The Anglish Moot
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Flail n O.E. of West Germanic origin, based on on Latin flagellum 'whip' probably influenced in Middle English by O.Fr. Instrument to thresh corn by hand. 2. a military weapon resembling a flail.
Flail vb To strike with a flail; to thresh corn with a flail
Flail-chest n A life-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks under extreme stress and becomes detached from the chest wall.
Flailing n A swinging vigorous motion of the arms.
Flake n Wattled hurdle, temporary gate, a stage or frame for drying fish, a snow flake
Flane n An arrow.
Flaught n OE: a lock of hair, or wool; flash of lightning, tongue or flame, sudden burst of wind. 2. a spreading out, as wings in flight, outspread wings; 2. flock of birds.
Flaught adv With outspread wings. 2. with great eagerness
Flaught adj Spreading out of, as a wing for flight. 2. agitated movement, commotion.
Flaughten n A flake of snow.
Flaughter vb To make a fluttering motion. 2. to flutter.
Flaw n Sudden burst of wind, fall of rain or snow with gusty winds,

a short spell of rough weather. 2. a sudden burst of passion, as in flaw & fury

Flax n A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds. 2. the fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles. 3. the flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.
Flax phr "Flax Out" - to knock out, beat in a fight. 2. to become fatigued or exhausted.
Flaxen adj Of, pertaining to, or made of flax. 2. of a light golden colour; blondish. 3. material made from flax. 4. linen; a linen cloth.
Flaxlike adj Resembling flax.
Flaxseed n The mucilaginous seed borne by common flax. 2. Radiola Milligrania. 3. linseed used for soothing and softening.
Flaxweed n Linaria vulgaria, toad-flax.
Flaxwench n A female spinner.
Flaxwort n Any plant of the flax family (linaceae)
Flaxy adj Like flax, fair, flaxen
Flay vb To strip off the skin by flogging; to skin, to peel. 2. to pillage, rob. 3. to attack by scathing criticism.
Flay phr "Flay Alive" - punish, penalize, abuse, criticize.
Flaybreech n Flogger, flayer, flagellator
Flayer n One who, or that which flogs, whips or (fig.) criticises with acerbity. 2. one who fleeces.
Flay-flint n A skin flint; a miser.
Flaying n The removal of the skin (skinning) of a dead animal when preparing it to be used as food for animals of for its skin or fur. 2. a method of torture and execution by skinning or flaying alive.
Flea n A small, wingless parasite of the order Siphonaptera, known for its bloodsucking and leaping, parasitic on mammals. 2. a thing or person or little significance.
Flea vb To rid of, or remove fleas from.
Flea phr "A Flea in One's Ear" - an unwelcome hint or unexpected reply or rebuff; a caution, warning.
Flea phr "It's Only a Flea Bite" - insignificant amount, quantity, a trifling.
Flea phr "Send Someone Away With a Flea In Their Ear" - dismiss someone with a rebuff. 2. to give a person frank but unwelcome facts.
Fleabane n Any of the species that repel insects, especially fleas. 2. the catch-fly, the spikenard, yellow-heads etc.
Flea-bite n The bite of a flea, or it's mark caused by the bite. 2. something that causes only a minor or trifling wound, irritation. 3. a minor inconvenience. 3. a minute amount.
Fleabitten adj Flea-ridden, full of places bitten by fleas. 2. blotched, dotted, specked.
Fleabitten'ness n The condition of being flea-ridden.
Flea-borne adj Of bacteria and diseases etc. transmitted by flea.
Fleam n A surgical instrument for letting blood or lancing gums. 2. an instrument for bleeding horses.
Fleam vb To heat with a fleam. 2. to let blood by fleaming. 3. to wash.
Fleaming n The act of letting blood for surgical reason.
Fleaming n A runaway, escapee, fugitive.
Flea pit n A movie theater cinema.
Flea-ridden adj Infested with fleas. 2. mangy, filthly.
Fleawort n Given to various plants Inula Conyza and some species of Cinerria (C. Integrifolia) and Erigon (Erigon Viscosum)
Flede vb To flow, fleet, stream.
Fledge n A young bird, animal, person etc. 2. an inexperienced person, tyro, novice.
Fledge vb Of a young bird to acquire feathers large enough for flight. 2. to become fully plumed. 3. to bring up a young bird until its feathers are fully grown. 4. to provide a helmet with feathers or plumage. 5. to deck or adorn with feathers. 6. to cover with feathers or down. 7. to fit an arrow with feathers.
Fledge adj Of young birds (rarely of the wing) -fit to fly. 2. having wings fully developed or fledged. 3. formed for flight. 4. all in a flutter, high-spirited.
Fledgeless adj Unfledged. 2. without feathers or covering; plumeless.
Fledgeness n The state or quality of being fit to fly. 2. high-spiritness.
Fledgeling n A young bird, just fledged. 2. a tyro, an inexperienced person, novice.
Fledgy adj Of wings: furnished or covered with feathers, feathered, downy. 2. of young bees: ready to fly.
Fledwite n (May be ferdwite)
Flee n Flight, escape, a fleeing.
Flee vb To run away, as from danger, harm, or enemies. 2. to move away quickly, take flight. 3. to move swiftly, leave abruptly, to withdraw hastily. 4. to run away from, evade, avoid, or try to avoid, shun. 5. disappear, vanish.
Flee phr "Flee for It" - to run away from danger; take flight, try to escape, safety my flight.
Fleece n Sheep collectively.
Fleece vb To strip of the fleece. 2. to clip off the wool from. 3. to pluck or shear the wool from a sheep (also fig.) 4. to strip or swindle completely one of their money or property. 5. to exact money from. 6. to rob heartlessly; to victimize. 7. to overspread as with a fleece or with a fleece.
Fleece phr "Fleece Somebody" - to cheat a person out of some asset.
Fleeced adj Furnished with a fleece. 2. defraud, swindle, scam. 3. take by deception.
Fleeceless adj Having no fleece or woolly covering. 2. devoid of a fleece.
Fleech vb To beguille, cajole, wheedle, flatter, fawn, beseech, entreat
Fleecher n Sycophant, fawner
Fleecily adv In a fleecy manner.
Fleeciness n The quality or state of being fleecy.
Fleecing n The act of stripping of the fleece. 2. the clipping off the wool from. 3. the plucking or shearing the wool from a sheep (also fig.) 4. the stripping or swindling completely of one from their money or property. 5. the exacting of money from. 6. the robbing heartlessly; victimization. 7. the overspreading of a fleece or with a fleece.
Fleecy adj Covered with a fleece or wool, woolly. 2. consisting of, resembling or derived from fleece. 3. having a fleece-like nap.
Fleecy clouds n Clouds resembling a fleece or wool.
Fleecy Star n Aries.
Fleeing n The running away, as from danger, harm, or enemies. 2. movement away quickly, the taking of flight. 3. swift abrupt depaarture, a hastily withdraw. 4. evading, avoidance, or the trying to avoid, shunning. 5. disappearance, the vanishing.
Fleet n OE: fleot : river, stream, often fast flowing. 2. an inlet creek, estuary, sewer; now chiefly in place names: "Fleet Street"
Fleet n A company of ships; ships collectively or sailing in company. 3. a sea-force, a naval force or armament; number of vessels carrying arms; a number of ships armed and manned for war. 4. a number of persons, birds or other objects moving or employed in company. 5. a number of vehicles or aircrafts forming a definite group or unit.
Fleet n Any place where water flows. 2. an arm of the sea, a creek, inlet, run of water. 3. a drain, sewer.
Fleet n "The Fleet" - a navy.
Fleet n "The Fleet" - a stream flowing into The Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street now a covered sewer.
Fleet vb To stay, flow or float on the surface, as opposed to sinking; to be buoyed up. 2. to rest upon the surface of a liquid. 3. to flow or glide away. 4. hyperbolically: "to swim" in blood, tears. 5. to be bathed in happiness. 6. of a vessel: to be or get afloat; to travel by vessels. 7. to drift or be carried by the current or tide on the water's surface. 8. of mists, clouds, spirit, odor: to float in air drift, waft. 9. to swim, said of fish; occasionally of other animals and men. 10. of persons: to be afloat in a vessel; to journey or travel by water. 11. to move unsteadily as a floating object. 12. of material or immaterial things: to shift away, fade or vanish, to fluctuate, change position (imperceptibly or stealthy, waver. 13. of a multitude of persons: to stream, flow out. 14. to overflow, abound, fill abundantly. 15. to glide away like a stream. 16. of the soul: to pass from the body (said of a dying person). 17. of time: while away, pass time, kill time. 18. to move swiftly. 19. to skim milk, cream from the surface. 20. to remove that which floats on the surface. 21. to skim fresh water of the sea, as done by some at the mouths or rivers.
Fleet adj Having little or no depth; shallow, near the surface. 2. superficially fruitful.
Fleet phr "Fleet in Being" - a fleet that avoids decisive action, but, because of its strength and location, causes or necessitates counter-concentration, and so reduces the number of opposing units available for operations elsewhere 2. a force or capability that can not be ignored by observers and whose very existence shapes what observers do.
Fleet phr "Fleet of Foot" - able to move rapidly.
Fleet phr "Go Through the Fleet" - to be flogged.
Fleet phr "To Plow Fleet" - having little depth of soil; light superficially fruitful
Fleet adj Of milk: skimmed.
Fleet Ditch n The prison that once stood beside Fleet Stream.
Fleeten adj The colour of skimmed milk. 2. said contemptuously of the face: pasty faced.
Fleeter n A shifty person.
Fleet-footed adj Swift in running; swift of foot.
Fleeting n The action of skimming milk, liquid from the surface. 2. confinement in Fleeting Prison. 3. swimming. 4. the floating of a fish. 5. something that moves constantly shifting, unstable, wandering (of a person and their attributes). 5. ephemerality.
Fleeting adj Shifting, inconstant, passing quickly away. 2. unstable, fickle, inconstant, vacillating, wandering. 3. existing for a brief period; not permanent or enduring, fading, ephemeral.
Fleeting adv Swiftly, quickly, briefly, transitory, unenduringly, ephemerally.
Fleeting phr "Life is Fleeting" - life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep.
Fleetingly adv Passing swiftly and quickly; ephemeral, vanishing, quickly. transient.
Fleeting-milk n Skimmed milk.
Fleetingness n The state or quality of being unstable, fickle, unenduring or ephemeral.
Fleetings n Milk curds; a mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey.
Fleet landing n The place along a shoreline or pier used by sailors to go ashore. 2. a place where sailors might board a shuttle boat because land and a vessel. 3. a place where sailors meet after coming ashore.
Fleetly adv In a fleeting manner.
Fleetness n Swiftness, transitoriness, ephemerality.
Fleetside n A pick-up truck having flat sides or outside quarter panels.
Fleetwide n Throughout a fleet.
Fleetwide adv Throughout a fleet.
Fleg vb To frighten, scare. 2. to flee, run away.
Fleme n Flight, exile. 2. a fugitive, an exile, a runaway.
Fleme vb To cause to flee, to banish, put to flight, drive away, chase away; hence, to banish exile.
Fleme phr "To Fleme Away" - to reject.
Flemensfirth n The act of harboring a banished person.
Flemer n One who puts others to flight.
Fleming n Late OE: a native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.
Flemish adj The Dutch language in Belgium, referring both to the standard Dutch used there, as well as any dialect
Flerd n Deceit, fraud, mockery.
Flesh n A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids. the general concept of flesh, we include the muscles, fat, glands &c., which clothe the bones and are covered with the skin; sometimes restricted to the muscles. 2. animal food, in distinction from vegetable. 3. the body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish. 4. the body, as distinguished from the soul. 5. animal nature; animals of all kinds. 6. men and women in general; mankind. 7. human nature. 8. carnality; corporeal appetites. 9. a carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature. 10. the corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature. 11. the present life; the state of existence in this world. 12. legal righteousness, and ceremonial services. 13. kindred; stock; family. 14. in botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, & etc., which is fit to be eaten.
Flesh vb To initiate; a sportsman's use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh. 2. to harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing. 3. to initiate in or inure to bloodshed or warfare; men fleshed in cruelty. 4. to plunge a weapon into flesh for the first time. 5. to glut; to satiate. 6. to remove the adhering flesh from a skin or hide.
Flesh phr "After the Flesh" - body appearance and likeness.
Flesh phr "A Heart of Flesh" - a heart capable of having feelings for others, as opposed to a "heart of stone:".
Flesh phr "Arm of Flesh" - human strength or aid.
Flesh phr "Be in The Flesh" - fat, corpulent.
Flesh phr "Days of the Flesh" - the days of one's earthly life.
Flesh phr "Fair of Flesh and Fell" - (the beauty) of the body in form and complexion.
Flesh phr "Flesh and Blood" - the human body; a human being; the frailties, fears and passions that all mankind has and shares as physical beings.
Flesh phr "Flesh and Blood Needs Flesh and Blood" - sentient beings need other sentient beings for companionship, touch, love and affection.
Flesh phr "Flesh Out" - expand, extend, make or become substantial.
Flesh phr "Go the Way Of All Flesh" - to die, perish.
Flesh phr "In the Flesh" - in a bodily form; in a corporeal nature or state. 2. in person.
Flesh phr "Make One's Flesh Creep" - cause a feeling of abhorrence. 2. to frighten a person with something horrific.
Flesh phr "More Than Flesh and Blood Can Stand" - beyond human endurance.
Flesh phr "Neither Flesh, Fish Or Good Red Herring" - neither one thing nor the other.
Flesh phr "Neither Flesh nor Fish" - to be neither one or the other; "to be twi." Also 'neither, flesh, fish, fowl nor good red herring'
Flesh phr "Of All Flesh" - all beings or folk on Earth; humanity.
Flesh phr "Of One Flesh" - to be closely united, as in marriage.
Flesh phr "One's Own Flesh and Blood" - one family, kin or folk; offspring. 2. of a husband or wife to express the closeness of relationships created by marriage.
Flesh phr "Put Flesh and Bone on Something" - give detail and clarification to a story. 2. to supply details of a proposal previously revealed only in outline.
Flesh phr "Put On Flesh" - grow fatter.
Flesh phr "See Someone in the Flesh" - see someone in person.
Flesh phr "Sins of the Flesh" - the supposed wrongdoings or sins of man, esp. those of a carnal nature; unchastity.
Flesh phr "The Way of All Flesh" - experience common to all humankind.
Flesh phr "Thorn in One's Flesh" - persistent source of irritation. 2. to be a person whose persistent presence and righteous views annoy.
Flesh and Blood n Man's physical form composed of the body or in living form. 2. human nature with its emotions and infirmities. 3. having actual human existence. 4. near kindred. 5. the plant " Potentilla Tormentilla".
Flesh and Fell n The substance of the body (flesh, bone and skin). 2. cattle intended for slaughter.
Flesh-bird n A bird that lives on carrion, such as the raven and crow.
Flesh-broker n A pimp, procurer, monger of flesh. 2. slaver, slave-trader.
Flesh-broth n Soup containing meat and vegetables.
Flesh-eater n A carnivore; a cannibal.
Fleshed adj Clothed or furnished with flesh. 2. innured to bloodshed, hardened. 3. eager from battle. 4. animated by hatred. 5. initiated.
Fleshen adj Composed of flesh
Flesher n Dealer in flesh or meat; a butcher.
Flesh-fallen n Lean, skinny, emaciated.
Flesh-father n An earthly father, as opposed to the Heavenly Father.
Flesh-fly n Scarcophaga carnaria. - the blowfly
Fleshful adj Plump, fleshy, fullness of flesh, well-covered.
Flesh-hewer n A butcher.
Fleshhood n Condition or state of being or becoming flesh. 2. incarnation.
Flesh-hook n A hook for hanging meat in a hop or for lifting it out of a pot.
Flesh-house n An abattoir, slaughter-house, butcher's shop, shambles.
Fleshiness n The quality of being fleshy; fullness of flesh. 2. a fleshy growth.
Fleshing n The action of scraping off the adhering flesh from a skin. 2. that which is scraped off (the adhering flesh) from the skin (fleshings). 3. flesh colored tights worn on the stage (fleshings)
Flesher n A butcher; also a flesh-hewer
Flesh-hood n Incarnation, being in the flesh
Flesh-house n A butcher's shop
Fleshing-wise adj "Seems that it's never so godly, virtuous and good in the the sight of fleshing-wise men"
Flesh-kind n Meat.
Flesh-kinsman n Family and relatives; kinsmen of the same flesh.
Fleshless adj Destitute of flesh. 2. without material substance; phantom-like. 3. without superfluous flesh, emaciated, lean. 4. without meat; fleshless.
Fleshlessness n State or conditions of being fleshless.
Fleshlihood n Fleshliness, carnality, gratification of the flesh.
Fleshlike adj Resembling flesh in texture or appearance.
Flesh-lines n In Africa the practice where the skin is pricked and cut, sometimes hundreds of times, to form patterns of scarification, flesh-lines) raised of the skin like braille.
Fleshliness n In OE: incarnate condition. 2. fleshly quality or state; carnality, carnal passion or appetites. 3. fullness of flesh, fleshiness.
