Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 32
Flagrancy (n.) 惡名昭彰 The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. -- Steele.
Flagrant (a.) 非常的，不能容忍的，惡名昭著的 Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. -- Prior.
A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. -- De Quincey.
Flagrant desires and affections. -- Hooker.
Flagrant (a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. -- Palfrey.
Flagrant (a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Syn: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
Flagrant (a.) Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank].
Flagrantly (adv.) 千真萬確地；太甚地 In a flagrant manner.
Flagrantly (adv.) In a flagrant manner; "he is flagrantly disregarding the law".
Flagrate (v. t.) 標記顯現 To burn. [Obs.] -- Greenhill.
Flagration (n.) A conflagration. [Obs.]
Flagship (n.) (Naut.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
Flagship (n.) The chief one of a related group; "it is their flagship newspaper".
Flagship (n.) The ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag.
-staves (n. pl. ) of Flagstaff.
-staffs (n. pl. ) of Flagstaff.
Flagstaff (n.) A staff [4] on which a flag is hoisted.
Flagstaff (n.) A town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory.
Flagstaff (n.) A tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised [syn: flagpole, flagstaff].
Flagstaff, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
Population (2000): 52894
Housing Units (2000): 21396
Land area (2000): 63.579496 sq. miles (164.670132 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.036838 sq. miles (0.095411 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 63.616334 sq. miles (164.765543 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23620
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 35.199160 N, 111.630991 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 86001 86004
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Flagstaff, AZ
Flagstaff
Flagstone (n.) A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Flagstone (n.) Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones [syn: flag, flagstone].
Flagworm (n.) (Zool.) A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Flail (n.) 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.
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. -- Milton.
Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. -- Fairholt.
No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. -- Macaulay.
Flail (n.) An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing.
Flail (v.) Give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail].
Flail (v.) Move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" [syn: flail, thresh].
Flaily (a.) Acting like a flail. [Obs.] -- Vicars.
Flain () p. p. of Flay.
Flair (n.) 天資；（特別的）才能；敏銳的感覺力；鑑別力 Smell; odor. [Obs.]
Compare: Odor
Odor (n.) [Countable, uncountable] (Formal) 氣味；香氣；臭氣 [C]；意味 [C]； 名聲，聲譽 [U] [C] A smell, especially one that is unpleasant.
// A foul/ musty/ pungent, etc. odor.
// The stale odor of cigarette smoke.
Odor (n.) (Figurative)
// The odor of suspicion.
See B ody odor
Idioms
Be in good/ bad odor (with somebody) (Formal) To have/ not have someone's approval and support.
Flair (n.) Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.
Flair (n.) A talent or ability, expecially an intuitive one that makes performance of a task appear easy; an intuitive appreciation; a knack; as, she has a flair for acting.
Flair (n.) An attractive way of performing a task; style.
Flair (n.) A natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" [syn: flair, genius].
Flair (n.) Distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style].
Flair (n.) A shape that spreads outward; "the skirt had a wide flare" [syn: flare, flair].
Flake (n.) 薄片，小片，火星，曬魚的架子 A paling; a hurdle.
Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Flake (n.) 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.
Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Flaked (imp. & p. p.) of Flake.
Flaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flake.
Flake (v. t.) 使成薄片 To form into flakes.
Flake (v. i.) 剝落 To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Flake (n.) 【美】【俚】怪僻的人 A person who behaves strangely; a flaky [2] person.
Flake (n.) A crystal of snow [syn: {snowflake}, {flake}].
Flake (n.) A person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: {eccentric}, {eccentric person}, {flake}, {oddball}, {geek}].
Flake (n.) A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: {bit}, {chip}, {flake}, {fleck}, {scrap}].
Flake (v.) Form into flakes; "The substances started to flake".
Flake (v.) Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
Flake (v.) Come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" [syn: {peel off}, {peel}, {flake off}, {flake}].
Flakiness (n.) The state of being flaky.
Flaky (a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Flam (n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Flammed (imp. & p. p.) of Flam.
Flamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flam.
Flam (v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
Flambeaux (n. pl. ) of Flambeau.
Flambeaus (n. pl. ) of Flambeau.
Flambeau (n.) 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.
Flamboyance (n.) 火紅；豔麗；浮誇；浮華；炫耀 The quality or state of being flamboyant.
Flamboyant (a.) 輝耀的，華麗的，火焰似的 Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Flamboyant (a.) Marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: {flamboyant}, {showy}, {splashy}].
Flamboyant (a.) Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: {aureate}, {florid}, {flamboyant}].
Flamboyant (n.) 鳳凰木 (一種熱帶樹) Showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: {royal poinciana}, {flamboyant}, {flame tree}, {peacock flower}, {Delonix regia}, {Poinciana regia}].
Flamboyer (n.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
Flame (n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
Flame (n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." -- Milton.
Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. -- Pope.
Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. -- Pope.
Flame (n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love. -- Coleridge.
Flame (n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart. -- Thackeray.
Syn: Blaze; brightness; ardor. See Blaze.
Flame bridge, A bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
Flame color, Brilliant orange or yellow. -- B. Jonson.
Flame engine, An early name for the gas engine.
Flame manometer, An instrument, invented by Koenig, to obtain graphic representation of the action of the human vocal organs. See Manometer.
Flame reaction (Chem.), A method of testing for the presence of certain elements by the characteristic color imparted to a flame; as, sodium colors a flame yellow, potassium violet, lithium crimson, boracic acid green, etc. Cf. Spectrum analysis, under Spectrum.
Flame tree (Bot.), A tree with showy scarlet flowers, as the Rhododendron arboreum in India, and the Brachychiton acerifolium of Australia.
Flamed (imp. & p. p.) of Flame.
Flaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flame.
Flame (v. i.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again. -- Shak.
Flame (v. i.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
He flamed with indignation. -- Macaulay.
Flame (v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly. -- Spenser.
Flame (n.) The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame, flaming].
Flame (v.) Shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment" [syn: flare, flame].
Flame (v.) Be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset".
Flame (v.) Criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium; "the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed".
FLAME, () FLexible API for Module-based Environments (RL, API)
Flame (v. i.) To post an email message intended to insult and provoke.
Flame (v. i.) To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude.
Flame (v. t.) Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people.
Flame (n.) An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants ?Now you're just flaming? or ? Stop all that flamage!? to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).
The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s.
It is possible that the hackish sense of ?flame? is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called ?the fleminge of wrecches.? This phrase seems to have been intended in context as ?that which puts the wretches to flight? but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as ?the flaming of wretches? would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.
Flame
Flamage
Flaming
To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/ or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility toward a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single flaming message, and "flamage" /flay'm*j/ the content.
Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, electronic mail, Usenet news, web). Sometimes a flame will be delimited in text by marks such as "...".
The term was probably independently invented at several different places.
Mark L. Levinson says, "When I joined the Harvard student radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were already well established there to refer to impolite ranting and to those who performed it. Communication among the students who worked at the station was by means of what today you might call a paper-based Usenet group. Everyone wrote comments to one another in a large ledger. Documentary evidence for the early use of flame/ flamer is probably still there for anyone fanatical enough to research it."
It is reported that "flaming" was in use to mean something like "interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions" (late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during 1968-1971.
Usenetter Marc Ramsey, who was at WPI from 1972 to 1976, says: "I am 99% certain that the use of "flame" originated at WPI. Those who made a nuisance of themselves insisting that they needed to use a TTY for "real work" came to be known as "flaming asshole lusers". Other particularly annoying people became "flaming asshole ravers", which shortened to "flaming ravers", and ultimately "flamers". I remember someone picking up on the Human Torch pun, but I don't think "flame on/ off" was ever much used at WPI." See also asbestos.
It is possible that the hackish sense of "flame" is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet. [{Jargon File] (2001-03-11)
Flame-colored (a.) Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. -- Shak.
Flame-colored (a.) Having the brilliant orange-red color of flames [syn: flame-colored, flame-coloured].
Flameless (a.) Destitute of flame. -- Sandys.
Flamelet (n.) A small flame.
Flammens (n. pl. ) of Flamen.
Flamines (n. pl. ) of Flamen.
Flamen (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) 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.
Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. -- Milton.
Flamineous (a.) Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
Flaming (a.) Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
Flaming (a.) Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." -- Prior.
Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
Compare: Colorful
Colorful (a.) 富有色彩的；鮮豔的；多姿多采的；富有趣味的；生動的 Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
Flaming (a.) Informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)].
Flaming (a.) Very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery, flaming].
Flaming (n.) The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame, flaming].
Flamingly (adv.) In a flaming manner.
