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oduced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. [Slang] Mayhew.

terial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. Macaulay.

A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -…

To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

The hand. [Slang]

Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. -- n.

To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift.

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv.

A flange. [R.]. (Her.)

Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Firm-footed; determined. [Slang, U.S.]

The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8…

Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.

A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]

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

The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.

The hand. [Slang]

To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.