Fleshling n A fleshly-minded person.
Fleshly adj Of or pertaining to flesh. 2. of a hound, dog etc., -fond or liking of flesh. 3. sensual, worldly, carnally.
Fleshly adv Carnally, materially as opposed to spiritually. 2. corporeally. sensually, worldly.
Fleshly-minded adj Indulgingin sensual pleasures.
Flesh-meat n Flesh (as opposed to fish and vegetables) - as an article of food consisting of flesh.
Fleshmonger n A butcher. 2. a pimp, panderer. 3. fornicator. 4. monger of flesh, as one who enslaves others, especially women enslaved for sexual exploitation.
Fleshpot n A red-light district; a seedy side of a city.. 2. a pot in which flesh is boiled.
Fleshquake n A shaking, trembling, highly agitated person.
Flesh-rind n Skin, epidermis.
Flesh-seamer n Surgeon
Flesh-side n A side of a hide that adjoined the flesh.
Flesh-spades n Fingernails.
Flesh-string n A muscle.
Fleshworm n A maggot; a worm that feeds on flesh. 2. carnally-minded person
Fleshwound n A wound that is not very deep; superficial.
Flesh-writer n The person for whom a ghostwriter writes a book.
Fleshy adj Well-covered, plumpish, furnished with flesh, consisting of flesh (and bone). 2. corporeal, bodily, resembling flesh in its properties or qqualities. 3. implying softness and tender of flesh, meat etc. 4. a closely-fitting, flesh-covered garment of a skin colour, worn on stage to represent natural skin. 5. of a plant, leaf, pulpy, somewhat firm, not fibrous.
Fleshy-mindness n Worldly, carnally minded, in the ways of the world.
Flet n The floor, or the flat) ground under one's feet. 2. inner part of a house. 3. a place, spot, field.
Flet phr "Flet and Fire" - fire and house room (once found in wills)
Fley vb To put to flight; frighten away. 2. to frighten, terrify, scare. 3. to be afraid or frightened.
Fleyedness n State or condition of being frightened, terrified, scared.
Fleying n The action of something that frightens. 2. a hobgoblin.
Fleysome adj Frightful, dreadful, scared.
Flichter vb To flutter, move quivering through the air. 2. tremble, quiver, throb.
Flichtered adj Throw into a flutter; a volatile, flighty, frightened.
Flichtering n Fluttering, quivering, trembling.
Flick n A light quick blow, jerk, or touch: a flick of the wrist; gave my horse a flick with the reins; the sound accompanying this motion. 2. light splash, dash, or daub.
Flick vb To touch or hit with a light quick blow or fillip: flicked him with his hand. 2. to cause to move with a sudden movement or jerk; as to flick the light switch. 3. to propel or remove with a sudden movement, fillip, or light blow: flick an insect of one's jacket. 4. to move in sudden or jerky manner: a horse's mane flicking in the wind. 5. to look through the parts of something by making quick movements with the fingers.
Flick phr "Flicker Out" - (of a naked light, flame) gradually go out in small flicker of flames.
Flick phr "Flick Out" - cause to emerge, come out.
Flick phr "Flick Through" - scan through, (a book, document, etc)turning the pages with a quick movement of the thumb, thumb through, peruse.
Flicker vb Of a bird: to flutter, hover. 2. to flap the wings; to move by flapping the wings.
Flickered adj Illuminate with a flickering light.
Flickerless adj Without a fluttering, flickering, flapping.
Flickermouse n A bat, vespertian.
Flight n The action of fleeing or running away danger. 2. a hasty departure.the act, manner, or power of flying or moving through space. 3. the distance covered or that can be covered at one time by an airplane, bird, projectile, etc. 4. a group of things flying through the air together: a flight of birds, arrows, etc. 5. a military flight formation. 5. the smallest tactical unit in an air force; specif., in the U.S. Air Force, a subdivision of a squadron. 6. an airplane scheduled to fly a certain route at a certain time. 7. a trip by airplane or spacecraft. 8. an outburst or soaring above the ordinary: a flight of fancy. 9. a set of stairs, as between landings or floors.
Flight n An arrow. 2. the husk of oats, outer covering of a berry.
Flight n Flaught: a violent storm (of snow). 2. a piece of turf; turf cut into pieces.
Flight vb To put to flight; to frighten away. 2. to migrate, flit. 3. to fly in flights. 4. to put a feather on an arrow.
Flight adj Swift, fleet.
Flight phr "In the First (top) Flight" - in the van, taking a leading; of the best quality. 2. among the leaders.
Flight phr "Put Somebody to Flight" - to cause to flee, escape. 2. make somebody run away.
Flight phr "Take Flight" - run away; flee.
Flight by Night n See "Fly-by-night"
Flight arrow n A light, slender arrow for shooting at long distances.
Flightcraft n The ability, skill, or art of flying. 2. an aircraft, especially one in motion or flight.
Flighted adj Having a certain flight or speed. 2. provided with feathers, feathered. 3. of steps arranged in flights.
Flighter n A wing.
Flighter vb (see Flichter, flaughter) - to flutter, move quivering through the air. 2. tremble, quiver, throb.
Flight feather n A long stiff, asymmetrically shaped, by symmetric paired quilled feathers on the wings or tail of a bird.
Flightful adj Fleeting, transitory, fugitively, producing flight.
Flight-given adj Inclined to flight.
Flightily adj Given to capricious, flightily, or unstable behavior. 2. characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior. 3. easily excited, skittish; frivolous.
Flightiness n The quality or state of being flighty. 2. capriciousness or whimsical.
Flighting n An advertising term for a timing patterns in the commercials are scheduled to run during intervals that separated by periods in which no advertising messages appear for an advertising item.
Flightless adj Unable to fly, usually used in reference to birds such as the penguin, ostrich, emu.
Flight-line n The area of an airfield, (the flight-line) specifically the parking area and the maintenance hangars, where aircrafts are unloaded, offloaded and serviced.
Flight path n The planned course of an aircraft or spacecraft.
Flight-ripe adj Fit or ready for flight.
Flightseeing n Sightseeing from an aircraft.
Flight-shot n The distance to which a flight arrow is shot. 2. a shot taken at wild fowl in flight: 'a flight-shot'.
Flightworthy adj Of an aircraft capable of being flown safely.
Flighty adj Quick, swift, fleet. 2. given to flights of imagination, humour, caprice. 3. guided by whim or fancy rather than by judgement and purpose. 4. fickle, frivolous, inconstant. 5. of a horse: skittish. 6. of weak and disordered intellect. 7. crazy, light-headed, scatter-brained.
Flint n A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. 2. a piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark. 3. small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
Flint vb To provide with flint or flints. 2. to decorate or cover with flint.
Flint phr "Get or Wring Water from a Flint" -used to express extreme difficulty in doing something.
Flint phr "To Skin a Flint" - an expression of avarice, greed, greediness.
Flint phr "True as Flint"- firmess and staunch in allegiance.
Flint-folk n People, who in prehistoric times used flint implements.
Flintful adj Flinty.
Flint-headed adj Having arrow-heads made from flint.
Flint-hearted adj Hard-hearted, callous, cruel, unfeeling.
Flintiness n Having the characteristics or quality of flint.
Flintiness n Composed of, containing, or resembling flint, esp. in its hardness. 2. Sternness, yieldless.
Flinting n The making of tools from flint. 2. a very hard stone.
Flintless adj Without flint or flints.
Flintlike adj Flinty, stony, hard.
Flintlock n An old-style gun, fired by spark from flint.
Flintstone n flint. 2. a penurious or stingy person.
Flintware n Another word for stone-ware.
Flintwood n The "Eucalyptus Pilularis" of New South Wales.
Flintwort n Name for aconite (Nudis cautibus)
Flinty adj Consisting of flint, from flint. 2. full of flinty stone. 3. having the characteristics of flint. 4. hard, impenetrable, rugged. 5. of a person or his heart: obdurate, hard-hearted, unfeeling. 6. of immaterial things - hard, harsh, tough.
Flinty-hearted adj Hard-hearted, callous, obdurate, unfeeling. 2. having a hard or flint-like core.
Flintiness n Quality or state of being flinty, hard.
Flird n OE: fleard. 2. anything that is thin and insufficient, as thin as a piece of cake, worn out clothes etc. 2. anything viewed as gaudy.
Flirds n Worn out clothes, vain finery.
Flitch n The side of an animal, now only of a hog. 2. hog meat salted and cured, as a side of bacon. 3. a square piece of blubber from a whale. 4. a slice cut lengthways from a tree's; usually, having the rough or natural surface as one of it's sides.
Flitch vb To cut a log in flitch: lengthways from a trunk of a tree, with the rough or natural surface as one of it's sides.
Flite n Flyte, contention, strife, dispute, abuse, abusive speech or language. 2. a contest, a struggle, a scolding match.
Flite vb To contend, strive, busy oneself. 2. to contend in words, chide, wrangle. 3. to debate or dispute, although without or violent, abusive language. 4. to complain, remonstrate.
Fliter n A dispute, argument, debate. 2. one who scold, a scold.
Fliting n The action of the verb: contenting, wrangling, rebuking, reproaching. 2. Scottish poetical invective of the c16th in which poets, usually two, assailed each other with tirades or diatribe of abusive verse.
Fliting-free adj unrestricted in administering rebuke.
Flitwite n A fine for brawling.
Flo n An arrow.
Float n The act or an instance of floating. 2. a buoyant motion through the air. 3. the tide's flux or flood (lit. & fig.) 3. any of the various styles of floating executed by swimmers 4. a wave or billow. 5. agitation, disquiet of mind. 6. a river's overflow, a flood (lit. and fig.). 7. a side stream, backwater. 8. a floating object. 9. a weed mass floating on the water's surface; plankton. 10. a raft, a flat-bottomed boat. 11. a floating appliance for supporting someone or something in water; a life preserver. 12. a cork used to support a fishing-net. 13. anything that stays, or causes something else to stay, on the surface of a liquid or suspended near the surface. 14. a buoyant device on an aircraft to enable it to land or remain on water. 15. a low, flat, decorated vehicle for carrying exhibits, etc. in a parade. 16. a flat tool for smoothing or spreading cement, plaster, etc.17. a thread that is brought to the surface of a cloth in weaving, esp. to form a pattern. 18. the act of allowing a currency to float on the market. 19. banking the total value of checks or drafts in transit and not yet collected
Float vb To be supported by a liquid, such as water. 2. to be capable of floating. 3. to drift gently through the air. 4. to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating. 5. to move in a fluid manner. 6. to drift aimlessly. 6. to automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change. 7. to allow a price to be determined by the markets as opposed to by rule. 8. to propose for consideration. 9. to extend a short-term loan to.
Float phr "At Float" - at high tide.
Float phr "Upon the Float" - flowing in a stream; also fig. (in an unsettled condition).
Float board n One of the paddles of water or a pddle wheel.
Float-bridge n A pontoon.
Floater n A dead body found floating in water, river, stream, sea etc. 2. a mine floating adrift on the sea. 3. a government stock certicate, a bond accepted as security. 3. a swinging voter. 4. a vagrant, itinerant, transient, flutterer. 5. a person who frequently changes jobs, a temporary employee.
Floatiness n The (lit. & fig.)quality or state of being buoyant. 2. light and billowy in appearance.
Floating n The action of floating on water. 2. material that floats in liquid.
Floating adj That which floats. 2. not fixed in a position, opinion, etc free to move or drift.
Floating anchor n A sea anchor.
Floating-feeling n A combined feeling of light-heading and dizziness.
Floating-heart n An aquatic herb (genus Nymphoides), with floating heart-shaped leaves.
Floating holiday n A public holiday that does not fall on the same calendar date each year, such as the US Thanksgiving, which always falls on the fourth Thursday of November. 2. a paid day off from work, given as a substitute for a public holiday and typically taken on a day chosen by the employee.
Floating island n A mass of floating decayed vegetation floating at a river mouth, and supporting growth of new plants.
Floating kidney n An abnormal condition, usually congenital, in which the kidneys are movable or unstable in position; also called' wandering kidney.
Floating light n A lightship moored on sunken rocks as a signal of danger; a life-buoy with lanterns attached.
Floatingly adv In a floating way or manner.
Floating ribs n The lower ribs (11th and 12th in man) not connected to the breast bone.
Floatsome adj Dialect form of flotsam.
Floating-stick n A device used in team building exercises, consisting of four light rods which can be connected to accomodate four to twenty participants. two lines of participants face each other with their index finger outstretched . the trainer then places the floating stick on top of the teams fingers. the challenge is to lower the rod to the ground without ever losing contact with it.
Floatstone n A bricklayer's rubbing stone for smoothing the surface of bricks used in curved work. 2. a stone so light as to float on water; a floating stone. 3. a kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
Floatwort n Seaweed, seawrack.
Floaty adj Watery; drawing little water. 2. capable of floating, hence a ship.
Flock n Church congregation guided by a pastor. 2. a group of birds. 3.(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. 4. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. 4. an orderly crowd; troop, flock.. 5. a group of sheep or goats; flock, fold.
Flock vb To move as a crowd or in a group. 2. come together as in a cluster or flock; cluster, flock, clump. 2. 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.

2. to gather in companies or crowds.

Flock phr "Flock Into" - enter in numbers or a flock.
Flock phr "Flock Together" - of people with a common interest coming or gathering together
Flock phr "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" - persons of like interests gather in the same place.
Flock phr "Like a Flock of Sheep" - in an easily-led group, with no will of its own.
Flocking n The action of those who flock to a certain place or person. 2. congregating, gathering in crowds or thronging.
Flocking adj Assembling in flocks or crowds.
Flock-meal n By companies of troops, of persons, rarely by groups, or heaps of things.
Flock-wise adj In flocks, or in flock or group.
Flood n Cover with liquid, usually water 2. a large flow. 3. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing. 4. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. 5. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) 6. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 7. an overwhelming number or amount. 8. The Flood (the biblical flood).
Flood vb To become filled to overflowing, (flooded during the heavy rains.) 2. to fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. 3. to supply with an excess of.
After phr "After Me the Flood" - used to imply total indifference to what might happen after one has died ("apres moi le deluge")
Flood phr "Before the Flood" - a very long time ago; antediluvian.
Flood phr "Flood and Field" - sea and land.
Flood phr "Flood Into" - arrive in great quantities.
Flood phr "Flood Out" - of floodwaters forcing people out of their homes.
Flood phr "Flood With" - pour upon or into.
Flooder n A person who floods message boards with unwanted or repetitive comments.
Flood-fill n A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on coloring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point.
Floodgate n A gate for regulating the flow of water, as a raceway. 2. any free vent for an outpouring, as of a wrath or tears.
Floodgate phr "Open the Floodgates" - remove all restrictions. 2. take action which will have massive consequences.
Flooding n The action of a flood; an inundation. 2. the covering of land by rain or water. 3. an overflowing of water. 4. a fullness (lit and fig.) 5. a haemorhage, esp a uterine one.
Flooding n A method of psychology of treating a sufferer from a particular phobia by the gradual and controlled exposure of the patient to the cause of the phobia.
Floodless adj Without flood or flooding; having no floods, devoid of floods.
Floodlight n Artificial illumination of great brilliancy and broad beam; specifically, a lighting unit equipped with a high-powered projector, enveloping the desired object in a broad flood of light.
Flood mark n A high-tide or high-water mark.
Flood-tide n The rising of an in-flowing tide. 2. high tide, high water.
Floodwall n A primarily vertical artificial wall designed to contain the water of a river or other waterway which may rise to unusual levels during seasonal or extreme weather events.
Flood waters n The water caused or left by floods.
Floodway n A piece of flooded road or path. 2. a channel constructed for the purpose of taking the floodwaters of a river. 3. a broad, flat area of land adjacent to a river or stream which is leveled by annual flooding and by the lateral and downstream movement of meanders. 4. another name for a flood bypass. 5. a large-capacity channel or culvert designed to capture and divert floodwaters or excess streamflow from populous or flood-prone areas and eventually drain it into a river or other body of water, e.g. an artificial drainage canal bounded by levees. (They often run below street level in larger cities). 6. a road crossing of a flood-prone channel, built at or close to the natural ground level. (It is similar to a causeway but crosses a shallow and often dry depression that is subject to flooding, rather than a continuously flooded waterway). 7. a part of a floodplain kept clear of encumbrances and reserved for emergency diversion of floodwaters.
Flood-womb n A riverbed.
Flood-wood n Pieces of wood brought down waterways by flood.
Floody adj Prone or inclined to flooding.
Floor n The lower part of a room. 2. the lower inside surface of a hollow space. 3. horizontal structure dividing a building. 4. a supporting surface of a structure. 5. the part of the house assigned to the members of a legislative assembly. 6. the right to speak in a legislative assembly. 7. near-horizontal part of a vessel. 8. the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. 9. a horizontal, flat ore body. 10. the trading area of a Stock exchange. 11. (mathematics) the largest integer less than or equal to a given number. 12, the ground area of a studio; thus 'on the floor: a program in protection.
Floor vb To cover with a floor. 2. to strike down. 3. silence with a conclusive answer. 4. (colloquial) to finish or make an end of.
Floor phr "Fall Through the Floor" - be extremely surprised.
Floor phr "Floor It' - to put down the accelerator hard and fast, that is flat to the floor of the car.
Floor phr "Floor Somebody" - knock somebody down or defeat in an argument.
Floor phr "From the Floor" - of a speech etc. given by a member of the audience, not by those on the platform.
Floor phr "Get In On the Ground Floor" - to be in at the beginning of something. 2. to invest on very favorable terms.
Floor phr "Hold the Floor" - speak at, dominate a conversation or meeting.
Floor phr "On the Floor" - a program in protection
Floor phr "Sink Through The Floor" - fall steeply and rapidly.
Floor phr "Take the Floor" -stand up to speak; or begin to dance.
Floor phr "There's Blood On the Floor" - this has caused great anguish.
Floor phr "Wipe the Floor With" - defeat convincingly and easily. 2. to inflict a humiliating defeat on someone.
Floorboard n A long wooden board used for flooring.
Floor cloth n A cloth used for washing the floor.
Floored adj Being provided with a floor (an area or a room).
Floorer n A tradesman who constructs floors
Flooring n Material for the making of a floor. 2. floors collectively; a floor.
Floor-heads n The upper side of a piece of floor timber.
Flooring n A floor. 2. material used to make. 3. in boxing, the act of knocking one's opponent to the floor; a knockdown.
Floor-leader n A party leader in either house of the US congress, in charge of party organization and many privileges of the floor.
Floor-length n Especially of clothing: reaching the floor.
Floorless adj Without a floor.
Floor show n Entertaintment consisting of dancing, singing, etc. presented on the dance floor of a night club or cabaret.
Floor through n An apartment that takes up the entire floor of a building.
Floor-walker n In a retail store, one who oversess the employees on the floor, directs customers, etc.
Floorwise adj As on a floor.
Floor work n Any part of a dance or aerobics performed close to the floor.
Flote n Flotilla or fleet.
Flought vb To flee, to take refuge.
Flow n The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression. 2. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) 2. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas. 3. any uninterrupted stream or discharge. 4. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of non-pregnant women from puberty to menopause. 5. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. 6. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
Flow vb Undergone menstruation. 2. cover or swamp with water. 3. fall or flow in a certain way. 4. move or progress freely as if in a stream. 5. move along, of liquids. 6. cause to flow. 7. be abundantly presents
Flow phr "A Lot of Water Has Flown Under the Bridge Since Then" - much has happened since then.
Flow phr "Flow Along" - move across in a steady manner
Flow phr "Flow Away From" - move out from a point.
Flow phr "Flow From" - follow logically from, result from.
Flow phr "Flow Over" - (of a noisy or disturbing event) - take place all around somebody without greatly effecting them; wash over.
Flow phr "Go With the Flow" - be relaxed and not resist the tide of events.
Flow phr "The Ebb and Flow" - fluctuations.
Flowing n A moving, running fluent, curving gracefully , as lines, falling in folds, as drapery.
Flowingly adv In a smooth,fluent, running manner.
Flowingness n Fluency; tendency to flow; a flowing tendency.
Flowly adv In a flowing or smooth manner.
Flow-on n A wage or salary adjustment made as a consequence of one already made in similar or related occupation. 2. a consequence. 3.a corollary.
Flow-sheet n A flow-chart.
Flowsome adj Fuild, inclining to flow, liquidy.
Flowstone n A rock or rock formation deposited by water flowing in thin sheets.
Flowy adj Flowing, able to flow.
Flutter vb To flap or wave quickly. 2. to flap the wings without flying. 3. to cause something to flutter. 4. to drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
Flutter n The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.  2. a state of agitation.  3. an abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. 4. small bet or risky investment. 5. The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
Flutter phr "Flutter About" - move here and there in a nervous, restless way.
Flutter phr "Flutter Down" - descend, come down with sharp irregular flapping movement.
Flutter phr "Flutter One's Eyelashes At (Somebody)" - catch the attention of somebody of the opposite sex.
Flutter phr "Have a Flutter" - make a modest bet.
Flutterer n A vagrant, itinerant, vagabond.
Fluttering n The action of waving or flapping rapidly in a irregular manner.
Fluttery adj Waving or flapping rapidly in a irregular manner. 2. to fly by a quick light flapping of the wings.
Fly n A two-winged insects characterized by active flight. 2. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth.

3. a fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect 4. a flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent. 5. (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air.

Fly vb To decrease rapidly and disappear; fly away. 2. change quickly from one emotional state to another "fly into a fit" 3. transport by aeroplane. 4. be dispersed or disseminated. 5. travel in an airplane. 6. move quickly or suddenly.

7. travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft. 8. cause to fly or float. travel through the air; be airborne. 9. operate an airplane. 10. pass away rapidly. 11. run away quickly. 12. display in the air or cause to float.

Fly n adj (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked.
Fly phr "As the Crow Flies" - fly or travel in a direct line. 2. by the shortest distance.
Fly phr "Break a Fly on the Wheel" - to punish someone more severely than the crime deserves.
Fly phr "Drop Like Flies" - in very large numbers.
Fly phr "Fly At Somebody" - attack somebody (physically or verbally).
Fly phr "Fly Blind" - to fly through fog etc depending for direction on aircraft's instruments only.
Fly phr "Fly High" - be ambitious.
Fly phr "Fly Into" - (of a pilot) cause to land at a airport. 2. (of a passenger) come in to land.
Fly phr "Fly Into" - suddenly become very angry.
Fly phr "Fly Off the Handle" - burst out in irrational anger. 2. lose one's temper.
Fly phr "Fly On the Wall" - an eavesdropper.
Fly phr "Fly on the Wheel" - one who magnifies his own importance.
Fly phr 'Fly Open" - to burst open suddenly.
