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.

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.

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.

Flosculous.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

A floret.

Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

A small stream of water.

A flowering; florification.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.

The state of floating.

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

The act, process, or state of floating.

A wave.

Wavy; flowing.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.

Skimmed.

To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

The act of floundering.

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.

A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

One who flourishes.

In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.

A mock; an insult.

One who flouts; a mocker.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana pulcherrima, or C/salpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.

a bed in which flowers are growing.

resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.

A plant which flowers or blossoms.

A small flower; a floret.

Abounding with flowers.