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The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustibl…

a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.] To play some pleasant fit. Spenser.

A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

leet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose of making some communication not hostile. -- Flag share, the flag officer's share of prize money. -- Flag station (Railroad), a station at which trains do no…

A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

ests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

A player on the flute; a flutist.

verso ( Etym: [It., transverse flute], the German flute, held laterally, instead of being played, like the old flûte a bec, with a mouth piece at the end.

To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.

Playing at courtship; coquerty. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. Macaulay.

nd sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

the flask. Knight. -- To follow the hounds, to hunt with dogs. -- To follow suit (Card Playing), to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set. -- To follow up, to pursue indefatigably.

sonous. -- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.