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That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

With flattery.

The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

Somewhat flat. Woodward.

The state or quality of being flatulent.

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.

Flatulence. [Obs.] Bacon.

Windy; generating wind. [Obs.] Bacon.

A breath; a puff of wind. Clarke.

Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

ulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Level with the ground; flat. [Obs.] Bacon.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

To flatter excessively.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.