flowers;
-- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
-the act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
-the act of adorning with flowers.

flowerless
-having no flowers.

flowerlessness
-state of being without flowers.

flowerpot
-a vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

flowery
-full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
-highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.

flowery
-kirtled
-dressed with garlands of flowers.

flowing
-of flow
-that flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
-a. & n. from flow, v. i. & t.

flowingly
-in a flowing manner.

flowingness
-flowing tendency or quality; fluency.

flowk
-see 1st fluke.

flown
-p. p. of fly;
-- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
-flushed, inflated.
-of fly

floxed silk
-see floss silk, under floss.

floyte
-a variant of flute.

fluate
-a fluoride.

fluavil
-a hydrocarbon extracted from gutta
-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance;
-- called also fluanil.

flucan
-soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.

fluctiferous
-tending to produce waves.

fluctisonous
-sounding like waves.

fluctuability
-the capacity or ability to fluctuate.

fluctuant
-moving like a wave; wavering
-showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
-floating on the waves.

fluctuate
-to move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
-to move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
-to cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.

fluctuated
-of fluctuate

fluctuating
-of fluctuate

fluctuation
-a motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
-a wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
-the motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.

flue
-an inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
-a compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
-a passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
-a pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler;
-- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
-light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

fluence
-fluency.

fluency
-the quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

fluent
-flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
-ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth;
-- said of language; as, fluent speech.
-a current of water; a stream.
-a variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing;
-- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

fluently
-in a fluent manner.

fluentness
-the quality of being fluent.

fluework
-a general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above;
-- in distinction from reedwork.

fluey
-downy; fluffy.

fluff
-nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

fluffy
-pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

flugel
-a grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing
-shaped.

flugelman
-same as fugleman.

fluid
-having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
-a fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.

fluidal
-pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.

fluidize
-to render fluid.

fluidized
-of fluidize

fluidizing
-of fluidize

fluidness
-the state of being flluid; fluidity.

fluidounce
-see fluid ounce, under fluid.

fluidrachm
-see fluid dram, under fluid.

fluinity
-the quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state;
-- opposed to solidity.

flukan
-see flucan.
-flucan.

fluke
-the european flounder. see flounder.
-a parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. two species (fasciola hepatica and distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.
-the part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. see anchor.
-one of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
-an instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
-an accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the united states); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.

flukeworm
-same as 1st fluke, 2.

fluky
-formed like, or having, a fluke.

flume
-a stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

fluminous
-pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

flummery
-a light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
-something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

flung
-of fling
-imp. & p. p. of fling.

flunk
-to fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
-to fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.
-a failure or backing out
-a total failure in a recitation.

flunked
-of flunk

flunkies
-of flunky

flunking
-of flunk

flunky
-a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
-one who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
-one easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

flunkydom
-the place or region of flunkies.

flunlyism
-the quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.

fluo
-
-a combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.

fluoborate
-a salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.

fluoboric
-pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.

fluoboride
-see borofluoride.

fluocerine
-alt. of fluocerite

fluocerite
-a fluoride of cerium, occuring near fahlun in sweden. tynosite, from colorado, is probably the same mineral.

fluohydric
-see hydrofluoric.

fluophosphate
-a double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.

fluor
-a fluid state.
-menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.
-see fluorite.

fluor albus
-the whites; leucorrhaea.

fluor spar
-see fluorite.

fluoranthene
-a white crystalline hydrocarbon c/h/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.

fluorated
-combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.

fluorene
-a colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, c13h10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. it occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

fluorescein
-a yellowish red, crystalline substance, c20h12o5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin;
-- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. it has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.

fluorescence
-that property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. it is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. the light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light.

fluorescent
-having the property of fluorescence.

fluorescin
-a colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.

fluoric
-pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.

fluoride
-a binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.

fluorine
-a non
-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. it always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. if set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. it is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. symbol f. atomic weight 19.

fluorite
-calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. it is used as a flux. some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

fluoroid
-a tetrahexahedron;
-- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

fluoroscope
-an instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

fluorous
-pertaining to fluor.

fluosilicate
-a double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid;
-- called also silicofluoride.

fluosilicic
-composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine.

flurried
-agitated; excited.
-of flurry

flurries
-of flurry

flurry
-a sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
-a light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
-violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
-the violent spasms of a dying whale.
-to put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.

flurrying
-of flurry

flurt
-a flirt.

flush
-to flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
-to become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
-to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
-to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
-to cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
-to cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
-to make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
-to excite; to animate; to stir.
-to cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
-a sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
-a suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
-any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
-a sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
-a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
-a hand of cards of the same suit.
-full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
-affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
-unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
-consisting of cards of one suit.
-so as to be level or even.

flushboard
-same as flashboard.

flushed
-of flush

flusher
-a workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
-the red
-backed shrike. see flasher.

flushing
-of flush
-a heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy;
-- commonly in the /
-a surface formed of floating threads.

flushingly
-in a flushing manner.

flushness
-the state of being flush; abundance.

fluster
-to make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
-to be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
-heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

flusteration
-the act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.

flustered
-of fluster

flustering
-of fluster

flustrate
-to fluster.

flustration
-the act of flustrating; confusion; flurry.

flute
-a musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. the modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
-a channel of curved section;
-- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. see illust. under base, n.
-a similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
-a long french breakfast roll.
-a stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
-a kind of flyboat; a storeship.
-to play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
-to play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
-to form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

flute a bec
-a beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

fluted
-of flute
-thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
-decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.

flutemouth
-a fish of the genus aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

fluter
-one who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
-one who makes grooves or flutings.

fluting
-of flute
-decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.

flutist
-a performer on the flute; a flautist.
-to move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.
-to move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.
-to be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.

flutter
-to vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
-to drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
-the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
-hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.

flutterer
-one who, or that which, flutters.

flutteringly
-in a fluttering manner.

fluty
-soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

fluvial
-belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

fluvialist
-one who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.

fluviatic
-belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.

fluviatile
-belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.

fluvio
-marine
-formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

flux
-the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
-the setting in of the tide toward the shore,
-- the ebb being called the reflux.
-the state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
-any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
-a fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. see bloody flux.
-the matter thus discharged.
-the quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
-flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
-to affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
-to cause to become fluid; to fuse.
-to cause a discharge from; to purge.

fluxation
-the act of fluxing.

fluxed
-of flux

fluxibility
-the quality of being fluxible.

fluxible
-capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.

fluxile
-fluxible.

fluxility
-state of being fluxible.

fluxing
-of flux

fluxion
-the act of flowing.
-the matter that flows.
-fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
-an unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
-a constantly varying indication.
-the infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
-a method of analysis developed by newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.

fluxional
-pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.

fluxionary
-fluxional.
-pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.

fluxionist
-one skilled in fluxions.

fluxions
-see fluxion, 6(b).

fluxive
-flowing; also, wanting solidity.

fluxure
-the quality of being fluid.
-fluid matter.

fly
-to move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
-to move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
-to float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
-to move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
-to run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. see note under flee.
-to move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly;
-- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
-to cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
-to fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
-to hunt with a hawk.
-any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
-any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. see diptera, and illust. in append.
-a hook dressed in imitation of a fly,
-- used for fishing.
-a familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
-a parasite.
-a kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
-the length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
-the part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
-that part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
-two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
-a heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. see fly wheel (below).
-the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
-the pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
-a shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
-formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
-a vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
-the outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
-one of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
-the fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
-a batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
-knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

fly
-bitten
-marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.

fly
-case
-the covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.

fly
-catching
-having the habit of catching insects on the wing.

fly
-fish
-to angle, using flies for bait.

flybane
-a kind of catchfly of the genus silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.

flyblow
-to deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
-one of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

flyblown
-tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.

flyboat
-a large dutch coasting vessel.
-a kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

flycatcher
-one of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.

flyer
-one that uses wings.
-the fly of a flag: see fly, n., 6.
-anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
-one in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
-the pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin;
-- so called from their swift revolution. see fly, n., 11.
-the fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
-a small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

flyfish
-a california scorpaenoid fish (sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

flying
-of fly
-moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

flying fish
-a fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. these fishes belong to several species of the genus exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

flying squirrel
-one of a group of squirrels, of the genera pteromus and sciuropterus, having parachute
-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.

flyman
-the driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

flymen
-of flyman

flysch
-a name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the alps, and included in the eocene tertiary.

flyspeck
-a speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
-to soil with flyspecks.

flytrap
-a trap for catching flies.
-a plant (dionaea muscipula), called also venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. the insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.