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To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute. When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar. Spenser. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

Discord; a clashing of interests. "Endless jarrings and immortal hate." Dryden.

To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle. Shak. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. Bacon.

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange.

Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.

Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

A thong of leather; a whip lash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A whiplash. [Obs.]

To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash. This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion. Shak.

A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.

See Fatherlasher.

A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.

Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame. "Meteoric politician." Craik. Meteoric iron, Meteoric stone. (Min.) See Meteorite. -- Meteoric paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from me…

aper, as, .- (A), -... (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), ... (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.

A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

To sound with a low, rumbling noise. Thick lightings flash, the muttering thunder rolls. Pope.

To meet; to clash. [Obs.] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.