Fly phr "Fly Out At" - attack with angry words.
Fly phr "Fly Out the Window" - to be lost.
Fly phr "Fly the Nest" - (of a young bird) - leaving its nest on becoming able to fly. 2. (informal) a(of a young person) - leave their parents home to set up their home elsewhere.
Fly phr "Have to Fly" - to need to leave in order to get to one's next destination quickly.
Fly phr "Let Fly at Somebody" - harangue, scold severely; attack with strong words
Fly phr "Like Flies" - in large numbers.
Fly phr "Make Feathers Fly" - cause trouble to those misbehaving. 2. cause strife and upheaval.
Fly phr "Make the Sparks Fly" - cause or bring about a fierce argument. 2. cause rapid activity to take place.
Fly phr "On the Fly" - while flying, while in the air, in haste.
Fly phr "Pigs Might Fly" - that is most unlikely.
Fly phr "Rise to the Fly" - be a victim of a hoax.
Fly phr "Send Flying" - knock over.
Fly phr "The Bird Has Flown" - the person sought is no longer around.
Fly phr "There is No Flies On Him or Her" - he or she is no fool.
Fly phr "Times Fly" - time passes more quickly than one realizes.
Fly-a-way n A person or thing that is flighty, swift or elusive.
Fly-a-way adj Flighty, extravagant, volatile. 2. disposed to flightiness, fluttering, restless, giddy; capricious.
Fly-bane n Popular name for various plants Catchfly. 2. the ploughman's spikenard's - (inula conyza). 3. poison for flies and spiders.
Fly-bitten adj Bitten by flies. 2. fly-speckled. 3. stung by flies.
Fly-blown adj Tainted with fly-blow. 2. putrid, tainted, impure. 3. drunk (slang)
Fly-by n The passage of a spacecraft relatively near a heavenly body, for taking photographs of its surface. 2. a, but flies close enough to it space mission that does not land on a planet for special camera and other monitoring equipment to send vital information back to Earth.
Fly-by-night n One who is financially insecure or untrustworthy. 2. one who cheats financial investors or creditors by fleeing. 3. operating only for a short time and then doing so in an untrustworthy way.
Fly-by-night adj Financially precarious or irresponsible.
Fly-by-wire n a semi-automatic and usually computer-regulated system for controlling the flight of an aircraft or spacecraft.
Fly-drive n A holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental.
Fly-drive adj Designating a holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental.
Fly-drive vb To take a holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental.
Flyer n That which flies; a flier, a flying bird, airplane, or like. 2. an aviator, pilot or airman. 3. fugitive, runaway, escapee. 4. a rapidly moving piece in a machine or machinery. 5. a printed handbill. 6. a single step in a straight flight of stairs. 7. a bus or express train with a fast schedule. 8. a venture as in the stock market.
Fly-fisher n One who uses artificial flies as bait.
Fly-fishing n Angling or fishing with an artificial fly as a lure.
Fly-in n Of workers, who fly to remote area to work, as in mines; living there in temporary accommodation, and working for periods up to three months before returning or ('flying out') to their homes often thousands kilometers away.
Flying n The action of moving through the air; air navigation. 2. in racing, the passing of the starting post at full speed. 2. any rapid beginning.
Flying phr "Flying High" - successfully holding a position of power or importance.
Flying phr "Have Flying Feet" - an ability to run fast.
Flying phr "Make a Flying Start" - initial advantage or very good beginning. 2. get operational very quickly.
Flying phr "Send Flying" - knock over.
Flying-bishop n (Informal) an itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women.
Flying-boat n A seaplane with boat-like fuselage capable of floating on water.
Flying-eavesdropper n A spy plane.
Flying-field n A field with a graded portion for taking off and landing and an unimproved area for flying operations.
Flying-fish n A tropical and sub-tropical fish which can leap from the water and by aid of long pectoral fins fly through the air even against a strong head-wind.
Flying-fox n A large fruit-eating bat, esp. a genus 'pteropus' of the warmer part of the Old World, with a fox-like snout.
Flying-leap phr A running jump.
Flying-rat n The urban pigeon.
Flying shuttle n A shuttle moving mechanically and doubling the width of the cloth in half the time. (invented by John Kay in !733).
Flying-shot n A shot fired at a moving target. 2. (fig.) an attempt at random.
Flying-speed n The speed of an aircraft during normal operating conditions.
Flying-start n A quick and auspicious beginning. 2. an initial advantage or good beginning, which in itself takes one some way towards the completion of a task, race, ambition, etc.
Flying-wing n An aircraft with little or no fuselage and no tail-plane.
Flyleaf n A blank leaf at the beginning of a book.
Flyness n A state of being wide-awake, alertness.
Fly-net n A net used to keep off flies and other insects from humans and animals. 2. any netting or screen on a window to exclude insects.
Flyover n A bridge or road over another. 2. a public display of military aircrafts as a demonstration of strength, variety of types, and maneuverability.
Fly-sheet n A tract or circular of two or four pages. 2. a fabric cover pitched outside and over a tent to give extra protection against bad weather.
Fly-speck n The dot made by the excrement of a fly. 2. any slight speck.
Fly-stone n Cobalt, used as a poison for flies, worms, etc., when ground and mixed with sugar and water.
Fly through n In a virtual reality environment, a 'flythrough' is movement of an object or model through a predefined path. 2. an airplane flight made through a specific area, esp. for observation; also, a computer-simulated airplane flight through an area or object.
Flyway n A flying route taken regularly by migratory birds to and from their breeding grounds.
Fly-wheel n A wheel with a heavy rim, attached to a revolving shaft, in order either to regulate the motion of the machinery, or to accumulate power.
Fly-weight n A boxer weighing less than 112lb or 50k.
Fly-wort n Catasetum, formerly myanthus, used in potions prepared to ward off flies.