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Fix
FIX, verb transitive [Latin firus, figo.]
1. To make stable; to set or establish immovably. The universe is governed by fixed laws.
2. To set or place permanently; to establish. The prince fixed his residence at York. The seat of our government is fixed at Washington in the district of Columbia. Some men have no fixed opinions.
3. To make fast; to fasten; to attach firmly; as, to fix a cord or line to a hook.
4. To set or place steadily; to direct, as the eye, without moving it; to fasten. The gentleman fixed his eyes on the speaker, and addressed him with firmness.
5. To set or direct steadily, without wandering; as, to fix the attention. The preacher fixes the attention of his audience, or the hearers fix their attention on the preacher.
6. To set or make firm, so as to bear a high degree of heat without evaporating; to deprive of volatility. Gold, diamonds, silver, platina, are among the most fixed bodies.
7. To transfix; to pierce. [Little used.]
8. To withhold from motion.
9. In popular use, to put in order; to prepare; to adjust; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; as, to fix clothes or dress; to fix the furniture of a room. this use is analogous to that of set, in the phrase, to set a razor.
FIX, verb intransitive
1. To rest; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering.
Your kindness banishes your fear, resolved to fix forever here.
2. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization.
3. To cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable; as a metallic substance.
To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution on any thing; to determine on. The contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points. the legislature fixed on Wethersfield as the place for a State Prison.
Fixable
FIX'ABLE, adjective That may be fixed, established, or rendered firm.
Fixation
FIXA'TION, noun
1. The act of fixing.
2. Stability; firmness; steadiness; a state of being established; as fixation in matters of religion.
3. Residence in a certain place; or a place of residence. [Little used.]
To light, created in the first day, God gave no certain place or fixation
4. That firm state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixation of gold or other metals.
5. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm; state of being fixed.
Fixed
FIX'ED, participle passive Settled; established; firm; fast; stable.
Fixed air, an invisible and permanently elastic fluid, heavier than common air and fatal to animal life, produced from the combustion of carbonaceous bodies, as wood or charcoal, and by artificial processes; called also aerial acid, cretaceous acid, and more generally, carbonic acid.
Fixed bodies, are those which bear a high heat without evaporation or volatilization.
Fixed stars, are such stars as always retain the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, and are thus distinguished from planets and comets, which are revolving bodies.
Fixed oils, such as are obtained by simple pressure, and are not readily volatilized; so called in distinction from volatile or essential oils.
Fixedly
FIX'EDLY, adverb Firmly; in a settled or established manner; steadfastly.
Fixedness
FIX'EDNESS, noun
1. A state of being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfastness; as a fixedness in religion or politics; fixedness of opinion on any subject.
2. The state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixedness of gold.
3. Firm coherence of parts; solidity.
Fixidity
FIXID'ITY, noun Fixedness. [Not used.]
Fixity
FIX'ITY, noun Fixedness; coherence of parts; that property of bodies by which they resist dissipation by heat.
Fixture
FIX'TURE, noun
1. Position.
2. Fixedness; firm pressure; as the fixture of the foot.
3. Firmness; stable state.
4. That which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, etc., and which the tenant cannot legally take away, when he removes to another house.
Fixure
FIX'URE, noun Position; stable pressure; firmness. [Little used.]
FIZ'GIG, noun
1. A fishgig, which see.
2. A gadding flirting girl.
3. A fire-work, made of powder rolled up in a paper.
Fizgig
FIZ'GIG, noun An instrument used for striking fish at sea, consisting of a staff with barbed prongs, and a line fastened just above the prongs.
Fizz
FIZZ,
FIZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To make a hissing sound.
Fizzle
FIZ'ZLE, v.i. To make a hissing sound.
Flabbiness
FLAB'BINESS, noun [See Flabby.] A soft, flexible state of a substance, which renders it easily movable and yielding to pressure.
Flabby
FLAB'BY, adjective
Soft; yielding to the touch and easily moved or shaken; easily bent; hanging loose by its own weight; as flabby flesh.
Flaccid
FLAC'CID, adjective [Latin flaccidus, from flacceo, to hand down, to flag.]
Soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; hanging down by its own weight; yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; as a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Flaccidity
FLACCID'ITY, noun Laxity; limberness: want of firmness or stiffness.
Flaccidness
FLAC'CIDNESS or FLACCIDITY, noun. Laxity; limberness: want of firmness or stiffness.
Flag
FLAG, verb intransitive [Latin flacceo. See Flaccid. The sense is primarily to bend, or rather to recede, to lag.]
1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down as flexible bodies; to be loose and yielding; as the flagging sails.
2. To grow spiritless or dejected; to droop; to grow languid; as, the spirits flag.
3. To grow weak; to lose vigor; as, the strength flags.
4. To become dull or languid.
The pleasures of the town begin to flag.
FLAG, verb transitive To let fall into feebleness; to suffer to drop; as, to flag the wings.
FLAG, noun A flat stone, or a pavement of flat stones.
FLAG, verb transitive To lay with flat stones.
The sides and floor were all flagged with excellent marble.
FLAG, noun An aquatic plant, with a bladed leaf, probably so called from its bending or yielding to the wind.
FLAG, noun
An ensign or colors; a cloth on which are usually painted or wrought certain figures, and borne on a staff. In the army, a banner by which one regiment is distinguished from another. In the marine, a banner or standard by which the ships of one nation are distinguished from those of another, or by which an admiral is distinguished from other ships of his squadron. In the British navy, an admiral's flag is displayed at the main-top-gallant-mast-head, a vice-admiral's at the fore-top-gallant-mast-head, and a rear-admiral's at the mizen-top-gallant-mast-head.
To strike or lower the flag, is to pull it down upon the cap in token of respect or submission. To strike the flag in an engagement, is the sign of surrendering.
To hang out the white flag, is to ask quarter; or in some cases, to manifest a friendly design. The red flag, is a sign of defiance or battle.
To hang the flag half mast high, is a token or signal of mourning.
Flag-officer, an admiral; the commander of a squadron.
Flag-ship, the ship which bears the admiral, and in which his flag is displayed.
Flag-staff, the staff that elevates the flag.
Flagbroom
FLAG'BROOM, noun A broom for sweeping flags.
Flagelet
FLAG'ELET, noun [Latin flatus, by corruption or Gr. oblique, and a flute.]
A small flute; a small wind instrument of music.
Flagellant
FLAG'ELLANT, noun [Latin flagellans, from flagello, to flog.]
One who whips himself in religious discipline. The flagellants were a fanatical sect which arose in Italy, AD. 1260, who maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament. They walked in procession with shoulders bare, and whipped themselves till the blood ran down their bodies, to obtain the mercy of God, and appease his wrath against the vices of the age.
Flagellate
FLAG'ELLATE, verb transitive To whip; to scourge.
Flagellation
FLAGELLA'TION, noun [Latin flagello, to beat or whip, to flog, from flagellum, a whip, scourge or flail. See Flail and Flog.]
A beating or whipping; a flogging; the discipline of the scourge.
Flagged
FLAG'GED, participle passive Laid with flat stones.
Flagginess
FLAG'GINESS, noun Laxity; limberness; want of tension.
Flagging
FLAG'GING, participle present tense Growing weak; drooping; laying with flat stones.
Flaggy
FLAG'GY, adjective
1. Weak; flexible; limber; not stiff.
2. Weak in taste; insipid; as a flaggy apple.
3. Abounding with flags, the plant.
Flagitious
FLAGI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin flagitium, a scandalous crime, probably from the root of flagrant.]
1. Deeply criminal; grossly wicked; villainous; atrocious; scandalous; as a flagitious action or crime.
2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; wicked; as a flagitious person.
3. Marked or infected with scandalous crimes or vices; as flagitious times.
Flagitiously
FLAGI'TIOUSLY, adverb With extreme wickedness.
Flagitiousness
FLAGI'TIOUSNESS, noun Extreme wickedness; villainy.
Flagon
FLAG'ON, noun [Latin lagena; Gr.]
A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.
Flagrancy
FLA'GRANCY, noun [See Flagrant.]
1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. obsolete
Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.
2. Excess; enormity; as the flagrancy of a crime.
Flagrant
FLA'GRANT, adjective [Latin flagrans, from flagro, to burn; Gr.]
1. Burning; ardent; eager; as flagrant desires.
2. Glowing; red; flushed.
See Sapho, at her toilet's greasy task,
Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask.
3. Red; inflamed.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
[The foregoing senses are unusual.]
4. Flaming in notice; glaring; notorious; enormous; as a flagrant crime.
Flagrantly
FLA'GRANTLY, adverb Ardently; notoriously.
Flagrate
FLA'GRATE, verb transitive To burn. [Little used.]
Flagration
FLAGRA'TION, noun A burning. [Little used.]
Flagstone
FLAG'STONE, noun A flat stone for pavement.
Flagworm
FLAG'WORM, noun A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Flail
FLA'IL, noun [Latin flagellum. We retain the original verb in flog, to strike, to lay on, Latin fligo, whence affligo, to afflict; plaga, a stroke, or perhaps from the same root as lick and lay. Gr. See Lick.]
An instrument for thrashing or beating corn from the ear.
Flake
FLAKE, noun [Latin floccus; Gr. flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with Latin plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.]
1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake lock or flock of snow.
2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.
3. A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow.
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4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.
5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.
Little flakes of scurf.
6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.
White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.
FLAKE, verb transitive To form into flakes.
FLAKE, verb intransitive To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.
Flake-White
FLAKE-WHITE, noun Oxyd of bismuth.
Flaky
FLA'KY, adjective
1. Consisting of flakes or locks; consisting of small loose masses.
2. Lying in flakes; consisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers.
Flam
FLAM, noun A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Lies immortalized and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.
FLAM, verb transitive To deceive with falsehood; to delude.
Flambeau
FLAM'BEAU, noun flam'bo. [Latin flamma, flame.]
A light or luminary made of thick wicks covered with wax, and used in the streets at night, at illuminations, and in processions. Flambeaus are made square, and usually consist of four wicks or branches, near an inch thick, and about three feet long, composed of coarse hempen yarn, half twisted.
Flame
FLAME, noun [Latin flamma.]
1. A blaze; burning vapor; vapor in combustion; or according to modern chimistry, hydrogen or any inflammable gas, in a state of combustion, and naturally ascending in a stream from burning bodies being specifically lighter than common air.
2. Fire in general.
3. Heat of passion; tumult; combustion; blaze; violent contention. One jealous, tattling mischief-maker will set a whole village in a flame
4. Ardor of temper or imagination; brightness of fancy; vigor of thought.
Great are their faults, and glorious is their flame
5. Ardor of inclination; warmth of affection.
Smit with the love of kindred arts we came,
And met congenial, mingling flame with flame
6. The passion of love; ardent love.
My heart's on flame
7. Rage; violence; as the flames of war.
FLAME, verb transitive To inflame; to excite.
FLAME, verb intransitive
1. To blaze; to burn in vapor, or in a current; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion.
2. To shine like burning gas.
In flaming yellow bright.
3. To break out in violence of passion.
Flamecolor
FLA'MECOLOR, noun Bright color, as that of flame.
Flamecolored
FLA'MECOLORED, adjective Of the color of flame; of a bright yellow color.
Flameeyed
FLA'MEEYED, adjective Having eyes like a flame.
Flameless
FLA'MELESS, adjective Destitute of flame; without incense.
Flamen
FLA'MEN, noun [Latin]
1. In ancient Rome, a priest. Originally there were three priests so called; the flamen Dialis, consecrated to Jupiter; flamen Martialis, sacred to Mars; and flamen Quirinalis, who superintended the rites of Quirinus or Romulus.
2. A priest.
Flaming
FLA'MING, participle present tense
1. Burning in flame.
2. adjective Bright; red. Also, violent; vehement; as a flaming harangue.
FLA'MING, noun A bursting out in a flame.
Flamingly
FLA'MINGLY, adverb Most brightly; with great show or vehemence.
Flamingo
FLAMIN'GO, noun
A fowl constituting the genus Phoenicopterus, of the grallic order. The beak is naked, toothed, and bent as if broken; the feet palmated and four-toed. This fowl resembles the heron in shape, but is entirely red, except the quill-fethers. It is a native of Africa and America.
Flaminical
FLAMIN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a Roman flamen.
Flammability
FLAMMABIL'ITY, noun The quality of admitting to be set on fire, or enkindled into a flame or blaze; inflammability.
Flammable
FLAM'MABLE, adjective Capable of being enkindled into flame.
Flammation
FLAMMA'TION, noun The act of setting on flame.
The three last words are little used. Instead of them are used the compounds, inflammable, inflammability, inflammation.
Flammeous
FLAM'MEOUS, adjective Consisting of flame; like flame.
Flammiferous
FLAMMIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin flamma and fero, to bring.] Producing flame.
Flammivomous
FLAMMIV'OMOUS, adjective [Latin flamma and vomo, to vomit.] Vomiting flames, as a volcano.
Flamy
FLA'MY, adjective [from flame.]
