Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 41

Flower (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flower (v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flowerage (n.) State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.

Flower-de-luce (n.) 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.

Flowerer (n.) A plant which flowers or blossoms.

Floweret (n.) A small flower; a floret.

Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

Flowerful (a.) Abounding with flowers.

Flower-gentle (n.) A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

Floweriness (n.) The state of being flowery.

Flowering (a.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.

Flowering (n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.

Flowering (n.) The act of adorning with flowers.

Flowerless (a.) Having no flowers.

Flowerlessness (n.) State of being without flowers.

Flowerpot (n.) A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

Flowery (a.) Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Flowery (a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.

Flowery-kirtled (a.) Dressed with garlands of flowers.

Flowing (a.) That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.

Flowing () a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

Flowingly (adv.) In a flowing manner.

Flowingness (n.) Flowing tendency or quality; fluency.

Flowk (n.) See 1st Fluke.

Flown () p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

Flown (a.) Flushed, inflated.

Floxed silk () See Floss silk, under Floss.

Floyte (n. & v.) A variant of Flute.

Fluate (n.) A fluoride.

Fluavil (n.) A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

Flucan (n.) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.

Fluctiferous (a.) Tending to produce waves.

Fluctisonous (a.) Sounding like waves.

Fluctuability (n.) The capacity or ability to fluctuate.

Fluctuant (a.) Moving like a wave; wavering

Fluctuant (a.) showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.

Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.

Fluctuated (imp. & p. p.) of Fluctuate

Fluctuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fluctuate

Fluctuate (v. i.) To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.

Fluctuate (v. i.) To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.

Fluctuate (v. t.) To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.

Fluctuation (n.) A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.

Fluctuation (n.) A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.

Fluctuation (n.) The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.

Flue (n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

Flue (n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

Flue (n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.

Flue (n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.

Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

Fluence (n.) Fluency.

Fluency (n.) The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

Fluent (a.) Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

Fluent (a.) Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.

Fluent (n.) A current of water; a stream.

Fluent (n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

Fluently (adv.) In a fluent manner.

Fluentness (n.) The quality of being fluent.

Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Fluey (a.) Downy; fluffy.

Fluff (n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Fluffy (superl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

Flugel (n.) A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.

Flugelman (n.) Same as Fugleman.

Fluid (a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.

Fluid (n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.

Fluidal (a.) Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.

Fluinity (n.) The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.

Fluidized (imp. & p. p.) of Fluidize

Fluidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fluidize

Fluidize (v. t.) To render fluid.

Fluidness (n.) The state of being flluid; fluidity.

Fluidounce (n.) See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.

Fluidrachm (n.) See Fluid dram, under Fluid.

Flukan (n.) Flucan.

Fluke (n.) The European flounder. See Flounder.

Fluke (n.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.

Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

Fluke (n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.

Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2.

Fluky (a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke.

Flume (n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Fluminous (a.) Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Flummery (n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

Flummery (n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

Flung () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Flunked (imp. & p. p.) of Flunk

Flunking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flunk

Flunk (v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

Flunk (v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.

Flunk (n.) A failure or backing out

Flunk (n.) a total failure in a recitation.

Flunkies (pl. ) of Flunky

Flunky (n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

Flunky (n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

Flunky (n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

Flunkydom (n.) The place or region of flunkies.

Flunlyism (n.) The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.

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