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from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

A large Dutch coasting vessel. Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats. Purchas.

ish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

hich contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.] Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.

A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.