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The state of being flaky.

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

reat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.

The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. Thackeray.

a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies. -- Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. -- F…

Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.

The front or fore part of anything. Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton. So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action. Shak.

good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.

owing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

In a frisky manner.

State or quality of being frisky.

past to the time present. Bacon. The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.

k with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness. The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. Shak.

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

In a smoky manner.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.