Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 33
Flanneled (a.) Covered or wrapped in flannel.
Flannen (a.) Made or consisting of flannel.
Flap (v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
Flap (v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
Flap (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
Flap (v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
Flapped (imp. & p. p.) of Flap.
Flapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flap.
Flap (n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
Flap (n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
Flap (v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
Flapdragon (n.) The thing thus caught and eaten.
Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
Flap-eared (a.) Having broad, loose, dependent ears.
Flapjack (n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Flapjack (n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.
Flap-mouthed (a.) Having broad, hangling lips.
Flapper (n.) One who, or that which, flaps.
Flapper (n.) See Flipper.
Flared (imp. & p. p.) of Flare.
Flaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flare.
Flare (v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Flare (v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
Flare (v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
Flare (v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
Flare (v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
Flare (n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
Flare (n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
Flare (n.) Leaf of lard.
Flare-up (n.) A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
Flaring (a.) That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
Flaring (a.) Opening or speading outwards.
Flaringly (adv.) In a flaring manner.
Flashed (imp. & p. p.) of Flash.
Flashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash.
Flash (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
Flash (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles. -- Talfourd.
The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. -- M. Arnold.
A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. -- Tennyson.
Flash (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other. -- Shak.
Flash in the pan, A failure or a poor performance, especially after a normal or auspicious start; also, a person whose initial performance appears augur success but who fails to achieve anything notable. From 4th pan, n., sense 3 -- part of a flintlock. Occasionally, the powder in the pan of a flintlock would flash without conveying the fire to the charge, and the ball would fail to be discharged. Thus, a good or even spectacular beginning that eventually achieves little came to be called a flash in the pan.
To flash in the pan, To fail of success, especially after a normal or auspicious start. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. -- Bartlett.
Syn: Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister.
Usage:
Flash differs from glitter and gleam, 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. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of
appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from
exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report.
To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes
suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.
Flash (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth
with sudden flame or light.
The
chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames. -- Milton.
Flash (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden
flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on
the mind.
Flash (v. t.) (Glass Making) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
Flash (n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
Limning and flashing it with various dyes. -- A. Brewer.
Flash (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.]
He rudely flashed the waves about. -- Spenser.
Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.
Flashes (n. pl. ) of Flash.
Flash (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
Flash (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. -- Shak.
No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy. -- Wirt.
Flash (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period; as, I'll be back in a flash.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. -- Bacon.
Flash (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
Flash (n.) A lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph; as, to take a picture without a flash.
Syn: flashbulb, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun.
Flash (n.) Same as flashlight. [informal]
Flash (n.) (Journalism) A short news item providing recently received and usually preliminary information about an event that is considered important enough to interrupt normal broadcasting or other news delivery services; also called a news flash or bulletin.
Flash light, or Flashing light, A kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. -- Knight.
Flash in the pan, The flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.
Flash (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
Flash (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
Flash house, A house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." -- Macaulay.
Flash (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
Flash (n.) A pool. [Prov. Eng.] -- Haliwell.
Flash (n.) (Engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
Flash wheel (Mech.), A paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.
Flash (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].
Flash (n.) A sudden intense burst of radiant energy.
Flash (n.) A momentary brightness.
Flash (n.) A short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning" [syn: flash, flashing].
Flash (n.) A sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition."
Flash (n.) A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute].
Flash (n.) A gaudy outward display [syn: ostentation, fanfare, flash].
Flash (n.) A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate [syn: flare, flash].
Flash (n.) A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story [syn: news bulletin, newsflash, flash, newsbreak].
Flash (n.) A bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to."
Flash (n.) A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph [syn: flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb].
Flash (v.) Gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle].
Flash (v.) Appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen."
Flash (v.) Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car" [syn: flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank].
Flash (v.) Make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts."
Flash (v.) Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot].
Flash (v.) Expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill."
Flash (v.) Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the Roof."
Flash (v.) Emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was Gone."
Flash, () Shockwave Flash (Or "Shockwave Flash") A file format for delivering interactive vector graphics and animation on the web, developed by Macromedia. (1998-07-07)
Flash
Talk bomb
1. Adobe Flash.
2. Flash memory.
3. A program to flood a Unix user's terminal with garbage by exploiting a security hole in the talk daemon.
(1996-09-08)
Flashboard (n.) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]
Flashboard (n.) Boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height [syn: flashboard, flashboarding].