1. Blazing; burning; as flamy breath.
2. Having the nature of flame; as flamy matter.
3. Having the color of flame.
Flank
FLANK, noun [Eng. flag. Gr. probably connected with lank, and so called from its laxity, or from breadth.]
1. The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. Hence,
2. The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment or battalion. To attack an enemy in flank is to attack them on the side.
3. In fortification, that part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the opposite face, the flank and the curtain; or it is a line drawn from the extremity of the face towards the inside of the work.
FLANK, verb transitive
1. To attack the side or flank of an army or body of troops; or to place troops so as to command or attack the flank
2. To post so as to overlook or command on the side; as, to flank a passage.
3. To secure or guard on the side; as flanked with rocks.
FLANK, verb intransitive
1. To border; to touch.
2. To be posted on the side.
Flanked
FLANK'ED, participle passive Attacked on the side; covered or commanded on the flank.
Flanker
FLANK'ER, noun A fortification projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
FLANK'ER, verb transitive
1. To defend by lateral fortifications.
2. To attack sideways.
Flannel
FLAN'NEL, noun [Latin lana.]
A soft nappy woolen cloth of loose texture.
Flap
FLAP, noun [Latin alapa, a slap. It seems difficult to separate flap from clap, slap, flabby, lap, etc.]
1. Any thing broad and limber that hangs loose, or is easily moved.
A cartilaginous flap on the opening of the larynx.
We say, the flap of a garment, the flap of the ear, the flap of a hat.
2. The motion of any thing broad and loose, or a stroke with it.
3. The flaps, a disease in the lips of horses.
FLAP, verb transitive
1. To beat with a flap
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.
2. To move something broad; as, to flap the wings.
3. To let fall, as the brim of a hat. [This sense seems to indicate a connection with lap.]
FLAP, verb intransitive
1. To move as wings, or as something broad or loose.
2. To fall, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Flapdragon
FLAP'DRAGON, noun
1. A play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy, and extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them.
2. The thing eaten.
FLAP'DRAGON, verb transitive To swallow or devour.
Flapeared
FLAP'EARED, adjective Having broad loose ears.
Flapjack
FLAP'JACK, noun An apple-puff.
Flapmouthed
FLAP'MOUTHED, adjective Having loose hanging lips.
Flapped
FLAP'PED, participle passive Struck with something broad, let down; having the brim fallen, as a flapped hat.
Flapper
FLAP'PER, noun One who flaps another.
Flapping
FLAP'PING, participle present tense Striking; beating; moving something broad; as flapping wings. The ducks run flapping and fluttering.
Flare
FLARE, verb intransitive [If this word is not contracted, it may be allied to clear, glare, glory, Latin floreo, Eng. floor, the primary sense of which is to open, to spread, from parting, departing, or driving apart.]
1. To waver; to flutter; to burn with an unsteady light; as, the candle flares, that is the light wanders from its natural course.
2. To flutter with splendid show; to be loose and waving as a showy thing.
With ribbons pendant flaring 'bout her head.
3. To glitter with transient luster.
But speech alone doth vanish like a flaring thing.
4. To glitter with painful splendor.
When the sun begins to fling his flaring beams.
5. To be exposed to too much light.
I cannot stay flaring in sunshine all the day.
6. To open or spread outward.
Flaring
FLA'RING, participle present tense or adjective
1. Burning with a wavering light; fluttering; glittering; showy.
2. Opening; widening outward; as a flaring fireplace.
Flash
FLASH, noun
1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; as a flash of lightning.
2. A sudden burst of flame and light; as instantaneous blaze; as the flash of a gun.
3. A sudden burst, as of wit or merriment; as a flash of wit; a flash of joy or mirth.
His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy -
4. A short, transient state.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash
5. A body of water driven by violence. [Local.]
6. A little pool. [Local.]
FLASH, verb intransitive
1. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst or open instantly on the sight, as splendor. It differs from glitter, glisten and gleam in denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. A diamond may glitter or glisten, but it does not flash flash differs from other words also in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance.
2. To burst or break forth with a flood of flame and light; as, the powder flashed in the pan. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding, in not being accompanied with a loud report.
3. To burst out into any kind of violence.
Every hour he flashes into one gross crime or other.
4. To break out, as a sudden expression of wit, merriment or bright thought.
FLASH, verb transitive
1. To strike up a body of water from the surface.
He rudely flashed the waves.
[In this sense I believe this word is not used in America.]
2. To strike or to throw like a burst of light; as, to flash conviction on the mind.
Flasher
FLASH'ER, noun
1. A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
2. A rower. [Not in use.]
Flashily
FLASH'ILY, adverb With empty show; with a sudden glare; without solidity of wit or thought.
Flashing
FLASH'ING, participle present tense Bursting forth as a flood of light, or of flame and light, or as wit, mirth or joy.
Flashy
FLASH'Y, adjective
1. Showy, but empty; dazzling for a moment, but not solid; as flashy wit.
2. Showy; gay; as a flashy dress.
3. Insipid; vapid; without taste or spirit; as food or drink.
4. Washy; plashy. [See Plash.]
Flask
FL'ASK, noun
1. A kind of bottle; as a flask of wine or oil.
2. A vessel for powder.
3. A bed in a gun-carriage.
Flasket
FL'ASKET, noun
1. A vessel in which viands are served up.
2. A long shallow basket.
Flat
FLAT, adjective [Latin latus, broad; Gr.; Eng. blade.]
1. Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys; as flat land.
2. Horizontal; level; without inclination; as a flat roof; or with a moderate inclination or slope; for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined.
3. Prostrate; lying the whole length on the ground. He fell or lay flat on the ground.
4. Not elevated or erect; fallen.
Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes fall flat
5. Level with the ground; totally fallen.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat
6. In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures.
7. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as fruit flat to the taste.
8. Dull; unanimated; frigid; without point or spirit; applied to discourses and compositions. The sermon was very flat
9. Depressed; spiritless; dejected.
I feel - my hopes all flat
10. Unpleasing; not affording gratification.
How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!
11. Peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. He gave the petitioner a flat denial.
Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.
12. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as a flat sound.
13. Low, as the prices of goods; or dull, as sales.
FLAT, noun
1. A level or extended plain. In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent.
2. A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water; a shoal; a shallow; a strand; a sand bank under water.
3. The broad side of a blade.
4. Depression of thought or language.
5. A surface without relief or prominences.
6. In music, a mark of depression in sound. A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone.
7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
FLAT, verb transitive
1. To level; to depress; to lay smooth or even; to make broad and smooth; to flatten.
2. To make vapid or tasteless.
3. To make dull or unanimated.
FLAT, verb intransitive
1. To grow flat; to fall to an even surface.
2. To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.
Flat-Bottomed
FLAT'-BOTTOMED, adjective Having a flat bottom, as a boat, or a moat in fortification.
Flative
FLA'TIVE, adjective [Latin flatus, from flo, to blow.] Producing wind; flatulent. [Not in use.]
Flatlong
FLAT'LONG, adverb With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
Flatly
FLAT'LY, adverb
1. Horizontally; without inclination.
2. Evenly; without elevations and depressions.
3. Without spirit; dully; frigidly.
4. Peremptorily; positively; downright.
He flatly refused his aid.
Flatness
FLAT'NESS, noun
1. Evenness of surface; levelness; equality of surface.
2. Want of relief or prominence; as the flatness of a figure in sculpture.
3. Deadness; vapidness; insipidity; as the flatness of cider or beer.
4. Dejection of fortune; low state.
The flatness of my misery.
5. Dejection of mind; a low state of the spirits; depression; want of life.
6. Dullness; want of point; insipidity; frigidity.
Some of Homer's translators have swelled into fustian, and others sunk into flatness
7. Gravity of sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness or shrillness.
Flatness of sound - joined with a harshness.
FLAT'-NOSED, adjective Having a flat nose.
Flatted
FLAT'TED, participle passive Made flat; rendered even on the surface; also, rendered vapid or insipid.
Flatten
FLAT'TEN, verb transitive flat'n.
1. To make flat; to reduce to an equal or even surface; to level.
2. To beat down to the ground; to lay flat.
3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. To depress; to deject, as the spirits; to dispirit.
5. In music, to reduce, as sound; to render less acute or sharp.
FLAT'TEN, verb intransitive flat'n.
1. To grow or become even on the surface.
2. To become dead, stale, vapid or tasteless.
3. To become dull or spiritless.
Flattening
FLAT'TENING, participle present tense Making flat.
Flatter
FLAT'TER, noun The person or thing by which any thing is flattened.
FLAT'TER, verb transitive [Flatter may be from the root of flat, that is, to make smooth, to appease, to soothe. Latin plaudo. Perhaps flat and plaudo are from one root, the radical sense of which must be to extend, strain, stretch.]
1. To soothe by praise; to gratify self-love by praise or obsequiousness; to please a person by applause or favorable notice, by respectful attention, or by any thing that exalts him in his own estimation, or confirms his good opinion of himself. We flatter a woman when we praise her children.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. .
2. To please; to gratify; as, to flatter one's vanity or pride.
3. To praise falsely; to encourage by favorable notice; as, to flatter vices or crimes.
4. To encourage by favorable representations or indications; as, to flatter hopes. We are flattered with the prospect of peace.
5. To raise false hopes by representations not well founded; as, to flatter one with a prospect of success; to flatter a patient with the expectation of recovery when his case is desperate.
6. To please; to soothe.
A concert of voices - makes a harmony that flatters the ears.
7. To wheedle; to coax; to attempt to win by blandishments, praise or enticements. How many young and credulous persons are flattered out of their innocence and their property, by seducing arts!
Flattered
FLAT'TERED, participle passive Soothed by praise; pleased by commendation; gratified with hopes, false or well founded; wheedled.
Flatterer
FLAT'TERER, noun One who flatters; a fawner; a wheedler; one who praises another, with a view to please him, to gain his favor, or to accomplish some purpose.
When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does; being then most flattered.
The most abject flatterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants.
Flattering
FLAT'TERING, participle present tense
1. Gratifying with praise; pleasing by applause; wheedling; coaxing.
2. adjective Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love; as a flattering eulogy. The minister gives a flattering account of his reception at court.
3. Pleasing; favorable; encouraging hope. We have a flattering prospect of an abundant harvest. The symptoms of the disease are flattering
4. Practicing adulation; uttering false praise; as a flattering tongue.
Flatteringly
FLAT'TERINGLY, adverb
1. In a flattering manner; in a manner to flatter.
2. In a manner to favor; with partiality.
Flattery
FLAT'TERY, noun
1. False praise; commendation bestowed for the purpose of gaining favor and influence, or to accomplish some purpose. Direct flattery consists in praising a person himself; indirect flattery consists in praising a person through his works or his connections.
Simple pride for flattery makes demands.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
2. Adulation; obsequiousness; wheedling.
3. Just commendation which gratifies self-love.
Flattish
FLAT'TISH, adjective [from flat.] Somewhat flat; approaching to flatness.
Flatulence
FLAT'ULENCE,
FLAT'ULENCY, noun [See Flatulent.]
1. Windiness in the stomach; air generated in a weak stomach and intestines by imperfect digestion, occasioning distension, uneasiness, pain, and often belchings.
2. Airiness; emptiness; vanity.
Flatulency
FLAT'ULENCY, n. [See Flatulent.] 1. Windiness in the stomach; air generated in a weak stomach and intestines by imperfect digestion, occasioning distension, uneasiness, pain, and often belchings.2. Airiness; emptiness; vanity.
Flatulent
FLAT'ULENT, adjective [Latin flatulentus, flatus, from flo, to blow.]
1. Windy; affected with air generated in the stomach and intestines.
2. Turgid with air; windy; as a flatulent tumor.
3. Generating or apt to a generate wind in the stomach. Pease are a flatulent vegetable.
4. Empty; vain; big without substance or reality; puffy; as a flatulent writer; flatulent vanity.
Flatuosity
FLATUOS'ITY, noun Windiness; fullness of air; flatulence. [Not used.]
Flatuous
FLAT'UOUS, adjective [Latin flatuosus.] Windy; generating wind. [Not used.]
Flatus
FLA'TUS, noun [Latin from flo, to blow.]
1. A breath; a puff of wind.
2. Wind generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body; flatulence.
Flatwise
FLAT'WISE, adjective or adverb [from flat.] With the flat side downward or next to another object; not edgewise.
Flaunt
FL'AUNT, verb intransitive [I know not whence we have this word. From the root Latin bearing the sense of throwing out, or spreading. See Flounce.]
1. To throw or spread out; to flutter; to display ostentatiously; as a flaunting show.
You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
[This correctly expresses the author's meaning, which is, that the proud often attempt to make a show and parade of their importance, even in poverty. Johnson's remark on the use of the word seems therefore to be unfounded.]
2. To carry a pert or saucy appearance.
FL'AUNT, noun Any thing displayed for show.
Flaunting
FL'AUNTING, participle present tense Making an ostentatious display.
