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To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

ship flare. To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute. [Colloq.]

He flashes into one gross crime or other. Shak. To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett.

The European red-backed shrile (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.

To flay. [Obs.] He will be fleaced first And horse collars made of's skin. J. Fletcher.

A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc. Fleet captain, the senior aid of the admiral of a fleet, when a captain. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8…

a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied 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.

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.] I've floored my little-go work. T. Hughes.

hat knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion. Dunglison.

To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. [Colloq. U.S.]

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.