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Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.

A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.

ght; 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.

To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.

The state of being flush; abundance.

Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. Dryden.

hing deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits. Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. Goldsmith.

Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation. A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that c…

Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience. Atterbury.

A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Frequency; abundance. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety. The frisking satyrs on the summits danced. Addison.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.] "In thy presence is fullness of joy." Ps. xvi. 11.

To walk or to dance on a rope.

Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers.

A ropewalker or ropedancer.

A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.