Floss (n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
Floss (n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
Floss (n.) A small stream of water.
Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Flossification (n.) A flowering; florification.
Flossy (a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
Flota (n.) A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
Flotage (n.) The state of floating.
Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Flotant (a.) Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
Flotation (n.) The act, process, or state of floating.
Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
Flote (v. t.) To fleet; to skim.
Flote (n.) A wave.
Flotery (a.) Wavy; flowing.
Flotilla (n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Flotsam (n.) Alt. of Flotson
Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
Flotten (v. t.) Skimmed.
Flounced (imp. & p. p.) of Flounce
Flouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flounce
Flounce (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
Flounce (n.) The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
Flounce (n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
Flounce (v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
Flounder (n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
Flounder (n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
Floundered (imp. & p. p.) of Flounder
Floundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flounder
Flounder (v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
Flounder (n.) The act of floundering.
Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
Floured (imp. & p. p.) of Flour
Flouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flour
Flour (v. t.) To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
Flour (v. t.) To sprinkle with flour.
Floured (p. a.) Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
Flourished (imp. & p. p.) of Flourish
Flourishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flourish
Flourish (v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
Flourish (v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
Flourish (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Flourish (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Flourish (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Flourish (v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Flourish (v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Flourish (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
Flourish (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Flourishes (pl. ) of Flourish
Flourish (n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
Flourish (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
Flourish (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
Flourish (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
Flourish (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Flourisher (n.) One who flourishes.
Flourishingly (adv.) In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
Floury (a.) Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
Flouted (imp. & p. p.) of Flout
Flouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flout
Flout (v. t.) To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Flout (v. i.) To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
Flout (n.) A mock; an insult.
Flouter (n.) One who flouts; a mocker.
Floutingly (adv.) With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
Flow () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Flowed (imp. & p. p.) of Flow
Flowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flow
Flow (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
Flow (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
Flow (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
Flow (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
Flow (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
Flow (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
Flow (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
Flow (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
Flow (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
Flow (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
Flow (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
Flowage (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
Flowen () imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
Flower (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
Flower (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
Flower (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
Flower (n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
Flower (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
Flower (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
Flower (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
Flower (n.) Menstrual discharges.
Flowered (imp. & p. p.) of Flower
Flowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flower
Flower (v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
Flower (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.
Flower (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.