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or funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon.

ubtile; thin; tenous. The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser. Bacon.

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.

The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. [Obs.] Bacon.

e to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. Bacon.

Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. [Obs.] Bacon.

A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

isible; an instant; a very brief period. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. Bacon.

s as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

Flatulence. [Obs.] Bacon.

Windy; generating wind. [Obs.] Bacon.

ing. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon.

Wavering; not steady; flickering. Bacon.

A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.

The act of flowing; flux; flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

.] Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps flourished into large works. Bacon.