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The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.

To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

acility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

ngs, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.

born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

The language spoken in France.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

ellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. J. Peile.