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rst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

early red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, flashes.

In a flashy manner; with empty show.

The quality of being flashy.

A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. Knight. Flashing point (Chem.), that degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing po…

zzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

A sudden flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.…

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]