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ts by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8…

t; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

frivolous; -- of people. serious Syn. -- flighty. [WordNet 1.5]

delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

. Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. Trench.

An assembly of the people; esp. (Sax. Law),

as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

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.

To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.

Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.] To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Ld. Berners.

ers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people. Hooker.

r public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.

nding individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.

Collectively, the people of France.

A native or one of the people of France.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.