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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white le…

To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.] He rudely flashed the waves about. Spenser. Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

nting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. Coleridge.

Having large flews. Shak.

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

nks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

plied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

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

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

A large Dutch coasting vessel. Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats. Purchas.

ish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.