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Floor space.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison.

Having no floor.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

s a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.

Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.

The lapwing.

The goddess of flowers and spring.

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

In a floral manner.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. Pryce.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of cloth. Johnson. Florence flask. See under Flask. -- Florence oil, olive oil prepared in Florence.

Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.