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A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. Knight.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

the cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. -- Flag root, the root of the sweet flag. -- Sweet flag. See Calamus, n., 2.…

ak. To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett.

omentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

per which has not been folded. -- Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. -- Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. Raymond. -- Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket;…

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.

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

talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

sembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. The flux nature of all things here. Barrow.

e part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture. [Cant] Bartlett.

Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] Bartlett. Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

To supply with food. [Obs.] Baret.

Without food; barren. Sandys.

The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead. Simmonds.

le or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.