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A diarrhea or flux. [Obs.] Holland.

latching.

A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

g, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

les the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

aw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]

ood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

e family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]

A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

A vessel of flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.