Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 39

Flo (n.; pl. Flon) An arrow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Flon (n. pl.) See Flo. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Flong () Obs. imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Flong (n.) (Stereotyping) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.

Flood (n.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.

A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. -- Milton.

Flood (n.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. -- Shak.

Flood (n.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

Flood (n.) Menstrual disharge; menses. -- Harvey.

Flood anchor (Naut.), The anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

Flood fence, A fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.

Flood gate, A gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

Flood mark, The mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

Flood tide, The rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.

The Flood, The deluge in the days of Noah.

Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Flood.

Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flood.

Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

Flood (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Flood (n.) The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion].

Flood (n.) An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent].

Flood (n.) Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood].

Flood (n.) A large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring].

Flood (n.) The act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flood, flowage].

Flood (n.) The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"  -- Shakespeare [syn: flood tide, flood, rising tide] [ant: ebbtide].

Flood (v.) Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp].

Flood (v.) Cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes."

Flood (v.) Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut].

Flood (v.) Become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains."

Flood (v.) [common] To overwhelm a network channel with mechanically-generated traffic; especially used of IP, TCP/IP, UDP, or ICMP denial-of-service attacks.

Flood (v.) [common] To dump large amounts of text onto an IRC channel. This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation. Also used in a similar sense on Usenet.

Flood (v.) [common] [Usenet] To post an unusually large number or volume of files on a related topic.

Flood, () On a real-time network (whether at the level of TCP/IP, or at the level of, say, IRC), to send a huge amount of data to another user (or a group of users, in a channel) in an attempt to annoy him, lock his terminal, or to overflow his network buffer and thus lose his network connection.

The basic principles of flooding are that you should have better network bandwidth than the person you're trying to flood, and that what you do to flood them (e.g., generate ping requests) should be *less* resource-expensive for your machine to produce than for the victim's machine to deal with.  There is also the corrolary that you should avoid being caught.

Failure to follow these principles regularly produces hilarious results, e.g., an IRC user flooding himself off the network while his intended victim is unharmed, the attacker's flood attempt being detected, and him being banned from the network in semi-perpetuity.

See also pingflood, clonebot and botwar. [{Jargon File] (1997-04-07)

Flood, () An event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

Floodage (n.) Inundation. [R.] -- Carlyle.

Flooder (n.) One who floods anything.

Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

Flooding (n.) (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. -- Dunglison.

Flooding (n.) A technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them [syn: implosion therapy, flooding].

Floodplain (n.) 沖積平原 A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding [syn: floodplain, flood plain].

Compare: Fluke

Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

Fluke (n.) (Zool.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from     the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

       Fluke (n.)      An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

       Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke. [Cant, Eng.] -- A. Trollope.

Fluke (n.) (Zool.) 比目魚 The European flounder. See Flounder. [Written also fleuk, flook, and flowk.]

Fluke (n.) (Zool.) Any American flounder of the genus Paralichthys, especially Paralicthys dentatus, found in the Atlantic Ocean and in adjacent bays. -- RHUD

Fluke (n.) (Zool.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species ({Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.

Fluke (v. t. & i.) [imp. & p. p. Fluked; p. pr. & vb. n. Fluking.] To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards. [Slang]

Fluke (n.) A stroke of luck [syn: good luck, fluke, good fortune].

Fluke (n.) A barb on a harpoon or arrow.

Fluke (n.) Flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor [syn: fluke, flue].

Fluke (n.) Either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean

Fluke (n.) Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host [syn: fluke, trematode, trematode worm].

Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor. Flookan

Flookan (n.) Alt. of Flukan.

Compare: Flucan

Flucan (n.) (Mining) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

Flukan (n.) (Mining) See Flucan.

Flooky (a.) Fluky.

Floor (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.

Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story.

Floor (n.) (Legislative Assemblies) The part of the house assigned to the members.

Floor (n.) (Legislative Assemblies) The right to speak ; as, the gentleman from Iowa has the floor. [U.S.]

