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Felwort \Fel"wort`\, n. [Probably a corruption of fieldwort.] (Bot.) A European herb ({Swertia perennis}) of the Gentian family. | |
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Flare \Flare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flaring}.] [Cf. Norw. flara to blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E. flash, or flacker.] 1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares. 2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light. 3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. --Shak. 4. To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. --Prior. 5. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare. {To flare up}, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. | |
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Fleawort \Flea"wort`\, n. (Bot.) An herb used in medicine ({Plantago Psyllium}), named from the shape of its seeds. --Loudon. | |
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Fleer \Fleer\, [imp. & p. p. {Fleered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fleering}.] [OE. flerien; cf. Scot. fleyr, Norw. flira to titter, giggle, laugh at nothing, MHG. vlerre, vlarre, a wide wound.] 1. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. --Shak. 2. To grin with an air of civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. --Latimer. | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flirted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flirting}.] [Cf. AS. fleard trifle, folly, fleardian to trifle.] 1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief. 2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan. 3. To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. [Obs.] I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, v. i. 1. To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men. 2. To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, n. 1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer. Several little flirts and vibrations. --Addison. With many a flirt and flutter. --E. A. Poe. 2. [Cf. LG. flirtje, G. flirtchen. See {Flirt}, v. t.] One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl. Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. --Addison. | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, a. Pert; wanton. [Obs.] | |
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Flirtation \Flir*ta"tion\, n. 1. Playing at courtship; coquetry. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. --Macaulay. | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flirted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flirting}.] [Cf. AS. fleard trifle, folly, fleardian to trifle.] 1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief. 2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan. 3. To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. [Obs.] I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Flirt-gill \Flirt"-gill`\, n. A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] --Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Flirtigig \Flirt"i*gig\, n. A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.] | |
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Flirt \Flirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flirted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flirting}.] [Cf. AS. fleard trifle, folly, fleardian to trifle.] 1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief. 2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan. 3. To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. [Obs.] I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Flirtingly \Flirt"ing*ly\, adv. In a flirting manner. | |
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Floe \Floe\ (fl[omac]), n. [Cf. Dan. flag af iis, iisflage, Sw. flaga, flake, isflaga, isflake. See {Flag} a flat stone.] A low, flat mass of floating ice. {Floe rat} (Zo[94]l.), a seal ({Phoca f[d2]tida}). | |
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Floor \Floor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Floored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flooring}.] 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. 2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. Floored or crushed by him. --Coleridge. 3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.] I've floored my little-go work. --T. Hughes. | |
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Floorheads \Floor"heads`\, n. pl. (Naut.) The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel. | |
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Floret \Flo"ret\, n. [OF. florete, F. fleurette, dim. of OF. lor, F. fleur. See {Flower}, and cf. {Floweret}, 3d {Ferret}.] 1. (Bot.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. --Gray. 2. [F. fleuret.] A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. | |
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Floriated \Flo"ri*a`ted\, a. (Arch.) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars. | |
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Floriation \Flo`ri*a"tion\, n. 1. Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized. 2. Any floral ornament or decoration. --Rock. | |
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Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See {Flower}.] 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance. 3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. 4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. | |
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Bean \Bean\ (b[emac]n), n. [OE. bene, AS. be[a0]n; akin to D. boon, G. bohne, OHG. p[omac]na, Icel. baun, Dan. b[94]nne, Sw. b[94]na, and perh. to Russ. bob, L. faba.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera {Faba}, {Phaseolus}, and {Dolichos}; also, to the herbs. Note: The origin and classification of many kinds are still doubtful. Among true beans are: the black-eyed bean and China bean, included in {Dolichos Sinensis}; black Egyptian bean or hyacinth bean, {D. Lablab}; the common haricot beans, kidney beans, string beans, and pole beans, all included in {Phaseolus vulgaris}; the lower bush bean, {Ph. vulgaris}, variety {nanus}; Lima bean, {Ph. lunatus}; Spanish bean and scarlet runner, {Ph. maltiflorus}; Windsor bean, the common bean of England, {Faba vulgaris}. As an article of food beans are classed with vegetables. 2. The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. {Bean aphis} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse ({Aphis fab[91]}) which infests the bean plant. {Bean fly} (Zo[94]l.), a fly found on bean flowers. {Bean goose} (Zo[94]l.), a species of goose ({Anser segetum}). {Bean weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small weevil that in the larval state destroys beans. The American species in {Bruchus fab[91]}. {Florida bean} (Bot.), the seed of {Mucuna urens}, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments. {Ignatius bean}, or {St. Ignatius's bean} (Bot.), a species of {Strychnos}. {Navy bean}, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. {Pea bean}, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. {Sacred bean}. See under {Sacred}. {Screw bean}. See under {Screw}. {Sea bean}. (a) Same as {Florida bean}. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. {Tonquin bean}, or {Tonka bean}, the fragrant seed of {Dipteryx odorata}, a leguminous tree. {Vanilla bean}. See under {Vanilla}. | |
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Florida bean \Flor"i*da bean"\ (Bot.) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of {Mucuna urens}. See under {Bean}. (b) One of the very large seeds of the {Entada scandens}. | |
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Moss \Moss\, n. [OE. mos; akin to AS. me[a2]s, D. mos, G. moos, OHG. mos, mios, Icel. mosi, Dan. mos, Sw. mossa, Russ. mokh', L. muscus. Cf. {Muscoid}.] 1. (Bot.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water. Note: The term moss is also popularly applied to many other small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss, etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus {Lycopodium}. See {Club moss}, under {Club}, and {Lycopodium}. 2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border. Note: Moss is used with participles in the composition of words which need no special explanation; as, moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc. {Black moss}. See under {Black}, and {Tillandsia}. {Bog moss}. See {Sphagnum}. {Feather moss}, any moss branched in a feathery manner, esp. several species of the genus {Hypnum}. {Florida moss}, {Long moss}, [or] {Spanish moss}. See {Tillandsia}. {Iceland moss}, a lichen. See {Iceland Moss}. {Irish moss}, a seaweed. See {Carrageen}. {Moss agate} (Min.), a variety of agate, containing brown, black, or green mosslike or dendritic markings, due in part to oxide of manganese. Called also {Mocha stone}. {Moss animal} (Zo[94]l.), a bryozoan. {Moss berry} (Bot.), the small cranberry ({Vaccinium Oxycoccus}). {Moss campion} (Bot.), a kind of mosslike catchfly ({Silene acaulis}), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the Arctic circle. {Moss land}, land produced accumulation of aquatic plants, forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the water is grained off or retained in its pores. {Moss pink} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Phlox} ({P. subulata}), growing in patches on dry rocky hills in the Middle United States, and often cultivated for its handsome flowers. --Gray. {Moss rose} (Bot.), a variety of rose having a mosslike growth on the stalk and calyx. It is said to be derived from the Provence rose. {Moss rush} (Bot.), a rush of the genus {Juncus} ({J. squarrosus}). {Scale moss}. See {Hepatica}. | |
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d8Tillandsia \[d8]Til*land"si*a\, n. [NL. So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in Finland.] (Bot.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. {Tillandsia usneoides}, called {long moss}, {black moss}, {Spanish moss}, and {Florida moss}, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses. | |
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Rhodosperm \Rho"do*sperm\, n. [Gr. "ro`don the rose + spe`rma a seed.] (Bot.) Any seaweed with red spores. Note: As the name of a subclass, Rhodosperms, or {Rhodosperme[91]}, is synonymous with {Floride[91]} (which see.) | |
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Phycoerythrin \Phy`co*e*ryth"rin\, Phycoerythrine \Phy`co*e*ryth"rine\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed + E. erythrin, -ine.] A red coloring matter found in alg[91] of the subclass {Floride[91]}. | |
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Floridity \Flo*rid"i*ty\, n. The quality of being florid; floridness. --Floyer. | |
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Floridly \Flor"id*ly\, adv. In a florid manner. | |
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Floridness \Flor"id*ness\, n. The quality of being florid. --Boyle. | |
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Flour \Flour\, n. [F. fleur de farine the flower (i.e., the best) of meal, cf. Sp. flor de la harina superfine flour, Icel. fl[81]r flower, flour. See {Flower}.] The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. {Flour bolt}, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. {Flour box} a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box. {Flour} {dredge [or] dredger}, a flour box. {Flour dresser}, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. {Flour mill}, a mill for grinding and sifting flour. | |
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Flour \Flour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Floured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flouring}.] 1. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat. 2. To sprinkle with flour. | |
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Floured \Floured\, p. a. Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. --Raymond. | |
