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Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

iate from the true direction. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller.

A match used in firing guns or blasting. Field mouse, Flying mouse, etc. See under Field, Flying, etc. -- Mouse bird (Zoöl.), a coly. -- Mouse deer (Zoöl.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil. -- Mouse galago (Zoöl.), a very small West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bush…

ellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole. Muscæ volitantes (. Etym: [L., flying flies.] (Med.) Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

A flying report; rumor; as, it is a mere on dit.

An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.

To surpass in flying; to fly beyond or faster than. Shak. Winged with fear outflies the wind. Waller.

To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train.

Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.

They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

ing as the mists arise. Pope. She was a phantom of delight. Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. -- Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but disappearing upon the administratio…

A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

t bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. Shak. The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon. And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.