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ly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b). -- Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper. -- Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., produc…

A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.

Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.

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

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

swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.

tal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope.

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. --…

Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

eir wickedness. Nelson. We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. Tennyson.

s which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

Flushed, inflated.

upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue…