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n contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.

To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]

ast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

.] Shak. More abundant incomes of light and strength from God. Bp. Rust. At mine income I louted low. Drant.

To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves. B. Jonson.

To flout with contempt.

A lout; a clown. [Obs.] The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon. Hayward.

A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt. [Obs.] Fortherby.

To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology. "Flout 'em and scout 'em." Shak.

our hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. Shak.

blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural. The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak.

A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. [Colloq.] Slouth hat, a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.

[F.] A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velouté sauce.

ear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.