Flamingoes (n. pl. ) of Flamingo.
Flamingo (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Flaminical (a.) Pertaining to a flamen. -- Milton.
Flammability (n.) The quality of being flammable; inflammability. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Flammability (n.) The quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly [syn: flammability, inflammability].
Flammable (a.) 易燃的；可燃的；速燃的 Inflammable. [Obs.]
Flammable (a.) Easily ignited [syn: flammable, inflammable].
Flammable (a.) 易燃的 Something that is flammable burns easily.
// Caution! This solvent is highly flammable.
Flammable (n.) (pl. Flammables) 易燃物；可燃物；速燃物 Any flammable substance.
Flammation (n.) The act of setting in a flame or blaze. [Obs.] -- Sir. T. Browne.
Flammeous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Flammiferous (a.) Producing flame.
Flammivomous (a.) Vomiting flames, as a volcano. -- W. Thompson. (1745).
Flammulated (a.) Of a reddish color.
Flamy (a.) 火焰（般）的 Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame. -- Pope.
Flanches (n. pl. ) of Flanch.
Flanch (n.) A flange. [R.]. (Her.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
Note: Flanches are always in pairs. A pair of flanches is considered one of the subordinaries.
Flanch (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
Flanched (a.) (Her.) Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
Flanconade (n.) (Fencing) A thrust in the side.
Flaneur (n.) One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
Flang (n.) A miner's two-pointed pick.
Flange (n.) 邊緣；輪緣；凸緣；法蘭 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. -- Knight.
Flange (n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
Blind flange, A plate for covering or closing the end of a pipe.
Flange joint, A joint, as that of pipes, where the connecting pieces have flanges by which the parts are bolted together. -- Knight.
Flange rail, A rail with a flange on one side, to keep wheels, etc. from running off.
Flange turning, The process of forming a flange on a wrought iron plate by bending and hammering it when hot.
Flanged (imp. & p. p.) of Flange.
Flanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flange.
Flange (v. t.) 裝凸緣 To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
Flange (v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
Flange (n.) A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object [syn: flange, rim].
Flanged (a.) Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
Flank (n.) 脅；脅腹；側面；廂房 The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
Flank (n.) (Mil.) 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.
When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired. -- Milton.
Flank (n.) (Fort.) 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. See Illust. of Bastion.
Flank (n.) (Arch.) The side of any building. -- Brands.
Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Flank attack (Mil.), An attack upon the side of an army or body of troops, distinguished from one upon its front or rear.
Flank company (Mil.), A certain number of troops drawn up on the right or left of a battalion; usually grenadiers, light infantry, or riflemen.
Flank defense (Fort.), Protection of a work against undue exposure to an enemy's direct fire, by means of the fire from other works, sweeping the ground in its front.
Flank en potence (Mil.), Any part of the right or left wing formed at a projecting angle with the line.
Flank files, The first men on the right, and the last on the left, of a company, battalion, etc.
Flank march, A march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order to turn it or to attack him on the flank.
Flank movement, A change of march by an army, or portion of one, in order to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position.
Flanks of a frontier, Salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion.
Flank patrol, Detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secure it against surprise and to observe the movements of the enemy.
Flanked (imp. & p. p.) of Flank.
Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flank.
Flank (v. t.) 位於……的側面（或兩側）[H] [（+with/ by）]； 經過……的側面 To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
Stately colonnades are flanked with trees. -- Pitt.
Flank (v. t.) 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.
Flank (v. i.) （堡壘等）側面相接 [（+on/ upon）] To border; to touch. -- Bp. Butler.
Flank (v. i.) To be posted on the side.
Flank (n.) The side of military or naval formation; "they attacked the enemy's right flank" [syn: flank, wing].
Flank (n.) A subfigure consisting of a side of something.
Flank (n.) A cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg.
Flank (n.) The side between ribs and hipbone.
Flank (v.) Be located at the sides of something or somebody.
Flanker (n.) 兩側的東西；（部隊前進時的）側衛；側面堡壘 One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army to guard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants. -- W. Irwing.
Flankered (imp. & p. p.) of Flanker.
Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flanker.
Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications. [Obs.] -- Sir T.
Flanker (v. t.) To attack sideways. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Flanker (n.) 兩側的東西；（部隊前進時的）側衛 A back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver [syn: flanker back, flanker]
Flanker (n.) A soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation
Flannel (n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. -- Shak.