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A beacon. [Obs.] Burrill.

den pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.

Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior.

sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash. Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unumbered struggles. Talfourd. The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. M. Arnold. A thought floashed through me, w…

Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf…

An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

roduced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.

A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.

anglers' flies. Kingsley. -- Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- Fly drill, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. Knight. -- Fly f…

n meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

A California scorpænoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

d with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.

Validity; efficacy. Burrill.

s an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.

A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

hed by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

hem to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill.