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Flesh
FLESH, noun [I know not the primary sense; it may be soft.]
1. A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids. Under the general appellation of flesh we include the muscles, fat, glands etc., which invest the bones and are covered with the skin. It is sometimes restricted to the muscles.
2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable.
FLESH without being qualified with acids, is too alkalescent a diet.
3. The body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish. In Lent, the Catholics abstain from flesh but eat fish.
4. The body, as distinguished from the soul.
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable.
5. Animal nature; animals of all kinds.
The end of all flesh is come before me. .
6. Men in general; mankind.
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh .
7. Human nature.
The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. .
8. Carnality; corporeal appetites.
Fasting serves to mortify the flesh
The flesh lusteth against the spirit. .
9. A carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature.
They that are in the flesh cannot please God. .
10. The corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature.
FLESH and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
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11. The present life; the state of existence in this world.
To abide in the flesh is more needful for you. .
12. Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services.
What shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found? . .
13. Kindred; stock; family.
He is our brother, and our flesh .
14. In botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, etc., which is fit to be eaten.
One flesh denotes intimate relation. To be one flesh is to be closely united, as in marriage. .
After the flesh according to outward appearances,
Or according to the common powers of nature. Gal 4:
Or according to sinful lusts and inclinations. .
An arm of flesh human strength or aid.
FLESH, verb transitive
1. To initiate; a sportsman's use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh
2. To harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing. Men fleshed in cruelty; women fleshed in malice.
3. To glut; to satiate.
The wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
Fleshbroth
FLESH'BROTH, noun Broth made by boiling flesh in water.
Fleshbrush
FLESH'BRUSH, noun A brush for exciting action in the skin by friction.
Fleshcolor
FLESH'COLOR, noun The color of flesh; carnation.
Fleshcolored
FLESH'COLORED, adjective Being of the color of flesh.
Fleshdiet
FLESH'DIET, noun Food consisting of flesh.
Fleshed
FLESH'ED, participle passive
1. Initiated; accustomed; glutted.
2. Fat; fleshy.
Fleshfly
FLESH'FLY, noun A fly that feeds on flesh, and deposits her eggs in it.
Fleshhook
FLESH'HOOK, noun A hook to draw flesh from a pot or caldron. .
Fleshiness
FLESH'INESS, noun [from fleshy.] Abundance of flesh or fat in animals; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
Fleshing
FLESH'ING, participle present tense Initiating; making familiar; glutting.
Fleshless
FLESH'LESS, adjective Destitute of flesh; lean.
Fleshliness
FLESH'LINESS, noun Carnal passions and appetites.
Fleshly
FLESH'LY, adjective
1. Pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
2. Carnal; worldly; lascivious.
Abstain from fleshly lusts. .
3. Animal; not vegetable.
4. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.
Vain of fleshly arm.
Fleshly wisdom. .
Fleshmeat
FLESH'MEAT, noun Animal food; the flesh of animals prepared or used for food.
Fleshment
FLESH'MENT, noun Eagerness gained by a successful initiation.
Fleshmonger
FLESH'MONGER, noun One who deals in flesh; a procurer; a pimp. [Little used.]
Fleshpot
FLESH'POT, A vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence, plenty of provisions. .
Fleshquake
FLESH'QUAKE, noun A trembling of the flesh. [Not used.]
Fleshy
FLESH'Y, adjective
1. Full of flesh; plump; musculous.
The sole of his foot is fleshy
2. Fat; gross; corpulent; as a fleshy man.
3. Corporeal.
4. Full of pulp; pulpous; plump; as fruit.
Flet
FLET, participle passive of fleet. Skimmed. [Not used.]
Fletch
FLETCH, verb transitive To fether an arrow.
Fletcher
FLETCH'ER, noun An arrow-maker; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. hence the name of fletcher
But the use of the word as an appellative has ceased with the practice of archery.
Fletz
FLETZ, adjective In geology, the fletz formations, so called, consist of rocks which lie immediately over the transition rocks. These formations are so called because the rocks usually appear in beds more nearly horizontal than the transition class. These formations consist of sandstone, limestone, gypsum, calamine, chalk, coal and trap. They contain abundance of petrifactions, both of animal and vegetable origin.
