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Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. Craig.

the ground in its front. -- Flank en potence (Mil.), any part of the right or left wing formed at a projecting angle with the line. -- Flank files, the first men on the right, and the last on the left, of a company, battalion, etc. -- Flank march, a march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order…

A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.

A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.…

the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

s, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.

ysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.

The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.

Formed like, or having, a fluke.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

tance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresceïn, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.

A surface formed of floating threads.

Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.

A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids,or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

hich the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 [Obs.]

Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.