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A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white le…

A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser.

petulant. "Flippant epilogous." Thomson. To put flippant scorn to the blush. I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. Burke.

dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

rain pulverized; meal; flour. [Obs.] The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue. Arbuthnot.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

ation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.

The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. He frequented the court of Augustus. Dryden.

The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells…

A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak.

a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh.