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See Lute, a cement.

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on bal…

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. -- Pol*lut"ing*ly, adv.

pplied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a…

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. -- n. (Med.)

a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water. Arbuthnot.

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted. Arbuthnot.

The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

ecially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

One who makes grooves or flutings.

A mode of plaiting or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

See Highfaluting.

ial of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

The act or method of luting vessels.

r tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.