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A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth (Zoöl.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.…

Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.

A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.

Furnished with lobes or flaps.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

ine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.] Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. Shak.

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. [Local, U.S.]

The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

hed from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. Swift.

A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.

rod by a strap. See Illust. of Gib and key, under Gib. -- Strap hinge, a hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall. -- Strap rail (Railroads), a flat rail formerly used.

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

bstruction. Tricuspid valve (Anat.), the valve, consisting of three triangular membranous flaps, at the opening of the right auricle into the right ventricle in the heart of most mammals; -- sometimes called the tricuspid valves, each flap being regarded as a valve.

One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.

In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.