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An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

ins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.

A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. -- Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assemb…

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple. Dickens.

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

lied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

Flattery. [Obs.]

Mild, flattering speech.

Fair-spoken; flattering.

To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

Directly; flatly; point blank. De Quincey.