Note: Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house.

Floor (n.) (Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Floor (n.) (Mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

Floor (n.) (Mining) A horizontal, flat ore body. -- Raymond.

Floor cloth, A heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.

Floor cramp, An implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.

Floor light, A frame with glass panes in a floor.

Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line.

Floor plan. (b) (Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.

Floored (imp. & p. p.) of Floor.

Flooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floor.

Floor (v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.

Floored or crushed by him. -- Coleridge.

Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.]

I've floored my little-go work. -- T. Hughes.

Floor (n.) The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring].

Floor (n.) A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story].

Floor (n.) A lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" [syn: floor, base].

Floor (n.) The ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor."

Floor (n.) The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water.

Floor (n.) The lower inside surface of any hollow structure; "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave."

Floor (n.) The occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat."

Floor (n.) The parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor."

Floor (n.) The legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor."

Floor (n.) A large room in a exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader" [syn: floor, trading floor].

Floor (v.) Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback].

Floor (v.) Knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floor].

Floorage (n.) Floor space.

Floorer (n.) Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

Floorheads (n. pl.) (Naut.) The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.

Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. -- Addison.

Flooring (n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

Flooring (n.) The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring].

Flooring (n.) Building material used in laying floors.

Floorless (a.) Having no floor.

Floorwalker (n.) One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

Floorwalker (n.) An employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; "a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain" [syn: floorwalker, shopwalker].

Flopped (imp. & p. p.) of Flop.

Flopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flop.

Flop (v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

Flop (v. t.) To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] -- Fielding.

Flop (v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.

Flop (v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.

Flop (n.) Act of flopping. [Colloq.] -- W. H. Russell.

Flop (adv.) With a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud."

Flop (adv.) Exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right, flop].

Flop (n.) An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation, flop].

Flop (n.) Someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout].

Flop (n.) A complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn: flop, bust, fizzle].

Flop (n.) The act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" [syn: flop, collapse].

Flop (v.) Fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair."

Flop (v.) Fall suddenly and abruptly.

Flop (v.) Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: fall through, fall flat, founder, flop].

FLOP, () An early system on the IBM 701.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

(1994-11-14)

FLOP, () Erroneous singular of FLOPS.

(2005-06-17)

FLOP, (v.) Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party.

The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Floppy (n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. -- G. Eliot.

Floppy (a.) Hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears."

Floppy (n.) A small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price" [syn: diskette, floppy, floppy disk].

Floppy, ()

A Fortran coding convention checker.

A later version can generate HTML.

See also Flow.

ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12.

(1996-08-23)

Floppy disk

Crunchy

Diskette

Double density

Floppy

HD

high density

(Or "floppy", "diskette") A small, portable plastic disk coated in a magnetisable substance used for storing computer data, readable by a computer with a floppy disk drive.  The physical size of disks has shrunk from the early 8 inch, to 5 1/4 inch ("minifloppy") to 3 1/2 inch ("microfloppy") while the data capacity has risen.

These disks are known as "floppy" disks (or diskettes) because the disk is flexible and the read/write head is in physical contact with the surface of the disk in contrast to "{hard disks" (or winchesters) which are rigid and rely on a small fixed gap between the disk surface and the heads.  Floppies may be either single-sided or double-sided.

3.5 inch floppies are less floppy than the larger disks because they come in a stiff plastic "envelope" or case, hence the alternative names "stiffy" or "crunchy" sometimes used to distinguish them from the floppier kind.

The following formats are used on IBM PCs and elsewhere:

Capacity  Density  Width

360K double 5.25"

720K double 3.5"

1.2M high 5.25"

1.44M high 3.5"

Double denisty and high density are usually abbreviated DD and HD.  HD 3.5 inch disks have a second hole in the envelope and an overlapping "HD" logo.

(1996-08-23)

Flopwing (n.) (Zool.) The lapwing.

Flora (n.) (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of flowers and spring.

Flora (n.) (Bot.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

Flora (n.) All the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology].

Flora (n.) (Botany) A living organism lacking the power of locomotion [syn: plant, flora, plant life].

Flora, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois

Population (2000): 5086

Housing Units (2000): 2352

Land area (2000): 4.437148 sq. miles (11.492159 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000241 sq. miles (0.000623 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 4.437389 sq. miles (11.492782 sq. km)

FIPS code: 26454

Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17

Location: 38.669813 N, 88.484105 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 62839

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Flora, IL

Flora

Flora, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana

Population (2000): 2227

Housing Units (2000): 959

Land area (2000): 1.032246 sq. miles (2.673506 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.032246 sq. miles (2.673506 sq. km)

FIPS code:  23692

Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18

Location: 40.545819 N, 86.523367 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 46929

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Flora, IN

Flora

Flora, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi

Population (2000): 1546

Housing Units (2000): 606

Land area (2000): 3.403633 sq. miles (8.815368 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 3.403633 sq. miles (8.815368 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24940

Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28

Location: 32.543056 N, 90.311843 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 39071

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Flora, MS

Flora

Floral (a.) Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

Floral (a.) (Bot.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. --Martyn.

Floral envelope (Bot.), The calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

Floral (a.) Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers; "an unusual floral design" [syn: floral, flowered].

Floral (a.) Relating to or associated with flowers; "floral organs."

Floral (a.) Of or relating to the plant life in a particular region; "characteristic alpine floral elements."

Florally (adv.) In a floral manner.

Floramour (n.) The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] -- Prior.

Floran (n.) (Mining) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. -- Pryce.

Floreal (n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.

Floreal (n.) Eighth month of the Revolutionary calendar (April and May); the month of flowers.

Floren (n.) A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Florence (n.) An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. -- Camden.

Florence (n.) A kind of cloth. -- Johnson.

Florence flask. See under Flask.

Florence oil, Olive oil prepared in Florence.

Florence (n.) A city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries [syn: Firenze, Florence].

Florence (n.) A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center

Florence -- U.S. County in South Carolina

Population (2000): 125761

Housing Units (2000): 51836

Land area (2000): 799.841914 sq. miles (2071.580958 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 3.897639 sq. miles (10.094839 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 803.739553 sq. miles (2081.675797 sq. km)

Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45

Location: 34.065068 N, 79.740304 W

Headwords:

Florence

Florence, SC

Florence County

Florence County, SC

Florence -- U.S. County in Wisconsin

Population (2000): 5088

Housing Units (2000): 4239

Land area (2000): 488.033451 sq. miles (1264.000782 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 9.429944 sq. miles (24.423443 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 497.463395 sq. miles (1288.424225 sq. km)

Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55

Location: 45.841508 N, 88.364156 W

Headwords:

Florence

Florence, WI

Florence County

Florence County, WI

Florence, AZ -- U.S. town in Arizona

Population (2000): 17054

Housing Units (2000): 3216

Land area (2000): 8.294041 sq. miles (21.481466 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 8.294041 sq. miles (21.481466 sq. km)

FIPS code:  23760

Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04

Location: 33.042204 N, 111.384521 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 85232

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, AZ

Florence

Florence, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana

Population (2000): 901

Housing Units (2000): 336

Land area (2000): 4.723545 sq. miles (12.233925 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 4.723545 sq. miles (12.233925 sq. km)

FIPS code:  26950

Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30

Location: 46.637135 N, 114.081191 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 59833

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, MT

Florence

Florence-Roebling, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey

Population (2000): 8200

Housing Units (2000): 3439

Land area (2000): 2.212038 sq. miles (5.729153 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.423371 sq. miles (1.096526 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 2.635409 sq. miles (6.825679 sq. km)

FIPS code: 23895

Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34

Location: 40.116810 N, 74.794795 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 08518

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence-Roebling, NJ

Florence-Roebling

Florence, NJ

Florence

Florence-Graham, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California

Population (2000): 60197

Housing Units (2000): 14191

Land area (2000): 3.583223 sq. miles (9.280505 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 3.583223 sq. miles (9.280505 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24477

Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06

Location: 33.969364 N, 118.243881 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence-Graham, CA

Florence-Graham

Florence, CA

Florence

Florence, CO -- U.S. city in Colorado

Population (2000): 3653

Housing Units (2000): 1622

Land area (2000): 4.069281 sq. miles (10.539390 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.006545 sq. miles (0.016952 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 4.075826 sq. miles (10.556342 sq. km)

FIPS code: 27040

Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08

Location: 38.390323 N, 105.116559 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 81226

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, CO

Florence

Florence, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois

Population (2000): 71

Housing Units (2000): 45

Land area (2000): 0.202638 sq. miles (0.524830 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.202638 sq. miles (0.524830 sq. km)

FIPS code: 26480

Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17

Location: 39.628248 N, 90.610328 W

ZIP Codes (1990):   

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, IL

Florence

Florence, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon

Population (2000): 7263

Housing Units (2000): 4174

Land area (2000): 4.919666 sq. miles (12.741875 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.587286 sq. miles (1.521064 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 5.506952 sq. miles (14.262939 sq. km)

FIPS code: 26050

Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41

Location: 43.984298 N, 124.102962 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 97439

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, OR

Florence

Florence, SC -- U.S. city in South Carolina

Population (2000): 30248

Housing Units (2000): 13090

Land area (2000): 17.695517 sq. miles (45.831177 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.029000 sq. miles (0.075109 sq. km)

Total area (2000):17.724517 sq. miles (45.906286 sq. km)

FIPS code: 25810

Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45

Location: 34.184088 N, 79.774147 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 29501 29505

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, SC

Florence

Florence, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas

Population (2000): 671

Housing Units (2000): 301

Land area (2000): 0.769827 sq. miles (1.993843 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.001607 sq. miles (0.004162 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.771434 sq. miles (1.998005 sq. km)

FIPS code: 23600

Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20

Location: 38.242853 N, 96.929412 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 66851

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, KS

Florence

Florence, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota

Population (2000): 299

Housing Units (2000): 112

Land area (2000): 0.659664 sq. miles (1.708523 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.659664 sq. miles (1.708523 sq. km)

FIPS code: 21820

Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46

Location:  45.053952 N, 97.326023 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 57235

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, SD

Florence

Florence, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky

Population (2000): 23551

Housing Units (2000): 10322

Land area (2000): 9.872005 sq. miles (25.568375 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.026616 sq. miles (0.068935 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 9.898621 sq. miles (25.637310 sq. km)

FIPS code: 27982

Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21

Location: 38.993225 N, 84.642602 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 41042

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Florence, KY

Florence

Florence, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

Population (2000): 1054

Housing Units (2000): 410

Land area (2000): 0.810679 sq. miles (2.099649 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.810679 sq. miles (2.099649 sq. km)

FIPS code: 26136

Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48

Location: 30.842650 N, 97.792214 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 76527

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Headwords:

Florence, TX

Florence

Florence, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama

Population (2000): 36264

Housing Units (2000): 17707

Land area (2000): 24.930859 sq. miles (64.570625 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.095049 sq. miles (0.246177 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 25.025908 sq. miles (64.816802 sq. km)

FIPS code: 26896

Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01

Location: 34.820287 N, 87.662860 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 35630 35633

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Headwords:

Florence, AL

Florence

Florence, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota

Population (2000): 61

Housing Units (2000): 27

Land area (2000): 0.248511 sq. miles (0.643641 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.248511 sq. miles (0.643641 sq. km)

FIPS code: 21410

Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27

Location: 44.236832 N, 96.051779 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 56170

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Headwords:

Florence, MN

Florence

Florence, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi

Population (2000): 2396

Housing Units (2000): 1054

Land area (2000): 5.878570 sq. miles (15.225426 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 5.878570 sq. miles (15.225426 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24980

Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28

Location: 32.153782 N, 90.122031 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 39073

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Headwords:

Florence, MS

Florence

Florentine (a.) Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.

Florentine mosaic, A mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

Florentine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

Florentine (n.) A kind of silk. --Knight.

Florentine (n.) A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines. -- Beau. & Fl.

Florentine (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the city of Florence; "Florentine art."

Florentine (n.) A native or resident of Florence, Italy.

Florescence (n.) (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming. -- Martyn.

Florescence (n.) The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence].

Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Floret (n.) (Bot.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. -- Gray.

Floret (n.) [F. fleuret.]  A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.

Floret (n.) A diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) [syn: floret, floweret].

Floriage (n.) Bloom; blossom. [Obs.] -- J. Scott.

Floriated (a.) (Arch.) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.

Floricomous (a.) Having the head adorned with flowers. [R.]

Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

Floricultural (a.) Of or relating to or involving floriculture.

Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.

Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants [syn: flower gardening, floriculture].

Floriculturist (n.) One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

Florid (a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]

Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. -- Jer. Taylor.

Florid (a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

Florid (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

Florid (a.) (Mus.)  Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Florid (a.) Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant].

Florid (a.) Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine].

Florida bean () (Bot.) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

Florida bean () (Bot.) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.

Florida bean (n.) The annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing [syn: cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana].

Florideae (n. pl.) (Bot.) A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

Compare: Rhodosperm

Rhodosperm (n.) (Bot.) Any seaweed with red spores.

Note: As the name of a subclass, Rhodosperms, or Rhodospermeae, is synonymous with Florideae (which see.)

Floridity (n.) The quality of being florid; floridness. -- Floyer.

Floridity (n.) Extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance" [: flamboyance, floridness, floridity, showiness].

Floridly (adv.) In a florid manner.

Floridly (adv.) In a florid manner; "floridly figurative prose."

Floridness (n.) The quality of being florid. --Boyle.

Floridness (n.) Extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance" [syn: flamboyance, floridness, floridity, showiness].

Floriferous (a.) Producing flowers. -- Blount.

Florification (n.) The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

Floriform (a.) Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

Floriken (n.) (Zool.) An Indian bustard ({Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, florikin, florican.].

Florilege (n.) The act of gathering flowers.

Florimer (n.) (Bot.) See Floramour. [Obs.]

Florin (n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

Compare: Guilder

Guilder (n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

Florin (n.) The basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin].

Florin (n.) Formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin, Dutch florin].

Florin. () The name of a foreign coin. In all computations of customs, the florin of the southern states of Germany, shall be estimated at forty cents; the florin of the Austrian empire, and of the city of Augsburg, at forty-eight and one-half cents. Act March 22, 1846. The florin of the United Netherlands is computed at the rate of forty cents. Act of March 2, 1799, Sec. 61. Vide Foreign Coins.

Florin, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California

Population (2000): 27653

Housing Units (2000): 9606

Land area (2000): 5.647917 sq. miles (14.628036 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 5.647917 sq. miles (14.628036 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24498

Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06

Location: 38.490157 N, 121.410862 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Florin, CA

Florin

Florist (n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

Florist (n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

Florist (n.) Someone who grows and deals in flowers; "the florist made up an attractive bouquet."

Florist (n.) A shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold [syn: florist, florist shop, flower store].

Floroon (n.) A border worked with flowers. --Wright.

Florulent (a.) Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] -- Blount.

Floscular (a.) (Bot.) Flosculous.

Floscularian (n.) (Zool.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

Floscule (n.) (Bot.) A floret.

Flosculous (a.) (Bot.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Flos-ferri (n.) (Min.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

Flosh (n.) (Metallurgy) A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps. -- Knight.

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