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A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

Any fish of the family Pleuronectidæ; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

Windy; generating wind. [Obs.] Bacon.

A breath; a puff of wind. Clarke.

Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.

Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and…

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

To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser.

without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

Having turns, windings, or flexures.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak.

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden.

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak.

to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.