Flew
FLEW, preterit tense of fly.
The people flew upon the spoil. .
FLEW, noun The large chaps of a deep-mouthed hound.
Flewed
FLEW'ED, adjective Chapped; mouthed; deep-mouthed.
Flexanimous
FLEXAN'IMOUS, adjective [from Latin ] Having power to change the mind. [Not used.]
Flexibility
FLEXIBIL'ITY, noun [See Flexible.]
1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light.
2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper.
Flexible
FLEX'IBLE, adjective [Latin flexibilis, from flecto, flexi, to bend, plico.]
1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as a flexible rod; a flexible plant.
2. Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable.
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.
It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm.
3. Ductile; manageable; tractable; as the tender and flexible minds of youth. flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable.
4. That may be turned or accommodated.
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
Flexibleness
FLEX'IBLENESS, noun
1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.
2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier.
Flexile
FLEX'ILE, adjective [Latin flexilis.] Pliant; pliable; easily bent; yielding to power, impulse or moral force.
Flexion
FLEX'ION, noun [Latin flexio.]
1. The act of bending.
2. A bending; a part bent; a fold.
3. A turn; a cast; as a flexion of the eye.
Flexor
FLEX'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle whose office is to bend the part to which it belongs, in opposition to the extensors.
Flexuous
FLEX'UOUS, adjective [Latin flexuosus.]
1. Winding; having turns or windings; as a flexuous rivulet.
2. Bending; winding; wavering; not steady; as a flexuous flame.
3. In botany, bending or bent; changing its direction in a curve, from joint to joint, from bud to bud, or from flower to flower.
Flexure
FLEX'URE, noun [Latin flexura.]
1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.
2. The act of bending.
3. The part bent; a joint.
4. The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe.
Flicker
FLICK'ER, verb intransitive
1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying; to strike rapidly with the wings.
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
2. To fluctuate.
Flickering
FLICK'ERING, participle present tense
1. Fluttering; flapping the wings without flight.
2. adjective With amorous motions of the eye.
The fair Lavinia - looks a little flickering after Turnus.
FLICK'ERING, noun A fluttering; short irregular movements.
Flickermouse
FLICK'ERMOUSE, noun The bat.
Flier
FLI'ER, noun [See Fly. It ought to be flyer.]
1. One that flies or flees.
2. A runaway; a fugitive.
3. A part of a machine which, by moving rapidly, equalizes and regulates the motion of the whole; as the flier of a jack.
Flight
FLIGHT, noun [See Fly.]
1. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in winter. .
To put to flight to turn to flight is to compel to run away; to force to escape.
2. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volation; as the flight of birds and insects.
3. The manner of flying. Every fowl has its particular flight; the flight of the eagle is high; the flight of the swallow is rapid, with sudden turns.
4. Removal from place to place by flying.
5. A flock of birds flying in company; as a flight of pigeons or wild geese.
6. A number of beings flying or moving through the air together; as a flight of angels.
7. A number of things passing through the air together; a volley; as a flight of arrows.
8. A periodical flying of birds in flocks; as the spring flight or autumnal flight of ducks or pigeons.
9. In England, the birds produced in the same season.
10. The space passed by flying.
11. A mounting; a soaring; lofty elevation and excursion; as a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition.
12. Excursion; wandering; extravagant sally; as a flight of folly.
13. The power of flying.
14. In certain lead works, a substance that flies off in smoke.
FLIGHT of stairs, the series of stairs from the floor, or from one platform to another.
Flight-Shot
FLIGHT-SHOT, noun The distance which an arrow flies.
Flightness
FLIGHTNESS, noun The state of being flighty; wildness; slight delirium.
Flighty
FLIGHTY, adjective
1. Fleeting; swift.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook.
2. Wild; indulging the sallies of imagination.
3. Disordered in mind; somewhat delirious.
Flimflam
FLIM'FLAM, noun A freak; a trick.
Flimsiness
FLIM'SINESS, noun State or quality of being flimsy; thin, weak texture; weakness; want of substance or solidity.
Flimsy
FLIM'SY, adjective s as z. [The word is retained by the common people in New England in limsy, weak, limber, easily bending.]
1. Weak; feeble; slight; vain; without strength or solid substance; as a flimsy pretext; a flimsy excuse; flimsy objections.
2. Without strength or force; spiritless.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.
3. Thin; of loose texture; as flimsy cloth or stuff. [Little used.]
Flinch
FLINCH, verb intransitive [I have not found this word in any other language; but the sense of it occurs in blench, and not improbably it is from the same root, with a different prefix.]
1. To shrink; to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail of proceeding, or of performing any thing. Never flinch from duty. One of the parties flinched from the combat.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
2. To fail.
Flincher
FLINCH'ER, noun One who flinches or fails.
Flinching
FLINCH'ING, participle present tense Failing to undertake, perform or proceed; shrinking; withdrawing.
Flinder
FLIN'DER, noun A small piece or splinter; a fragment.
[This seems to be splinter, without the prefix.]
Fling
FLING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive flung. [Latin lego legare.]
1. To cast, send or throw from the hand; to hurl; as, to fling a stone at a bird.
Tis fate that flings the dice; and as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants, kings.
2. To dart; to cast with violence; to send forth.
He - like Jove, his lightning flung.
3. To send forth; to emit; to scatter.
Every beam new transient colors flings.
4. To throw; to drive by violence.
5. To throw to the ground; to prostrate.
The wrestler flung his antagonist.
6. To baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
To fling away, to reject; to discard.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
1. To fling down, to demolish; to ruin.
2. To throw to the ground.
To fling out, to utter; to speak; as, to fling out hard words against another.
To fling off, to baffle in the chase, to defeat of prey.
To fling in, to throw in; to make an allowance or deduction, or not to charge in an account. In settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days work.
To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door.
To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
FLING, verb intransitive
1. To flounce; to wince; to fly into violent and irregular motions. The horse began to kick and fling
2. To cast in the teeth; to utter harsh language; to sneer; to upbraid. The scold began to flout and fling
To fling out, to grow unruly or outrageous.
FLING, noun
1. A throw; a cast from the hand.
2. A gibe; a sneer; a sarcasm; a severe or contemptuous remark.
I, who love to have a fling
Both at senate house and king.
Flinger
FLING'ER, noun One who flings; one who jeers.
Flinging
FLING'ING, participle present tense Throwing; casting; jeering.
Flint
FLINT, noun
1. In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color. It is amorphous, interspersed in other stones, or in nodules or rounded lumps. Its surface is generally uneven, and covered with a rind or crust, either calcarious or argillaceous. It is very hard, strikes fire with steel, and is an ingredient in glass.
2. A piece of the above described stone used in firearms to strike fire.
3. Any thing proverbially hard; as a heart of flint
Flintheart
FLINT'HEART,
FLINT'HEARTED, adjective Having a hard, unfeeling heart.
Flinthearted
FLINT'HEARTED, a. Having a hard, unfeeling heart.
Flinty
FLINT'Y, adjective
1. Consisting of flint; as a flinty rock.
2. Like flint; very hard, not impressible; as a flinty heart.
3. Cruel; unmerciful; inexorable.
4. Full of flint stones, as flinty ground.
Flinty-slate, a mineral of two kinds, the common and the Lydian stone.
Flip
FLIP, noun A mixed liquor consisting of beer and spirit sweetened.
Flipdog
FLIP'DOG, noun An iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
Flippancy
FLIP'PANCY, noun [See Flippant.] Smoothness and rapidity of speech; volubility of tongue; fluency of speech.
Flippant
FLIP'PANT, adjective [Latin labor, to slide or slip, and to liber, free.]
1. Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
2. Pert; petulant; waggish.
Away with flippant epilogues.
Flippantly
FLIP'PANTLY, adverb Fluently; with ease and volubility of speech.
Flippantness
FLIP'PANTNESS, noun fluency of speech; volubility of tongue; flippancy.
[This is not a low, vulgar word, but well authorized and peculiarly expressive.]
Flirt
FLIRT, verb transitive flurt. [This word evidently belongs to the root of Latin floreo, or ploro, signifying to throw, and coinciding with blurt.]
1. To throw with a jerk or sudden effort or exertion. The boys flirt water in each other's faces. He flirted a glove or a handkerchief.
2. To toss or throw; to move suddenly; as, to flirt a fan.
FLIRT, verb intransitive
1. To jeer or gibe; to throw harsh or sarcastic words; to utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain.
2. To run and dart about; to be moving hastily from place to place; to be unsteady or fluttering. The girls flirt about the room or the street.
FLIRT, noun
1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
In unfurling the fan are several little flirts and vibrations.
2. A young girl who moves hastily or frequently from place to place; a pert girl.
Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
FLIRT, adjective Pert; wanton.
Flirtation
FLIRTA'TION, noun
1. A flirting; a quick sprightly motion.
2. Desire of attracting notice. [A cant word.]
Flirted
FLIRT'ED, participle passive Thrown with a sudden jerk.
Flirting
FLIRT'ING, participle present tense Throwing; jerking; tossing; darting about; rambling and changing place hastily.
Flit
FLIT, verb intransitive [Heb. It is undoubtedly from the same root as fleet, which see.]
1. To fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to move with celerity through the air. We say, a bird flits away, or flits in air; a cloud flits along.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
3. To remove; to migrate; to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
4. In Scotland, to remove from one habitation to another.
5. To be unstable; to easily or often moved.
An the free soul to flitting air resigned.
FLIT, adjective Nimble; quick; swift. obsolete [See Fleet.]
Flitch
FLITCH, noun
The side of a hog salted and cured.
Flitter
FLIT'TER, verb intransitive To flutter, which see.
FLIT'TER, noun A rag; a tatter. [See Fritter.]
Flittermouse
FLIT'TERMOUSE, noun [Flit, flitter and mouse.]
A bat; an animal that has the fur of a mouse, and membranes which answer the purpose of wings, and enable the animal to sustain itself in a fluttering flight.
Flittiness
FLIT'TINESS, noun [from flit.] Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
Flitting
FLIT'TING, participle present tense Flying rapidly; fluttering; moving swiftly.
FLIT'TING, noun A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
Flitty
FLIT'TY, adjective Unstable; fluttering.
Flix
FLIX, noun Down; fur. [Not used.]
Flixweed
FLIX'WEED, noun The Sisymbrium sophia, a species of water-cresses, growing on walls and waste grounds.
Flo
FLO, noun An arrow. [Not in use.]
Float
FLOAT, noun
1. That which swims or is borne on water; as a float of weeds and rushes. But particularly, a body or collection of timber, boards or planks fastened together and conveyed down a stream; a raft. [The latter word is more generally used in the United States.]
2. The cork or quill used on an angling line, to support it and discover the bite of a fish.
3. The act of flowing; flux; flood; the primary sense, but obsolete.
4. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one deep.
5. A wave. [Latin fuctus.]
FLOAT, verb intransitive [Latin fluo, to flow.]
1. To be borne or sustained on the surface of a fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up; not to sink; not to be aground. We say, the water is so shallow, the ship will not float
2. To move or be conveyed on water; to swim. The raft floats down the river.
Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated.
3. To be buoyed up and moved or conveyed in a fluid, as in air.
They stretch their plumes and float upon the wind.
4. To move with a light irregular course.
FLOAT, verb transitive
1. To cause to pass by swimming; to cause to be conveyed on water. The tide floated the ship into the harbor.
2. To flood; to inundate; to overflow; to cover with water.
Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands.
Float-Board
FLO'AT-BOARD, noun A board of the water-wheel of undershot mills, which receives the impulse of the stream, by which the wheel is driven.
Floatage
FLO'ATAGE, noun Any thing that floats on the water.
Floated
FLO'ATED, participle passive
1. Flooded; overflowed.
2. Borne on water.
Floater
FLO'ATER, noun One that floats or swims.
Floating
FLO'ATING, participle present tense
1. Swimming; conveying on water; overflowing.
2. Lying flat on the surface of the water; as a floating leaf.
Floating-Bridge
FLOAT'ING-BRIDGE, noun
1. In the United States, a bridge, consisting of logs or timber with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water.
2. In war, a kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys, used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.
Floatstone
FLO'ATSTONE, noun Swimming flint, spungiform quartz, a mineral of a spungy texture, of a whitish gray color, often with a tinge of yellow. It frequently contains a nucleus of common flint.
Floaty
FLO'ATY, adjective Buoyant; swimming on the surface; light.
Flocculence
FLOC'CULENCE, noun [Latin flocculus, floccus. See Flock.]
The state of being in locks or flocks; adhesion in small flakes.
Flocculent
FLOC'CULENT, adjective Coalescing and adhering in locks or flakes.
I say the liquor is broken to flocculence, when the particles of herbaceous matter, seized by those of the lime, and coalescing, appear large and flocculent
Flock
FLOCK, noun [Latin floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]
1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.
2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
3. A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]
4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.
FLOCK, verb intransitive To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.
Friends daily flock
Flocking
FLOCK'ING, participle present tense Collecting or running together in a crowd.
Flog
FLOG, verb transitive [Latin figo, to strike, that is, to lay on; Latin flagrum, flagellum, Eng. flail; Gr.; Latin plaga, a stroke, Eng. plague, slay.]
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows; a colloquial word, applied to whipping or beating for punishment; as, to flog a schoolboy or a sailor.
Flogged
FLOG'GED, participle passive Whipped or scourged for punishment; chastised.
Flogging
FLOG'GING, participle present tense Whipping for punishment; chastising.
FLOG'GING, noun A whipping for punishment.
Flood
FLOOD, noun flud.
1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water. Thus there is a flood every spring, in the Connecticut, which inundates the adjacent meadows. There is an annual flood in the Nile, and in the Mississippi.
2. The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah. Before the flood men live to a great age.
3. A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
4. The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb. The ship entered the harbor on the flood Hence flood-tide; young flood; high flood
5. A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
6. A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava. Hence, figuratively, a flood of vice.
7. Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, verb transitive To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.
Flooded
FLOOD'ED, participle passive Overflowed inundated.
Floodgate
FLOOD'GATE, noun
1. A gate to be opened for letter water flow through, or to be shut to prevent it.
2. An opening or passage; an avenue for a flood or great body.
Flooding
FLOOD'ING, participle present tense Overflowing; inundating.
FLOOD'ING, noun Any preternatural discharge of blood from the uterus.
FLOOD'-MARK, noun The mark or line to which the tide rises; high water mark.
Flook
FLOOK. See Fluke, the usual orthography.]
Flooking
FLOOK'ING, noun In mining, an interruption or shifting of a load of ore, by a cross vein or fissure.
Floor
FLOOR, noun flore. [In early ages, the inhabitants of Europe had no floor in their huts, but the ground. The sense of the word is probably that which is laid or spread.]
1. That part of a building or room on which we walk; the bottom or lower part, consisting, in modern houses, of boards, plands or pavement; as the floor of a house, room, bar, stable or outhouse.
2. A platform of boards or plans laid on timbers, as in a bridge; any similar platform.
3. A story in a building; as the first or second floor
4. A floor or earthen floor is still used in some kinds of business, made of loam, or of lime, sand and iron dust, as in malting.
5. The bottom of a ship, or that part which is nearly horizontal.
FLOOR, verb transitive To lay a floor; to cover timbers with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
Floor-Timbers
FLOOR-TIMBERS, noun The timbers on which a floor is laid.
Floored
FLOOR'ED, Covered with boards, plank or pavement; furnished with a floor.
Flooring
FLOOR'ING, participle present tense Laying a floor; furnishing with a floor.
FLOOR'ING, noun
1. A platform; the bottom of a room or building; pavement.
2. Materials for floors.
Flop
FLOP, verb transitive [A different spelling of flap.]
1. To clap or strike the wings.
2. To let down the brim of a hat.
Flora
FLO'RA, noun [See Floral.]
1. In antiquity, the goddess of flowers.
2. In modern usage, a catalogue or account of flowers or plants.
Floral
FLO'RAL, adjective [Latin floralis, from flos, a flower, which see.]
1. Containing the flower, as a floral bud; immediately attending the flower, as a floral leaf.
2. Pertaining to Flora or to flowers; as floral games; floral play.
Floren
FLOR'EN
FLOR'ENCE, noun An ancient gold coin of Edward III of six shillings sterling value, about 134 cents.
FLOR'ENCE, noun
1. A kind of cloth.
2. A kind of wine from Florence in Italy.
Florence
FLOR'ENCE, n. An ancient gold coin of Edward III of six shillings sterling value, about 134 cents.
FLOR'ENCE, n. 1. A kind of cloth.2. A kind of wine from Florence in Italy.
Florentine
FLOR'ENTINE, noun
1. A native of Florence.
2. A kind of silk cloth, so called.
Florescence
FLORES'CENCE, noun [Latin florescens, floresco. See flower.]
In botany, the season when plants expand their flowers.
Floret
FLO'RET, noun A little flower; the partial or separate little flower of an aggregate flower.
Florid
FLOR'ID, adjective [Latin floridus, from floreo, to flower.]
1. Literally, flowery; covered or abounding with flowers; but in this sense little used.
2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively red color; as a florid countenance; a florid cheek.
3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched with lively figures; splendid; brilliant; as a florid style; florid eloquence.
Floridity
FLORID'ITY, noun Freshness or brightness of color; floridness.
Floridness
FLOR'IDNESS, noun
1. Brightness or freshness of color or complexion.
2. Vigor; spirit. [Unusual.]
3. Embellishment; brilliant ornaments; ambitious elegance; applied to style.
Floriferous
FLORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin florifer, from flos, a flower, and fero, to bear.] Producing flowers.
Florification
FLORIFICA'TION, noun The act, process or time of flowering.
Florin
FLOR'IN, noun A coin, originally made at Florence. The name is given to different coins of gold or silver, and of different values in different countries. It is also used as a money of account.
Florist
FLO'RIST, noun
1. A cultivator of flowers; one skilled in flowers.
2. One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Florulent
FLOR'ULENT, adjective Flowery; blossoming. [Not in use.]
Floscular
FLOS'CULAR,
FLOS'CULE, noun [Latin flosculus.] In botany, a partial or lesser floret of an aggregate flower.
FLOS FERRI, noun [Latin flower of iron.] A mineral, a variety of arragonite, called by Jameson, after Hauy, coralloidal arragonite. It occurs in little cylinders, sometimes diverging and ending in a point, and sometimes branched, like coral. Its structure is fibrous, and the surface, which is smooth, or garnished with little crystalline points, is often very white, with a silken luster. It takes this name from its being often found in cavities in veins of sparry iron.
Floscule
FLOS'CULE, n. [L. flosculus.] In botany, a partial or lesser floret of an aggregate flower.
Flosculous
FLOS'CULOUS, adjective [infra.] In botany, a flosculous flower is a compound flower, composed entirely of florets with funnel-shaped petals, as in burdock, thistle and artichoke. This is the term used by Tournefort. For this Linne used tubulous.
Floss
FLOSS, noun [Latin flos.] A downy or silky substance in the husks of certain plants.
Flossification
FLOSSIFICA'TION, noun A flowering; expansion of flowers. [Novel.]
Flota
FLO'TA, noun [See Fleet.] A fleet; but appropriately a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Crus, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
Flotage
FLO'TAGE, noun That which floats on the sea, or on rivers. [Little used.]
Flote
FLOTE, verb transitive To skim. [Not used or local.]
Flotilla
FLOTIL'LA, noun [dim. of flota.] A little fleet, or fleet of small vessels.
Flotsam
FLOT'SAM,
FLOT'SON, noun [from float.] Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea. When such goods are cast on shore or found, the owner being unknown, they belong to the king.
Flotten
FLOT'TEN, participle passive Skimmed. [Not in use.]
Flounce
FLOUNCE, verb intransitive flouns. [See Flounder.]
1. 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.
