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.

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.

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.

Illuminated by means of floodlights.

A fluke of an anchor.

Fluky.

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Floor space.

a board in the floor.

a covering for the floor of an automobile.

provided with a floor.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.

The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.

Having no floor.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.

Act of flopping.

a cheap and usually seedy lodging house or hotel.

Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.

The lapwing.

The goddess of flowers and spring.

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

In a floral manner.

The plant love-lies-bleeding.

Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vend/miare.

A cerain gold coin; a Florence.

An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.

A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

Bloom; blossom.

Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.

Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.

Having the head adorned with flowers.

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

A subclass of alg/ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodosperme/ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

a resident of Florida.

The quality of being florid; floridness.

In a florid manner.

The quality of being florid.

Producing flowers.

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.

The act of gathering flowers.

See Floramour.

A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

A border worked with flowers.

Flowery; blossoming.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.