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Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

he genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. Marston.

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

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.

To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

ke a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson.

To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

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

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. Floored or crushed by him. Coleridge.

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.]

in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McElrath.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3.

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