Flagrancy (n.) The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
Flagrant (a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
Flagrant (a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
Flagrant (a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Flagrantly (adv.) In a flagrant manner.
Flagrate (v. t.) To burn.
Flagration (n.) A conflagration.
Flagship (n.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
-staves (pl. ) of Flagstaff
-staffs (pl. ) of Flagstaff
Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
Flagstone (n.) A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Flagworm (n.) A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Flaily (a.) Acting like a flail.
Flain () p. p. of Flay.
Flake (n.) A paling; a hurdle.
Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Flake (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Flaked (imp. & p. p.) of Flake
Flaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flake
Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.
Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Flakiness (n.) The state of being flaky.
Flaky (a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Flam (n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Flammed (imp. & p. p.) of Flam
Flamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flam
Flam (v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
Flambeaux (pl. ) of Flambeau
Flambeaus (pl. ) of Flambeau
Flambeau (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
Flamboyant (a.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Flamboyer (n.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
Flame (n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
Flame (n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
Flame (n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
Flame (n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.
Flamed (imp. & p. p.) of Flame
Flaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flame
Flame (n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
Flame (n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
Flame (v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
Flame-colored (a.) Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.
Flameless (a.) Destitute of flame.
Flamelet (n.) A small flame.
Flammens (pl. ) of Flamen
Flamines (pl. ) of Flamen
Flamen (n.) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
Flamineous (a.) Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
Flaming (a.) Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
Flaming (a.) Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
Flaming (a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
Flamingly (adv.) In a flaming manner.
Flamingoes (pl. ) of Flamingo
Flamingo (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
Flaminical (a.) Pertaining to a flamen.
Flammability (n.) The quality of being flammable; inflammability.
Flammable (a.) Inflammable.
Flammation (n.) The act of setting in a flame or blaze.
Flammeous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.
Flammiferous (a.) Producing flame.
Flammivomous (a.) Vomiting flames, as a volcano.
Flammulated (a.) Of a reddish color.
Flamy (a.) Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.
Flanches (pl. ) of Flanch
Flanch (n.) A flange.
Flanch (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
Flanched (a.) Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
Flanconade (n.) A thrust in the side.
Flaneur (n.) One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
Flang (n.) A miner's two-pointed pick.
Flange (n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
Flange (n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
Flanged (imp. & p. p.) of Flange
Flanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flange
Flange (v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
Flange (v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
Flanged (a.) Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
Flank (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
Flank (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
Flank (n.) The side of any building.
Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Flanked (imp. & p. p.) of Flank
Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flank
Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
Flank (v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.
Flank (v. i.) To be posted on the side.
Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
Flankered (imp. & p. p.) of Flanker
Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flanker
Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.
Flanker (v. t.) To attack sideways.
Flannel (n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.