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Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.

Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.

Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

sh of the family Pleuronectidæ; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

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

; 115), adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. Shak.

In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptori;y; positively, plainly. "He flatly refused his aid." Sir P. Sidney. He that does the works of religion slowly, flatly, and without appetite. Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being flat.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.

One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.

That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

With flattery.

The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.