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motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

ower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

To sail; to float. [Obs.] And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. Spenser.

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

Feathered; -- said of arrows.

eat masses from the island. Macaulay. Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor o…

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

m with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

open; a bomb flies apart. To fly about (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. -- To fly around, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] -- To fly at, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. -- To fly in the face of, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; t…

the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

rbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

Blended; passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Ps. xiv. 1.

The lower edge of a sail.

That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

rd which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; We sailed from Peru for China and Japan. Bacon.