Flavor
FLA'VOR, noun
The quality of a substance which affects the taste or smell, in any manner. We say, the wine has a fine flavor or a disagreeable flavor; the fruit has a bad flavor; a rose has a sweet flavor The word then signifies the quality which is tasted or smelled; taste, odor, fragrance, smell.
FLA'VOR, verb transitive To communicate some quality to a thing, that may affect the taste or smell.
Flavored
FLA'VORED, adjective Having a quality that affects the sense of tasting or smelling; as high-flavored wine, having the quality in a high degree.
Flavorless
FLA'VORLESS, adjective Without flavor; tasteless; having no smell or taste.
Flavorous
FLA'VOROUS, adjective Pleasant to the taste or smell
Flavous
FLA'VOUS, adjective [Latin flavus.] Yellow. [Not used.]
Flaw
FLAW, noun [Gr. seems to be contracted .
1. A breach; a crack; a defect made by breaking or splitting; a gap or fissure; as a flaw in a scythe, knife or razor; a flaw in a china dish, or in a glass; a flaw in a wall.
2. A defect; a fault; any defect made by violence, or occasioned by neglect; as a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, or in a deed, or in a statute.
3. A sudden burst of wind; a sudden gust or blast of short duration; a word of common use among seamen. [This proves the primary sense to be, to burst or rush.]
4. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar.
And deluges of armies from the town
Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw
[In this sense, the word is not used in the United States.]
5. A sudden commotion of mind. [Not used.]
FLAW, verb transitive
1. To break; to crack.
The brazen cauldrons with the frosts are flawed.
2. To break; to violate; as, to flaw a league. [Little used.]
Flawed
FLAW'ED, participle passive Broken; cracked.
Flawing
FLAW'ING, participle present tense Breaking; cracking.
Flawless
FLAW'LESS, adjective Without cracks; without defect.
Flawn
FLAWN, noun A sort of custard or pie. [Obs.]
Flawter
FLAW'TER, verb transitive To scrape or pare a skin. [Not used.]
Flawy
FLAW'Y,
1. Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
2. Subject to sudden gusts of wind.
Flax
FLAX, noun
1. A plant of the genus Linum, consisting of a single slender stalk, the skin or herl of which is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. The skin consists of fine fibers, which may be so separated as to be spun into threads as fine as silk.
2. The skin or fibrous part of the plant when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
Flaxcomb
FLAX'COMB, noun An instrument with teeth through which flax is drawn for separating from it the tow or coarser part and the shives. In America, we call it a hatchel.
Flaxdresser
FLAX'DRESSER, noun One who breaks and swingles flax.
Flaxen
FLAX'EN, adjective
1. Made of flax; as flaxen thread.
2. Resembling flax; of the color of flax; fair, long, and flowing; as flaxen hair.
Flaxplant
FLAX'PLANT, noun The Phormium, a plant in New Zealand that serves the inhabitants for flax.
Flaxraiser
FLAX'RAISER, noun One who raises flax.
Flaxseed
FLAX'SEED, noun The seed of flax.
Flaxy
FLAX'Y, adjective Like flax; being of a light color; fair.
Flay
FLAY, verb transitive [Gr. whence bark, rind; probably a contracted word.]
1. To skin; to strip off the skin of an animal; as, to flay an ox.
2. To take off the skin or surface of any thing. [Not used.]
Flayed
FLA'YED, participle passive Skinned; stripped of the skin.
Flayer
FLA'YER, noun One who strips off the skin.
Flaying
FLA'YING, participle present tense Stripping off the skin.
Flea
FLEA, noun [See Flee and Fly.]
An insect of the genus Pulex. It has two eyes and six feet; the feelers are like threads; the rostrum is inflected, setaceous, and armed with a string. The flea is remarkable for its agility, leaping to a surprising distance, and its bite is very troublesome.
Fleabane
FLE'ABANE, noun A plant of the genus Conyza.
Fleabite
FLE'ABITE,
FLE'ABITING, noun
1. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
2. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
Fleabiting
FLE'ABITING, n. 1. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.2. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
Fleabitten
FLE'ABITTEN, adjective
1. Bitten or stung by a flea.
2. Mean; worthless; of low birth or station.
Fleak
FLEAK, A lock. [See Flake.]
Fleam
FLEAM, noun
In surgery and farriery, a sharp instrument used for opening veins for letting blood.
Fleawort
FLE'AWORT, noun A plant.
Fleck
FLECK,
FLECK'ER, verb transitive
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
[These words are obsolete or used only in poetry.]
