The lapwing.
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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.
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.
The state of being flowery.
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
Having no flowers.
State of being without flowers.
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
An annual weedy herb (Hibiscus trionum) with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, native to the Old World tropics and naturalized as a weed in North America.
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Dressed with garlands of flowers.
a. n. from Flow, v. i. t.
In a flowing manner.
Flowing tendency or quality; fluency.
See 1st Fluke.
Flushed, inflated.
A variant of Flute.
A fluoride.
A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.
Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.
Tending to produce waves.
Sounding like waves.
The capacity or ability to fluctuate.
Moving like a wave; wavering showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.
moving irregularly in an oscillatory manner, especially up and down; as, fluctuating prices.
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore.
A brass wind instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore, and having three valves.
Fluency.
The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
A current of water; a stream.
In a fluent manner.
The quality of being fluent.
A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
Downy; fluffy.
To make a mistake in the performance of; -- used mostly of lines in a drama; as, he fluffed the last line of the act.
Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
Same as Fugleman.
A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, a/riform, or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.
To render fluid.
The state of being fluid; fluidity.
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