Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.

Obs. pl. of Flea.

To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.

A word or look of derision or mockery.

One who fleers.

In a fleering manner.

To sail; to float.

To take the cream from; to skim.

Swift of foot.

Fleeted or skimmed milk.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

In a fleeting manner; swiftly.

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.

In a fleet manner; rapidly.

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

imp. of Fly.

To banish; to drive out; to expel.

One who, or that which, banishes or expels.

A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.

Same as Flence.

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.

Corpulent; fat; having flesh.

A butcher.

The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.

Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors and dancers.

Destitute of flesh; lean.

The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.

A person devoted to fleshly things.

In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.

The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.

One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.

A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked.

A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.

Skimmed.

To feather, as an arrow.

One who fletches or feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

To float; to swim.

Producing tears.

The iris. See Flower-de-luce.

A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower-shaped part in a necklace.

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.

imp. of Fly.

Having large flews.

The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.

Flax.

A system of scheduling working hours in places of employment, which allows employees to arrive at and leave work at times of their own choice, providing that they work the required number of hours and usually requiring that they be present during certain hours, called core time.

Having power to change the mind.

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.

Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

Having bent or curved ribs.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.

Flexuous.

Having turns, windings, or flexures.

Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

A sycophant.

An imp.

A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Filibuster.

A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant; a flirt; also, the sound made by such a blow.

The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

In a flickering manner.

See Flittermouse.

To become fledged; to fledge.

One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.

The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.

A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.

In a flighty manner.

The state or quality of being flighty.

Fleeting; swift; transient.

A freak; a trick; a lie.

In a flimsy manner.

The state or quality of being flimsy.

Thin or transfer paper.

The act of flinching.

One who flinches or fails.

In a flinching manner.

A bat; a flittermouse.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

A small genus of Australian timber trees.

A tall Australian timber tree (Flindersia australis) yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.

A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.

One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.

One who flings; one who jeers.

A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

Hard-hearted.

The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

To become insane or irrational; -- often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out.

With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.

The state or quality of being flippant.

A flippant person.

In a flippant manner.

State or quality of being flippant.

A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

A type of shoe with a paddle-like front extending well beyond the end of the toe, used an aid in swimming (especially underwater).

Pert; wanton.

A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt.

Playing at courtship; coquetry.

A wanton, pert girl.

In a flirting manner.

A caper; a spring; a whim.

Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.

To scold; to quarrel.

A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.