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A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

A small Europen flounder (Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak.

ency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.

Same as White sage, under White. -- Winter fever (Med.), pneumonia. [Colloq.] -- Winter flounder. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Flounder. -- Winter gull (Zoöl.), the common European gull; -- called also winter mew. [Prov. Eng.] -- Winter itch. (Med.) See Prarie itch, under Prairie. -- Winter lodge, or Winter lodgment.…

To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them. Smart.