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With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position. [Obs.] Spenser.

A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

A young bird just fledged.

The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.

A person devoted to fleshly things. [Obs.] Spenser.

; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

One who flinches or fails.

In a flinching manner.

A bat; a flittermouse.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. Dryden. He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight t…

One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

One who flings; one who jeers.

A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.

Hard-hearted. Shak.

The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.

An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.