Flitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flit
Flit (v. i.) To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
Flit (v. i.) To flutter; to rove on the wing.
Flit (v. i.) To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
Flit (v. i.) To remove from one place or habitation to another.
Flit (v. i.) To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
Flit (a.) Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Flitches (pl. ) of Flitch
Flitch (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Flitch (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
Flitch (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
Flite (v. i.) To scold; to quarrel.
Flitter (v. i.) To flutter.
Flitter (v. t.) To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
Flitter (v. i.) A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Flittermouse (n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flittern (a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.
Flittiness (n.) Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
Flitting (n.) A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
Flitting (n.) A removal from one habitation to another.
Flittingly (adv.) In a flitting manner.
Flitty (a.) Unstable; fluttering.
Flix (n.) Down; fur.
Flix (n.) The flux; dysentery.
Flon (pl. ) of Flo
Flo (n.) An arrow.
Float (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
Float (v. i.) A coal cart.
Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
Floated (imp. & p. p.) of Float
Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float
Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Floatable (a.) That may be floated.
Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.
Floatation (n.) See Flotation.
Floater (n.) One who floats or swims.
Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.
Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Flobert (n.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.
Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
Floccose (n.) Spotted with small tufts like wool.
Floccose (n.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
Floccular (a.) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
Flocculated (imp. & p. p.) of Flocculate
Flocculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flocculate
Flocculate (v. i.) To aggregate into small lumps.
Flocculate (a.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
Flocculation (n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
Flocculence (n.) The state of being flocculent.
Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Flocculent (a.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
Flocculi (pl. ) of Flocculus
Flocculus (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
Flocci (pl. ) of Floccus
Floccus (n.) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
Floccus (n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
Floccus (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
Flock (n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
Flocked (imp. & p. p.) of Flock
Flocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flock
Flock (v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
Flock (v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.
Flock (n.) A lock of wool or hair.
Flock (n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
Flock (v. t.) 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.
Flockling (n.) A lamb.
Flockly (adv.) In flocks; in crowds.
Flockmel (adv.) In a flock; in a body.
Flocky (a.) Abounding with flocks; floccose.
Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Flogged (imp. & p. p.) of Flog
Flogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flog
Flog (v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Flogger (n.) One who flogs.
Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Flogging (a. & n.) from Flog, v. t.