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A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

(a) The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same (b) C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written (c) The…

A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; Hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba. C. Bronté.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

erful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay.

To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson.

A flatterer; a wheedler.

A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.

er concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed,…

Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. [Obs.]

Depressed; flattened. [Obs.] Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson

ed as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. -- Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak.

A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron. -- Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively. -- Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty. -- Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before th…

s a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. [Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

ic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

p; to become twisted out of shape. Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. Moxon.