Flecker
FLECK'ER, v.t. To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.[These words are obsolete or used only in poetry.]
Flection
FLEC'TION, noun [Latin flectio.] The act of bending, or state of being bent.
Flector
FLEC'TOR, noun A flexor, which see.
Fled
FLED, preterit tense and participle passive of flee; as, truth has fled
Fledge
FLEDGE, adjective flej.
Feathered; furnished with fethers or wings; able to fly.
His locks behind, illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, lay waving round.
FLEDGE, verb transitive To furnish with fethers; to supply with the fethers necessary for flight.
The birds were not yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.
Fledged
FLEDG'ED, participle passive Furnished with fethers for flight; covered with fethers.
Fledging
FLEDG'ING, participle present tense Furnishing with fethers for flight.
Flee
FLEE, verb intransitive
1. To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil. The enemy fled at the first fire.
Arise, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt. .
2. To depart; to leave; to hasten away.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. .
3. To avoid; to keep at a distance from.
FLEE fornication; flee from idolatry. .
To flee the question or from the question, in legislation, is said of a legislator who, when a question is to be put to the house, leaves his seat to avoid the dilemma of voting against his conscience, or giving an unpopular vote. In the phrases in which this verb appears to be transitive, there is really an ellipsis.
Fleece
FLEECE, noun flees. [Latin vellus, from vello, to pluck or tear off.]
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
FLEECE, verb transitive
1. To shear off a covering or growth of wool.
2. To strip of money or property; to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority. Arbitrary princes fleece their subjects; and clients complain that they are sometimes fleeced by their lawyers.
This word is rarely or never used for plundering in war by a licentious soldiery; but is properly used to express a stripping by contributions levied on a conquered people.
3. To spread over as with wool; to make white.
Fleeced
FLEE'CED, participle passive Stripped by severe exactions.
FLEE'CED, adjective Furnished with a fleece or with fleeces; as, a sheep is well fleeced
Fleecer
FLEE'CER, noun One who strips or takes by severe exactions.
Fleecing
FLEE'CING, participle present tense Stripping of money or property by severe demands of fees, taxes or contributions.
Fleecy
FLEE'CY, adjective
1. Covered with wool; woolly; as a fleecy flock.
2. Resembling wool or a fleece; soft; complicated; as fleecy snow; fleecy locks; fleecy hosiery.
Fleer
FLEER, verb intransitive
1. To deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; as, to fleer and flout.
Covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our soleminity.
2. To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
A teacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.
FLEER, verb transitive to mock; to flout at.
FLEER, noun
1. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks.
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.
2. A grin of civility.
A treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.
Fleerer
FLEE'RER, noun a mocker; a fawner.
Fleering
FLEE'RING, participle present tense Deriding; mocking; counterfeiting an air of civility.
Fleet
FLEET, in English names, denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.
FLEET, noun [Fleet and float seem to be allied. But whether they are formed from the root of flow, or whether the last consonant is radical, is not obvious. See Float.]
A navy or squadron of ships; a number of ships in company, whether ships of war, or of commerce. It more generally signifies ships of war.
FLEET, adjective [Eng. to flit.]
1. Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as a fleet horse or dog.
2. Moving with velocity; as fleet winds.
3. Light; superficially fruitful; or thin; not penetrating deep; as soil.
4. Skimming the surface.
FLEET, verb intransitive
1. To fly swiftly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. To fleet away is to vanish.
How all the other passions fleet to air.
2. To be in a transient state.
3. to float.
FLEET, verb transitive
1. to skim the surface; to pass over rapidly; as a ship that fleets the gulf.
2. To pass lightly, or in mirth and joy; as, to fleet away time. [Not used.]
3. To skim milk. [Local, in England.]
The verb in the transitive form is rarely or never used in America.
Fleetfoot
FLEE'TFOOT, adjective Swift of foot; running or able to run with rapidity.
Fleeting
FLEE'TING, participle present tense
1. Passing rapidly; flying with velocity.
2. adjective Transient; not durable; as the fleeting hours or moments.
Fleeting-Dish
FLEE'TING-DISH, noun A skimming bowl. [Local.]
Fleetly
FLEE'TLY, adverb Rapidly; lightly and nimbly; swiftly.
Fleetness
FLEE'TNESS, noun Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as the fleetness of a horse or a deer.
Fleming
FLEM'ING, noun A native of Flanders, or the Low Countries in Europe.
Flemish
FLEM'ISH, adjective Pertaining to Flanders.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.