Flutter (n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
Flutter (n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Flutterer (n.) One who, or that which, flutters.
Flutteringly (adv.) In a fluttering manner.
Fluty (a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.
Fluvial (a.) Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
Fluvialist (n.) One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
Fluviatic (a.) Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.
Fluviatile (a.) Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.
Fluvio-marine (a.) Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
Flux (n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
Flux (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
Flux (n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Flux (n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
Flux (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
Flux (n.) The matter thus discharged.
Flux (n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
Flux (n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
Fluxed (imp. & p. p.) of Flux
Fluxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flux
Flux (v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
Flux (v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
Fluxation (n.) The act of fluxing.
Fluxibility (n.) The quality of being fluxible.
Fluxible (a.) Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.
Fluxile (a.) Fluxible.
Fluxility (n.) State of being fluxible.
Fluxion (n.) The act of flowing.
Fluxion (n.) The matter that flows.
Fluxion (n.) Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
Fluxion (n.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
Fluxion (n.) A constantly varying indication.
Fluxion (n.) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
Fluxion (n.) A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
Fluxional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
Fluxionary (a.) Fluxional.
Fluxionary (a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.
Fluxionist (n.) One skilled in fluxions.
Fluxions (n. pl.) See Fluxion, 6(b).
Fluxive (a.) Flowing; also, wanting solidity.
Fluxure (n.) The quality of being fluid.
Fluxure (n.) Fluid matter.
Flew (imp.) of Fly
Flown (p. p.) of Fly
Flying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fly
Fly (v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
Fly (v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
Fly (v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
Fly (v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
Fly (v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
Fly (v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
Fly (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
Fly (v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
Fly (v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
Flies (pl. ) of Fly
Fly (v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
Fly (v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
Fly (v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
Fly (v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
Fly (v. i.) A parasite.
Fly (v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
Fly (v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
Fly (v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Fly (v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
Fly (v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
Fly (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
Fly (v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
Fly (v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
Fly (v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
Fly (v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
Fly (v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
Fly (v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
Fly (v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
Fly (v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
Fly (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
Flybane (n.) A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
Fly-bitten (a.) Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.
Flyblow (v. t.) To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
Flyblow (n.) One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
Flyblown (a.) Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Flyboat (n.) A large Dutch coasting vessel.
Flyboat (n.) A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
Fly-case (n.) The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
Flycatcher (n.) One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
Fly-catching (a.) Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.
Flyer (n.) One that uses wings.
Flyer (n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
Flyer (n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
Flyer (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
Flyer (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
Flyer (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
Flyer (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
Flyfish (n.) A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.
Fly-fish (v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait.
Flying (v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
Flying fish () A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
Flying squirrel () One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.
Flymen (pl. ) of Flyman