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Note: If we examine a common flower, such for instance as a geranium, we shall find that it consists of: First, an outer envelope or calyx, sometimes tubular, sometimes consisting of separate leaves called sepals; secondly, an inner envelope or corolla, which is generally more or less colored, and which, like the calyx, is sometimes tubular, sometimes composed of separate leaves called petals; thirdly, one or more stamens, consisting of a stalk or filament and a head or anther, in which the pollen is produced; and fourthly, a pistil, which is situated in the center of the flower, and consists generally of three principal parts; one or more compartments at the base, each containing one or more seeds; the stalk or style; and the stigma, which in many familiar instances forms a small head, at the top of the style or ovary, and to which the pollen must find its way in order to fertilize the flower. --Sir J. Lubbock. 3. The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth. The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain. --Hooker. The flower of the chivalry of all Spain. --Southey. A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms. --Tennyson. 4. Grain pulverized; meal; flour. [Obs.] The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue. --Arbuthnot. 5. pl. (Old. Chem.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur. 6. A figure of speech; an ornament of style. 7. pl. (Print.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. --W. Savage. 8. pl. Menstrual discharges. --Lev. xv. 24. {Animal flower} (Zo[94]l.) See under {Animal}. {Cut flowers}, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. {Flower bed}, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. {Flower beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus {Meligethes}, family {Nitidulid[91]}, some of which are injurious to crops. {Flower bird} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian bird of the genus {Anthornis}, allied to the honey eaters. {Flower bud}, an unopened flower. {Flower clock}, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. {Flower head} (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on their receptacle, as in the case of the daisy. {Flower pecker} (Zo[94]l.), one of a family ({Dic[91]id[91]}) of small Indian and Australian birds. They resemble humming birds in habits. {Flower piece}. (a) A table ornament made of cut flowers. (b) (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers. {Flower stalk} (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification. | |
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Flower-de-luce \Flow"er-de-luce"\, n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) 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. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are {Iris Germanica}, {I. Florentina}, {I. Persica}, {I. sambucina}, and the American {I. versicolor}, {I. prismatica}, etc. | |
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Flower \Flow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowering}.] [From the noun. Cf. {Flourish}.] 1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. 2. To come into the finest or fairest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. --Robynson (More's Utopia). When flowered my youthful spring. --Spenser. 3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. That beer did flower a little. --Bacon. 4. To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.] Observations which have flowered off. --Milton. | |
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Floweret \Flow"er*et\, n. A small flower; a floret. --Shak. | |
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Fluorated \Flu"or*a`ted\, a. (Chem.) Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride. [R.] | |
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Fluoride \Flu"or*ide\ (? [or] ?; 104), n. [Cf. F. fluoride.] (Chem.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. {Calcium fluoride} (Min.), fluorite, {CaF2}. See {Fluorite}. | |
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Fluoboric \Flu`o*bo"ric\, a. [Fluo- boric: cf. F. fluoborique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron. {Fluoridic acid} (Chem.), a double fluoride, consisting essentially of a solution of boron fluoride, in hydrofluoric acid. It has strong acid properties, and is the type of the borofluorides. Called also {borofluoric acid}. | |
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Fluorite \Flu"or*ite\, n. (Min.) Calcium fluoride, 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}. | |
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Fluoroid \Flu"or*oid\, n. [Fluor + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite. | |
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Flurry \Flur"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flurried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flurrying}.] To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. --H. Swinburne. | |
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Flurried \Flur"ried\, a. Agitated; excited. -- {Flur"ried*ly} adv. | |
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Flurried \Flur"ried\, a. Agitated; excited. -- {Flur"ried*ly} adv. | |
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Flurt \Flurt\, n. A flirt. [Obs.] --Quarles. | |
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3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. --B. Jonson. 4. A parasite. [Obs.] --Massinger. 5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.] 6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the [bd]union[b8] to the extreme end. 7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows. 8. (Naut.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. --Totten. 9. (Mech.) (a) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock. (b) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See {Fly wheel} (below). 10. (Knitting Machine) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. --Knight. 11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn. 12. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. --Knight. 13. (a) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press. (b) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work. 14. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place. 15. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater. 16. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons. 17. (Baseball) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly. {Black fly}, {Cheese fly}, {Dragon fly, etc.} See under {Black}, {Cheese}, etc. -- {Fly agaric} (Bot.), a mushroom ({Agaricus muscarius}), having a narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- {Fly block} (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- {Fly board} (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- {Fly book}, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies. --Kingsley.{Fly cap}, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- {Fly drill}, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. --Knight.{Fly fishing}, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies. --Walton.{Fly flap}, an implement for killing flies. -- {Fly governor}, a governor for regulating the speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes revolving in the air. -- {Fly honeysuckle} (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus ({Lonicera}), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as {L. ciliata} and {L. Xylosteum}. -- {Fly hook}, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- {Fly leaf}, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- {Fly maggot}, a maggot bred from the egg of a fly. --Ray. {Fly net}, a screen to exclude insects. {Fly nut} (Mach.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger nut. {Fly orchis} (Bot.), a plant ({Ophrys muscifera}), whose flowers resemble flies. {Fly paper}, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. {Fly powder}, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. {Fly press}, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. {Fly rail}, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged leaf of a table. {Fly rod}, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly. {Fly sheet}, a small loose advertising sheet; a handbill. {Fly snapper} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Phainopepla nitens}), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. {Fly wheel} (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See {Fly}, n., 9. {On the fly} (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foliar \Fo"li*ar\, a. (Bot.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. {Foliar gap} (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. {Foliar trace} (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolhardihood \Fool"har`di*hood\, n. The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolhardily \Fool"har`di*ly\, adv. In a foolhardy manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolhardiness \Fool"har`di*ness\, n. Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolhardise \Fool"har`dise\, n. [Fool, F. fol, fou + F. hardiesse boldness.] Foolhardiness. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolhardy \Fool"har`dy\, a. [OF. folhardi. See {Fool} idiot, and {Hardy}.] Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. --Howell. Syn: Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See {Rash}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fowlerite \Fow"ler*ite\, n. [From Dr. Samuel Fowler.] (Min.) A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full-hearted \Full"-heart`ed\, a. Full of courage or confidence. --Shak. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Flordell Hills, MO (city, FIPS 24706) Location: 38.71757 N, 90.26527 W Population (1990): 950 (394 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Florida, MO (village, FIPS 24760) Location: 39.49326 N, 91.79012 W Population (1990): 2 (9 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Florida, NY (village, FIPS 26319) Location: 41.33028 N, 74.35429 W Population (1990): 2497 (909 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 10921 Florida, OH (village, FIPS 27538) Location: 41.32300 N, 84.20058 W Population (1990): 304 (109 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Florida City, FL (city, FIPS 22975) Location: 25.44985 N, 80.48230 W Population (1990): 5806 (2045 housing units) Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33034 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Florida Ridge, FL (CDP, FIPS 23050) Location: 27.58004 N, 80.38692 W Population (1990): 12218 (6006 housing units) Area: 28.0 sq km (land), 4.6 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Florida zona, PR (urbana, FIPS 28824) Location: 18.36439 N, 66.56153 W Population (1990): 5748 (1918 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Flourtown, PA (CDP, FIPS 26376) Location: 40.10280 N, 75.20865 W Population (1990): 4754 (1764 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19031 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fowlerton, IN (town, FIPS 25198) Location: 40.40964 N, 85.57304 W Population (1990): 306 (130 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fowlerton, TX Zip code(s): 78021 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fullerton, CA (city, FIPS 28000) Location: 33.88480 N, 117.92805 W Population (1990): 114144 (42956 housing units) Area: 57.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92631, 92632, 92633, 92635 Fullerton, ND (city, FIPS 28780) Location: 46.16364 N, 98.42583 W Population (1990): 94 (41 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58441 Fullerton, NE (city, FIPS 17810) Location: 41.36411 N, 97.97254 W Population (1990): 1452 (649 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68638 Fullerton, PA (CDP, FIPS 28144) Location: 40.63197 N, 75.48587 W Population (1990): 13127 (6054 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
failure-directed testing on the knowledge of the types of {errors} made in the past that are likely for the system under test. (1996-05-16) |