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Flisk

A caper; a spring; a whim.

Flit

Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

Flitch

To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips; as, to flitch logs; to flitch bacon.

Flite

To scold; to quarrel.

Flitter

A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.

Flittermouse

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

Flittern

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

Flitting

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

Flix

The flux; dysentery.

Float

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.

Floating

Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

floatplane

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

Floaty

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

Flobert

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

Floccillation

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

Floccose

Spotted with small tufts like wool.

Flocculate

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

Flocculation

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

Floccule

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

Flocculent

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

Flocculus

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

Floccus

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

Flock

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.

Flocky

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Floe

A low, flat mass of floating ice.

Flog

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

Flong

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

Flood

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

flooded

covered or overflowing with water.

floodhead

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

Flooding

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

floodlit

Illuminated by means of floodlights.

Flook

A fluke of an anchor.

Floor

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

floorcover

a covering for the floor of an automobile.

Floorer

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.

Floorheads

The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.

Flooring

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

Floorwalker

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

Flop

Act of flopping.

flophouse

a cheap and usually seedy lodging house or hotel.

Floppy

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

Flora

The goddess of flowers and spring.

Floral

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

Floran

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

Floreal

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

Floren

A cerain gold coin; a Florence.

Florence

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

Florentine

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

Floret

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

Floriated

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

Floriation

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

Florid

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

Florideae

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.

Floridity

The quality of being florid; floridness.

Florification

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

Floriform

Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

Floriken

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

Florin

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.

Florist

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

Floroon

A border worked with flowers.

Flos-ferri

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

Floscularian

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

Flosculous

Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Flosh

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

Floss

A small stream of water.

Flossy

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

Flota

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.

Flotant

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

Flotation

The act, process, or state of floating.

Flotilla

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

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