Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 37
Flickering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flicker.
Flicker (v. i.) To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. -- Dryden.
Flicker (v. i.) To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
The shadows flicker to fro. -- Tennyson.
Flicker (n.) The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
Flicker (n.) (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. -- Thoureau.
Flicker (n.) A momentary flash of light [syn: flicker, spark, glint].
Flicker (n.) North American woodpecker.
Flicker (n.) The act of moving back and forth [syn: waver, flutter, flicker].
Flicker (v.) Move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver].
Flicker (v.) Shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered" [syn: flicker, flick].
Flicker (v.) Flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off" [syn: flicker, flick].
Flickeringly (adv.) In a flickering manner.
Flickermouse (n.) (Zool.) See Flittermouse.
Flittermouse (n.) (Zool.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flidge (a.) Fledged; fledge. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Flidge (v. i.) To become fledged; to fledge. [Obs.]
Every day build their nests, every hour flidge. -- R. Greene.
Flier (v.) One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive. -- Shak.
Flier (v.) (Mach.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
Flier (n.) (Spinning) See Flyer, n., 5.
Flier (n.) (Arch.) See Flyer, n., 4.
Flier (n.) An a["e]roplane or flying machine.
Flier (n.) Someone who travels by air [syn: flier, flyer].
Flier (n.) Someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer].
Flier (n.) An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway].
Flight (n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
Like the night owl's lazy flight. -- Shak.
Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. -- Matt. xxiv. 20.
Fain by flight to save themselves. -- Shak.
Flight (n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soaring; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. -- Byron.
His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. -- Macaulay.
Flight (n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. -- Swift.
Swift flights of angels ministrant. -- Milton.
Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. -- Shak.
Flight (n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. -- Parker.
Flight
(n.) A
kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
[Obs.]
Challenged Cupid at the flight. -- Shak.
Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. -- Beau. & Fl.
Flight (n.) The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Flight (n.) A trip made by or in a flying vehicle, as an airplane, spacecraft, or aeronautical balloon.
Flight (n.) A scheduled flight [8] on a commercial airline; as, the next flight leaves at 8 o'clock.
Flight feathers (Zool.), The wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird.
To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.
To take a flight [9], To make a trip in an airplane, especially a scheduled flight [9].
Syn: Pair; set. See Pair.
Flight (n.) A formation of aircraft in flight.
Flight (n.) An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him" [syn: flight, flying].
Flight (n.) A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next [syn: flight, flight of stairs, flight of steps].
Flight (n.) The act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" [syn: escape, flight].
Flight (n.) An air force unit smaller than a squadron.
Flight (n.) Passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination".
Flight (n.) The path followed by an object moving through space [syn: trajectory, flight].
Flight (n.) A flock of flying birds.
Flight (n.) A scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; "I took the noon flight to Chicago."
Flight (v.) Shoot a bird in flight.
Flight (v.) Fly in a flock; "flighting wild geese."
Flight (v.) Decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow" [syn: fledge, flight].
Flight, () crim. law. The evading the course of justice, by a man's voluntarily withdrawing himself. 4 Bl. Com. 387. Vide Fugitive from justice.
Flighted (a.) Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
Flighted (a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.
Flighter (n.) (Brewing) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
Flightily (adv.) In a flighty manner.
Flightiness (n.) The state or quality of being flighty.
The flightness of her temper. -- Hawthorne.
Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
Flightiness (n.) The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness].
Flight-shot (n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. -- Evelyn.
Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. -- Sir W. Scott.
Flighty (a.) Fleeting; swift; transient.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. -- Shak.
Flighty (a.) Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. -- Coleridge.
A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. -- J. S. Harford.
Flighty (a.) Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained].
Flighty (a.) Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn: skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous].
Flimflam (n.) A freak; a trick; a lie. -- Beau. & Fl.
Flimflam (n.) A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam].
Flimsily (adv.) In a flimsy manner.
Flimsily (adv.) In a weak and flimsy manner; "this car is so flimsily constructed!"
Flimsiness (n.) The state or quality of being flimsy.
Flimsiness (n.) The property of weakness by virtue of careless construction [syn: flimsiness, shoddiness].
Flimsy (a.) 脆弱的；易損壞的；輕薄的；（藉口、辯解等）淺薄的，不周密的 Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. -- Pope.
All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. -- Sheridan.
Syn: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.
Flimsy (n.) 薄紙；複寫紙；打字紙 [C] Thin or transfer paper.
Flimsy (n.) A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]
Flimsy (a.) Lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction."
Flimsy (a.) Not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile" [syn: unconvincing, flimsy] [ant: convincing].
Flimsy (a.) Lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame" [syn: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin].
Flimsy (n.) A thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies [syn: onionskin, flimsy].
Flinch (n.) The act of flinching.
Flinched (imp. & p. p.) of Flinch.
Flinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flinch.
Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. -- Locke.
Flinch (v. i.) (Croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Flinch (n.) A reflex response to sudden pain [syn: wince, flinch].
Flinch (v.) Draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail].
Flincher (n.) One who flinches or fails.
Flinchingly (adv.) In a flinching manner.
Flindermouse (n.) (Zool.) A bat; a flittermouse.
Flittermouse (n.) (Zool.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. -- Sir W. Scott.
Flinders (n.) British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders].
Flinders (n.) Bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage."
Flung (imp. & p. p.) of Fling.
Flinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fling.
Fling (v. t.) （用力地）扔，擲，拋，丟 [O]；使突然陷入 [（+into）] To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. -- Dryden.
He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. -- Dryden.
I know thy generous temper well.
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire. -- Addison.
Fling (v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. -- Milton.
Every beam new transient colors flings. -- Pope.
Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. -- Walpole.
To fling about, To throw on all sides; to scatter.
To fling away, To reject; to discard.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. -- Shak.
To fling down. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge.
This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. -- Tennyson.
To fling down. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin.
To fling in, To throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work.
To fling off, To baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. -- Addison.
To fling open, To throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door.
To fling out, To utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another.
To fling up, To relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
Fling (v. i.) 猛衝，直奔；急行 [Q]；（馬等）亂踢 [（+out）] To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
Fling (v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
Fling (v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
And crop-full, out of doors he flings. -- Milton.
I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. -- Mrs. Browning.
To fling out, To become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.
Fling (n.) 扔，擲，拋 [C]；（手，腳等的）揮動 [C] A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
Fling (n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king. -- Swift.
Fling (n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
Fling (n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.]
England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. -- Old Proverb.
Fling (n.) A short period during which one indulges one's wishes, whims, or desires in an unrestrained manner.
Fling (n.) A love affair.
Fling (n.) A casual or brief attempt to accomplish something. [informal].
Syn: shot.
Fling (n.) A period during which one tries a new activity; as, he took a fling at playing tennis.
To have one's fling, To enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. -- J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." -- D. Jerrold.
Fling (n.) A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer].
Fling (n.) A brief indulgence of your impulses [syn: spree, fling].
Fling (n.) The act of flinging.
Fling (v.) Throw with force or recklessness; "fling the Frisbee."
Fling (v.) Move in an abrupt or headlong manner; "He flung himself onto the sofa."
Fling (v.) Indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV" [syn: splurge, fling].
Fling (v.) Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away].
Flingdust (n.) One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
Flinger (n.) One who flings; one who jeers.
Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.
Flint-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted. -- Shak.
Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. -- Beau. & Fl.
Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
Flintlock (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
Flintlock (n.) A muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock [syn: flintlock, firelock].
Flintlock (n.) An obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge.
Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. -- Knight.
Flintwood (n.) (Bot.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Flinty (a.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Flinty rock, or Flinty state, A siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
Flinty (a.) Containing flint.
Flinty (a.) Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony].
Flip (n.) A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
Flip dog, An iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
Flipped (imp. & p. p.) of Flip.
Flipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flip.
Flip (v. t.) （為作出決定而）擲（硬幣） To toss (an object) into the air so as make it turn over one or more times; to fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. -- W. Browne.
Flip (v. t.) 使翻轉 [（+over）] To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion; as, to flip a card over; to flip a pancake.
Flip (v. t.) To cause (a person) to turn against former colleagues, such as to become a witness for the state, in a criminal prosecution in which the person is a defendant. [cant]
Flip (v. t.) (Finance) To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit. [cant]
Flip (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Flipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Flipping.] 【美】【俚】（因激動，憤怒等）失去自我控制；變得狂熱 To become insane or irrational; -- often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out.
