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Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

humb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.

See Philopena.

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron. Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.

The repeated stroke of something long and loose. Johnson.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.

rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

In a flippant manner.

State or quality of being flippant.

A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped`, a.

Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method. [Written also iatroleptic.]

To clasp; to inclose. Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips. Shak.

A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit.