Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.

Liable to be blown about.

Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

The state of being flaccid.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

To flutter, as a bird.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A small glass bottle with a stopper; as, a flacon for perfume.

A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.

To lay with flags of flat stones.

an extreme bellicose nationalist.

fanatically patriotic; same as chauvinistic.

One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Flagelliform.

resembling a flagellum or flagella.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.

The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Importunity; urgent demand.

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.

One who makes signals with a flag.

A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.

A pole used to display a flag.

A person who sits for an extended period of time on top of a flagpole or other high column; -- a publicity stunt performed for various reasons.

Flagrancy.

A burning; great heat; inflammation.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

In a flagrant manner.

To burn.

A conflagration.

The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

A staff{4} on which a flag is hoisted.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.

Acting like a flail.

p. p. of Flay.

Smell; odor.

To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

The state of being flaky.

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

To deceive with a falsehood.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of C/salpinia.

To kindle; to inflame; to excite.

a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers.

Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.

a bright red perchlike fish (Apogon maculatus) found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters.

Destitute of flame.

A small flame.

a strongly rhythmic and vigorous style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian gypsies, characterized by clapping and stamping of feet.

not susceptible to burning; noncombustible; fireproof; -- of artifacts. Opposite of combustible.

a weapon that squirts ignited liquid or gelatinous fuel for several yards.

Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.

Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.

In a flaming manner.

Any bird of the genus Ph/nicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

Pertaining to a flamen.

The quality of being flammable; inflammability.

Inflammable.

The act of setting in a flame or blaze.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.

Producing flame.

Vomiting flames, as a volcano.

Of a reddish color.

Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.

A flange. A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

A thrust in the side.

Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimlessness; idleness; as, intellectual fl/nerie.

One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.

A miner's two-pointed pick.

To be bent into a flange.

Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.

To border; to touch.

To defend by lateral fortifications.

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and Northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers.

a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle; a pancake; a flapjack.

Covered or wrapped in flannel.

a cotton imitation of flannel.

Made or consisting of flannel.

To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

Having broad, loose, dependent ears.

Having broad, hanging lips.

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.

A flat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pancake.

One who, or that which, flaps.

Leaf of lard.

A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

having a gradual increase in width; as, flared nostrils.

That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.

In a flaring manner.

A pool.

the lowest temperature at which the vapors given off by a volatile liquid exposed to air will burst into flame when approached by a flame. Also called flashing point.

preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; -- used of foods.

a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene; also, the scene thus introduced.

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

a lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph.

One who, or that which, flashes.

a lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph.

In a flashy manner; with empty show.

The quality of being flashy.

The creation of an artificial flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

a portable battery-powered electric lamp, small enough to be held in one hand; -- it is most commonly cylindrical, but other forms are also made. It is called in Britain a torch

Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.

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

A long, shallow basket, with two handles.

To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.