You neither fume, not fret, not flounce
2. To move with jerks or agitation.
FLOUNCE, verb transitive To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.
FLOUNCE, noun A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.
Flounder
FLOUN'DER, noun A flat fish of the genus Pleuronectes.
FLOUN'DER, verb intransitive [This seems to be allied to flaunt and flounce.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle as a horse in the mire; to roll, toss and tumble.
Floundering
FLOUN'DERING, participle present tense Making irregular motions; struggling with violence.
Flour
FLOUR, noun [originally flower; Latin flos, floris, from floreo, to flourish.]
The edible part of corn; meal. In the United States, the modern practice is to make a distinction between flour and meal; the word flour being more usually applied to the finer part of meal, separated from the bran, as wheat flour rye flour This is a just and useful distinction.
FLOUR, verb transitive
1. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour Wheat used formerly to be sent to market; but now great quantities of it are floured in the interior country.
2. To sprinkle with flour
Floured
FLOUR'ED, participle passive Converted into flour; sprinkled with flour.
Flouring
FLOUR'ING, participle present tense Converting into flour; sprinkling with flour.
Flourish
FLOURISH, verb intransitive flur'ish. [Latin floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, Latin ploro.]
1. To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant. The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.
2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish and that by the means of their wickedness.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish .
3. To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion.
The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree. .
4. To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish
5. To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery.
They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
6. To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.
7. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.
Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o're his head.
8. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.
9. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
FLOURISH, verb transitive flur'ish.
1. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.
2. To spread out; to enlarge into figures.
3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.
4. 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.
5. To adorn; to embellish.
6. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.
The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.
FLOURISH, noun flur'ish.
1. Beauty; showy splendor.
The flourish of his sober youth.
2. Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
3. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.
4. A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.
Flourished
FLOURISHED, participle passive flur'ished. Embellished; adorned with bold and irregular figures or lines; brandished.
Flourisher
FLOURISHER, noun flur'isher.
1. One who flourishes; one who thrives or prospers.
2. One who brandishes.
3. One who adorns with fanciful figures.
Flourishing
FLOURISHING, participle present tense or adjective flur'ishing. Thriving; prosperous; increasing; making a show.
Flourishingly
FLOURISHINGLY, adverb flur'ishingly. With flourishes; ostentatiously.
Flout
FLOUT, verb transitive To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Phillida flouts me.
He flouted us downright.
FLOUT, verb intransitive To practice mocking; to sneer; to behave with contempt.
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout
FLOUT, noun A mock; an insult.
Flouted
FLOUT'ED, participle passive Mocked; treated with contempt.
Flouter
FLOUT'ER, noun One who flouts and flings; a mocker.
Flouting
FLOUT'ING, participle present tense Mocking; insulting; fleering.
Floutingly
FLOUT'INGLY, adverb With flouting; insultingly.
Flow
FLOW, verb intransitive [Latin fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum. In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, Latin flo; in the other, with the root of fly.]
1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid. A solid body descends or moves in mass, as a ball or a wheel; but in the flowing of liquid substances, and others consisting of very fine particles, there is a constant change of the relative position of some parts of the substance, as in the case with a stream of water, of quicksilver, and of sand. Particles at the bottom and sides of the stream, being somewhat checked by friction, move slower than those in the middle and near the surface of the current. Rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
2. To melt; to become liquid.
That the mountains might flow down at they presence.
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3. To proceed; to issue. Evils flow from different sources. Wealth flows from industry and economy. All our blessings flow from divine bounty
4. To abound; to have in abundance.
In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. .
5. To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
6. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
7. To be smooth, as composition or utterance. The orator has a flowing tongue.
Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
8. To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
9. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. The tide flows twice in twenty four hours.
10. To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
11. To issue, as rays or beams of light.
Light flows from the sun.
12. To move in a stream, as air.
FLOW, verb transitive To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.
FLOW, noun
1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.
2. A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.
3. A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.
4. Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.
5. A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.
6. Free expression or communication of generous feelings and sentiments.
The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.
Flowed
FLOWED, participle passive Overflowed; inundated.
Flower
FLOW'ER, noun [Latin flos, floris, a flower; floreo, to blossom. See Flourish.]
1. In botany, that part of a plant which contains the organs of fructification, with their coverings. A flower when complete, consists of a calyx, corol, stamen and pistil; but the essential parts are the anther and stigma, which are sufficient to constitute a flower either together in hermaphrodite flowers, or separate in male and female flowers.
2. In vulgar acceptation, a blossom or flower is the flower bud of a plant, when the petals are expanded; open petals being considered as the principal thing in constituting a flower But in botany, the petals are now considered as a finer sort of covering, and not at all necessary to constitute a flower
3. The early part of life, or rather of manhood; the prime; youthful vigor; youth; as the flower of age or of life.
4. The best or finest part of a thing; the most valuable part. The most active and vigorous part of an army are called the flower of the troops. Young, vigorous and brave men are called the flower of a nation.
5. The finest part; the essence.
The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
6. He or that which is most distinguished for any thing valuable. We say, the youth are the flower of the country.
7. The finest part of grain pulverized. In this sense, it is now always written flour, which see.
1. Flowers, in chimistry, fine particles of bodies, especially when raised by fire in sublimation, and adhering to the heads of vessels in the form of a powder or mealy substance; as the flowers of sulphur.
A substance, somewhat similar, formed spontaneously, is called efforescence.
2. In rhetoric, figures and ornaments of discourse or composition.
3. Menstrual discharges.
FLOW'ER, verb intransitive [from the noun. The corresponding word in Latin is floreo.]
1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant. In New England peach trees usually flower in April, and apple trees in May.
2. To be in the prime and spring of life; to flourish; to be youthful, fresh and vigorous.
When flowered my youthful spring.
3. To froth; to ferment gently; to mantle, as new beer.
The beer did flower a little.
4. To come as cream from the surface.
FLOW'ER, verb transitive To embellish with figures of flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers.
Flower-De-Lis
FLOW'ER-DE-LIS, noun
1. In heraldry, a bearing representing a lily, the hieroglyphic of royal majesty.
2. In botany, the Iris, a genus of monogynian trianders, called also flag-flower, and often written incorrectly flower-de-luce. The species are numerous.
Flower-Fence
FLOW'ER-FENCE, noun The name of certain plants. The flower-fence of Barbados is of the genus Poinciana. The bastard flower-fence is the Adenanthera.
Flower-Garden
FLOW'ER-G'ARDEN, noun A garden in which flowers are chiefly cultivated.
Flower-Gentle
FLOW'ER-GENTLE, noun A plant, the amaranth.
Flower-Inwoven
FLOWER-INWO'VEN, adjective Adorned with flowers.
Flower-Kirtled
FLOW'ER-KIRTLED, adjective Dressed with garlands of flowers.
Flower-Stalk
FLOW'ER-STALK, noun In botany, the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.
Flowered
FLOW'ERED, participle passive Embellished with figures of flowers.
Floweret
FLOW'ERET, noun A small flower; a floret.
[In botany, floret is solely used.]
Floweriness
FLOW'ERINESS, noun [from flowery.]
1. The state of being flowery, or of abounding with flowers.
2. Floridness of speech; abundance of figures.
Flowering
FLOW'ERING, participle present tense
1. Blossoming; blooming; expanding the petals, as plants.
2. Adorning with artificial flowers, or figures of blossoms.
FLOW'ERING, noun
1. The season when plants blossom.
2. The act of adorning with flowers.
Flowerless
FLOW'ERLESS, adjective Having no flower.
Flowery
FLOW'ERY, adjective
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms; as a flowery field.
2. Adorned with artificial flowers, or the figures of blossoms.
3. Richly embellished with figurative language; florid; as a flowery style.
Flowing
FLOWING, participle present tense Moving as a fluid; issuing; proceeding; abounding; smooth, as style; inundating.
FLOWING, noun The act of running or moving as a fluid; an issuing; an overflowing; rise of water.
Flowingly
FLOWINGLY, adverb With volubility; with abundance.
Flowingness
FLOWINGNESS, noun Smoothness of diction; stream of diction.
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.