A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
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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.
See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.
See Fluid dram, under Fluid.
Flucan.
See Flucan.
To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards.
Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
Formed like, or having, a fluke.
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.
A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
imp. p. p. of Fling.
A failure or backing out a total failure in a recitation.
to be dismissed (from a school or course of study) due to failure to perform up to the minimum standard.
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
The place or region of flunkies.
The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
See Borofluoride.
A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.
See Hydrofluoric.
A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
A fluid state.
A white crystalline hydrocarbon C15H10, of a complex structure, found as one ingredient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
A luminescence emitted by certain substances due to the absorption of radiation at one wavelength, and the almost instantaneous re-emission of radiation at another, usually longer wavelength. The re-radiation stops almost as soon as the incident radiation is halted, thus distinguishing this phenomenon from phosphorescence, in which re-radiation of light may continue for some time after the incident radiation is halted.
Having the property of fluorescence.
A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresce/n, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.
The addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay).
A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.
the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay).
to subject to fluoridation, as of water.
A non-metallic, gaseous element of atomic number 9, strongly acid or negative, and associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels, but may be contained in lead vessels. If set free it immediately attacks a containing glass vessel, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.00.
Calcium fluoride (CaF2), a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.
Any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens.
A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
Examination of an object, as the human body, by exposing it to the X rays and observing the shadow cast upon a fluorescent screen; cryptoscopy.
Pertaining to fluor.
A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine.
Agitated; excited.
To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
A flirt.
So as to be level or even.
Same as Flashboard.
A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /
In a flushing manner.
The state of being flush; abundance.
Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
To fluster.
The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
A performer on the flute; a flautist.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
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