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.
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.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
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].
Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.
Flookan (n.) Alt. of Flukan.
Flukan (n.) 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.) The part of the house assigned to the members.
Floor (n.) The right to speak.
Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
Floor (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
Floor (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
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.
Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
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.
Floorheads (n. pl.) The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
Flooring (n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
Floorless (a.) Having no floor.
Floorwalker (n.) One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
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.
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.
Flop (n.) Act of flopping.
Floppy (n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
Flopwing (n.) The lapwing.
Flora (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
Flora (n.) 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.
Floral (a.) Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
Floral (a.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
Florally (adv.) In a floral manner.
Floramour (n.) The plant love-lies-bleeding.
Floran (n.) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
Floreal (n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.
Floren (n.) A cerain gold coin;
a
Florentine (a.) Belonging or
relating to
Florentine (n.) A native or
inhabitant of
Florentine (n.) A kind of silk.
Florentine (n.) A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.
Florescence (n.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Floret (n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
Floriage (n.) Bloom; blossom.
Floriated (a.) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Floricomous (a.) Having the head adorned with flowers.
Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculturist (n.) One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Florid (a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
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.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Florida bean () The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
Florida bean () One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
Florideae (n. pl.) 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.
Floridity (n.) The quality of being florid; floridness.
Floridly (adv.) In a florid manner.
Floridness (n.) The quality of being florid.
Floriferous (a.) Producing flowers.
Florification (n.) The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
Floriform (a.) Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.
Floriken (n.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.
Florilege (n.) The act of gathering flowers.
Florimer (n.) See Floramour.
Florin (n.) A silver coin of
Florist (n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Florist (n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Floroon (n.) A border worked with flowers.
Florulent (a.) Flowery; blossoming.
Floscular (a.) Flosculous.
Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
Floscule (n.) A floret.
Flosculous (a.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
Flos-ferri (n.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.