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Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

acility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

ngs, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.

a hawk. [Obs.] Bacon. To fly a kite (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang]

The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson. To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] G. Eliot.

A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

ot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence. [Slang]

Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.

The language spoken in France.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.