Flasher (n.) One who, or that which, flashes.
Flasher (n.) A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
Flasher (n.) (Zool.) A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas ({Lobotes Surinamensis).
Flasher (n.) (Zool.) The European red-backed shrike ({Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
Flasher (n.) An exhibitionist [1], especially a male, who briefly exposes his private parts in a public place.
Triple-tail (n.) (Zool.) An edible fish ({Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
Flasher (n.) Someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals [syn: exhibitionist, flasher].
Flasher (n.) An electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display).
Flasher (n.) A light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages [syn: blinker, flasher].
Flasher, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 285
Housing Units (2000): 155
Land area (2000): 0.698469 sq. miles (1.809026 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009061 sq. miles (0.023468 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.707530 sq. miles (1.832494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26660
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.454942 N, 101.232920 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Flasher, ND
Flasher
Flashily (adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.
Flashily (adv.) In a meretricious manner; "the boat is meretriciously decorated" [syn: meretriciously, flashily].
Flashily (adv.) In a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly" [syn: flamboyantly, showily, flashily].
Flashiness (n.) The quality of being flashy.
Flashiness (n.) Tasteless showiness [syn: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz].
Flashing (n.) (Engineering) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Flashing (n.) (Arch.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
Flashing (n.) (Glass Making) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
Flashing (n.) (Glass Making) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. -- Knight.
Flashing point (Chem.), That degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100[deg] F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor. Usually called flash point.
Flashing (n.) A short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning" [syn: flash, flashing].
Flashing (n.) Sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and Weatherproofing.
Flashlight (n.) [C]【美】手電筒；（照相機等的）閃光燈；（燈塔等的）閃光信號燈 A portable battery-powered electric lamp, small enough to be held in one hand; -- it is most commonly cylindrical, but other forms are also made. It is called in Britain a {torch}.
Syn: torch.
Flashlight (n.) A small portable battery-powered electric lamp [syn: {flashlight}, {torch}].
Flashy (a.) Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
A little flashy and transient pleasure. -- Barrow.
Flashy (a.) Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
A temper always flashy. -- Burke.
Flashy (a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
Flashy (a.) Without taste or spirit.
Lean and flashy songs. -- Milton.
Flashy (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].
Flashy (a.) (Used especially of clothes) Marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty].
Flask (n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
Flask (n.) A bed in a gun carriage. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Flask (n.) (Founding) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Erlenmeyer flask, A thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it.
Florence flask. [From Florence in Italy.] (a) Same as Betty, n., 3.
Florence flask. (b) A glass flask, round or pear-shaped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions.
Pocket flask, A kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.
Flask (n.) Bottle that has a narrow neck.
Flask (n.) The quantity a flask will hold [syn: flask, flaskful].
FLASK, () FLux Advanced Security Kernel (DTOS).
Flasket (n.) A long, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.]
In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. -- Spenser.
Flasket (n.) A small flask.
Flasket (n.) A vessel in which viands are served. [Obs.] -- Pope. flat-bottom
Flat (a.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. -- Milton.
Flat (a.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! -- Milton.
I feel . . . my hopes all flat. -- Milton.
Flat (a.) (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. -- Coleridge.
Flat (a.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
Flat (a.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. -- Shak.
Flat (a.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
Flat (a.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Syn: flat-out.
Flat burglary as ever was committed. -- Shak.
A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. -- Marston.
Flat (a.) (Mus.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
Flat (a.) (Mus.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
Flat (a.) (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
Flat (a.) (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
Flat (a.) (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.
Flat (a.) (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
Flat cap, Cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
Flat chasing, In fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. -- Knight.
Flat chisel, A sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
Flat file, A file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File.
Flat nail, A small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. -- Knight.
Flat paper, Paper which has not been folded.
Flat rail, A railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
Flat rods (Mining), Horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. -- Raymond.
Flat rope, A rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. -- Knight.
Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
Flat stitch, The process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- Flat tint (Painting), A coat of water color of one uniform shade.
To fall flat (Fig.), To produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. -- Lord Erskine.
Flat (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. -- Herbert.
Flat (adv.) (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. -- Bacon.
Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. -- Shak.
Flat (n.) Something broad and flat in form; as:
Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
Flat (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
Flat (n.) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
Flat (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
Flat (n.) (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself; an apartment taking up a whole floor. In this latter sense, the usage is more common in British English.
Flat (n.) (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. -- Raymond.
Flat (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.]
Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. -- Holmes.