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.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.

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.

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.

In a flitting manner.

Unstable; fluttering.

The flux; dysentery.

An arrow.

To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

That may be floated.

Same as Flotage.

See Flotation.

One who floats or swims.

Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

In a floating manner.

a plane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water.

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

Spotted with small tufts like wool.

Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves its mechanical condition.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.

The state of being flocculent.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

A lamb.

In flocks; in crowds.

In a flock; in a body.

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

A low, flat mass of floating ice.

To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

One who flogs.

from Flog, v. t.

See Flo.

A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

Inundation.

covered or overflowing with water.

One who floods anything.

a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood; as, we were lucky to be safe when the floodheads hit.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.