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A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs." Latimer.

A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. J. P. Peters.

A low, flat mass of floating ice. Floe rat (Zoöl.), a seal (Phoca foetida).

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. --…

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species.

Flushed, inflated.

One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

ngland, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.

usk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

irely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

rice, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. Ure. -- French window. See under Window.

One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.

birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidæ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.