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between rolls. Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss. -- Flatting furnace. Same as Flattening oven, under Flatten. -- Flatting mill. (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by stee…

allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser.

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy ma…

argument, excuse, objection. Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Pope. All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.] J. Dyer.

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

s, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present. Floss hole.

tant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. -- Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.…

Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair. Dickens.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing. "The fur-wrought fly." Gay.

To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.[Obs.] He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. Fuller.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.