Flip (a.) 無禮的 Marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip].
Flip (n.) 突然的動作；（跳水或體操時的）空翻 An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip].
Flip (n.) Hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg.
Flip (n.) A sudden, quick movement; "with a flip of the wrist"; "the fish flipped over."
Flip (n.) The act of flipping a coin [syn: flip, toss].
Flip (n.) A dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water.
Flip (n.) (Sports) The act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: pass, toss, flip].
Flip (v.) (v. i.) 擲硬幣（以作決定）Lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" [syn: flip, toss].
Flip (v.) Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" [syn: throw, flip, switch].
Flip (v.) (v. i.) 瀏覽；很快地翻書 Look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff].
Flip (v.) Toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air [syn: flip, twitch].
Flip (v.) Cause to move with a flick; "he flicked his Bic" [syn: flip, flick].
Flip (v.) Throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: flip, toss, sky, pitch].
Flip (v.) Move with a flick or light motion.
Flip (v.) Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes" [syn: flip, flip over, turn over].
Flip (v.) React in an excited, delighted, or surprised way; "he flipped when he heard that he was accepted into Princeton University" [syn: flip, flip out].
Flip (v.) Go mad, go crazy; "He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off" [syn: flip, flip out].
Flip (v.) Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop].
FLIP, () An early assembly language on the G-15.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
FLIP, () ["FLIP User's Manual",
G. Kahn, TR 5, INRIA 1981].
FLIP, () Formal LIst Processor.
An early language for pattern-matching on Lisp structures, similar to CONVERT.
["FLIP, A Format List Processor", W. Teitelman, Memo MAC-M-263, MIT 1966].
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Flipe (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]
Flip-flap (n.) The repeated stroke of something long and loose. -- Johnson.
Flip-flap (adv.) With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. -- Ash.
Flip-flap (adv.) With repeated strokes and noise; "something going flip-flap in the night".
Flippancy (n.) The state or quality of being flippant.
This flippancy of language. -- Bp. Hurd.
Flippancy (n.) Inappropriate levity; "her mood changed and she was all lightness and joy" [syn: flippancy, light-mindedness].
Flippant (a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. -- Barrow.
Flippant (a.) Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogues." -- Thomson.
To put flippant scorn to the blush. -- I. Taylor.
A sort of flippant, vain discourse. -- Burke.
Flippant (n.) A flippant person. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Flippant (a.) Showing inappropriate levity [syn: flippant, light-minded].
Flippantly (adv.) In a flippant manner.
Flippantness (n.) State or quality of being flippant.
Flipper (n.) (Zool.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
Flipper (n.) (Naut.) The hand. [Slang]
Flippers (n.) flipper [By analogy with flipper [W13(1)], the limb of an aquatic animal used for locomotion].
A type of shoe with a paddle-like front extending well beyond the end of the toe, used an aid in swimming (especially
underwater).
Note: They are typically of rubber-like material, and are not worn when walking on land.
Syn: fin, fins.
Flipper (n.) A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper, fin].
Flipper (n.) The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming.
Flirted (imp. & p. p.) of Flirt.
Flirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flirt.
Flirt (v. t.) To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
Flirt (v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
Flirt (v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. [Obs.]
I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. -- Beau. & Fl.
Flirt (v. i.) To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
Flirt (v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Flirt (n.) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
Several little flirts and vibrations. -- Addison.
With many a flirt and flutter. -- E. A. Poe.
Flirt (n.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. -- Addison.
Flirt (a.) Pert; wanton. [Obs.]
Flirt (n.) A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men [syn: coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser].
Flirt (n.) Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying].
Flirt (v.) Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash].
Flirt (v.) Behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play, flirt].
Flirtation (n.) Playing at courtship; coquetry.
The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. -- Macaulay.
Flirtation (n.) Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying].
Flirt-gill (n.) A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] -- Shak.
You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. -- Beau. & Fl.
Flirtigig (n.) A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.]
Flirtingly (adv.) In a flirting manner.
Flisk (v. i.) To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." -- Gosson.
Flisk (n.) A caper; a spring; a whim. [Scot.]
Flitted (imp. & p. p.) of Flit.