Flon (n. pl.) See Flo.
Flong () imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
Flood (v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Flood
Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flood
Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
Flood (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Flooder (n.) One who floods anything.
Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.
Flookan (n.) Alt. of Flukan
Flukan (n.) See Flucan.
Flooky (a.) Fluky.
Floor (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story.
Floor (n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.
Floor (n.) The right to speak.
Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
Floor (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
Floor (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
Floored (imp. & p. p.) of Floor
Flooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floor
Floor (v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
Floor (v. t.) 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.
Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
Floorage (n.) Floor space.
Floorer (n.) 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 (n. pl.) The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
Flooring (n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
Floorless (a.) Having no floor.
Floorwalker (n.) One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Flopped (imp. & p. p.) of Flop
Flopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flop
Flop (v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
Flop (v. t.) To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
Flop (v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
Flop (v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
Flop (n.) Act of flopping.
Floppy (n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
Flopwing (n.) The lapwing.
Flora (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
Flora (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
Floral (a.) Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
Floral (a.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
Florally (adv.) In a floral manner.
Floramour (n.) The plant love-lies-bleeding.
Floran (n.) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
Floreal (n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.
Floren (n.) A cerain gold coin; a Florence.
Florence (n.) An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
Florence (n.) A kind of cloth.
Florentine (a.) Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.
Florentine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.
Florentine (n.) A kind of silk.
Florentine (n.) A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.
Florescence (n.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Floret (n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
Floriage (n.) Bloom; blossom.
Floriated (a.) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Floricomous (a.) Having the head adorned with flowers.
Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculturist (n.) One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Florid (a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Florid (a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
Florid (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
Florid (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Florida bean () The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
Florida bean () One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
Florideae (n. pl.) A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
Floridity (n.) The quality of being florid; floridness.
Floridly (adv.) In a florid manner.
Floridness (n.) The quality of being florid.
Floriferous (a.) Producing flowers.
Florification (n.) The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
Floriform (a.) Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.
Floriken (n.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.
Florilege (n.) The act of gathering flowers.
Florimer (n.) See Floramour.
Florin (n.) 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 (n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Florist (n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Floroon (n.) A border worked with flowers.
Florulent (a.) Flowery; blossoming.
Floscular (a.) Flosculous.
Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
Floscule (n.) A floret.
Flosculous (a.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
Flos-ferri (n.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.