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To whip; to scourge; to flog.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. "Lottle flakes of scurf." Addison. Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

t danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it. -- Florence flask. Etym: [From Florence in Italy.] (a) Same as Betty, n., 3. (b) A glass flask, round or pear-shaped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions. -- Pocket flask, a kind of pocket…

A long, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

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.

usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

esembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.

Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. "Fleecy flocks." Prior.

in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

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

To float; to swim. [Obs.] "Whether I sink or flete." Chaucer.

The iris. See Flower-de-luce.

A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower- shaped part in a necklace.

A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. Swift. Swift flights of angels ministrant. Milton. Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts.…

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