1. Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. NWAD FLAWY.2
2. Subject to sudden gusts of wind. NWAD FLAWY.3
1. A plant of the genus Linum, consisting of a single slender stalk, the skin or herl of which is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. The skin consists of fine fibers, which may be so separated as to be spun into threads as fine as silk. NWAD FLAX.2
2. The skin or fibrous part of the plant when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. NWAD FLAX.3
1. Made of flax; as flaxen thread. NWAD FLAXEN.2
2. Resembling flax; of the color of flax; fair, long, and flowing; as flaxen hair. NWAD FLAXEN.3
1. To skin; to strip off the skin of an animal; as, to flay an ox. NWAD FLAY.2
2. To take off the skin or surface of any thing. [Not used.] NWAD FLAY.3
An insect of the genus Pulex. It has two eyes and six feet; the feelers are like threads; the rostrum is inflected, setaceous, and armed with a string. The flea is remarkable for its agility, leaping to a surprising distance, and its bite is very troublesome. NWAD FLEA.2
1. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite. NWAD FLEABITE.2
2. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea. NWAD FLEABITE.3
1. Bitten or stung by a flea. NWAD FLEABITTEN.2
2. Mean; worthless; of low birth or station. NWAD FLEABITTEN.3
In surgery and farriery, a sharp instrument used for opening veins for letting blood. NWAD FLEAM.2
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. NWAD FLECK.2
Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. NWAD FLECK.3
[These words are obsolete or used only in poetry.] NWAD FLECK.4
Feathered; furnished with fethers or wings; able to fly. NWAD FLEDGE.2
His locks behind, illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, lay waving round. NWAD FLEDGE.3
The birds were not yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. NWAD FLEDGE.5
1. To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil. The enemy fled at the first fire. NWAD FLEE.2
Arise, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt. Matthew 2:13. NWAD FLEE.3
2. To depart; to leave; to hasten away. NWAD FLEE.4
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7. NWAD FLEE.5
3. To avoid; to keep at a distance from. NWAD FLEE.6
Flee fornication; flee from idolatry. 1 Corinthians 6:10. NWAD FLEE.7
To flee the question or from the question, in legislation, is said of a legislator who, when a question is to be put to the house, leaves his seat to avoid the dilemma of voting against his conscience, or giving an unpopular vote. In the phrases in which this verb appears to be transitive, there is really an ellipsis. NWAD FLEE.8
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time. NWAD FLEECE.2
1. To shear off a covering or growth of wool. NWAD FLEECE.4
2. To strip of money or property; to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority. Arbitrary princes fleece their subjects; and clients complain that they are sometimes fleeced by their lawyers. NWAD FLEECE.5
This word is rarely or never used for plundering in war by a licentious soldiery; but is properly used to express a stripping by contributions levied on a conquered people. NWAD FLEECE.6
3. To spread over as with wool; to make white. NWAD FLEECE.7
1. Covered with wool; woolly; as a fleecy flock. NWAD FLEECY.2
2. Resembling wool or a fleece; soft; complicated; as fleecy snow; fleecy locks; fleecy hosiery. NWAD FLEECY.3
1. To deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; as, to fleer and flout. NWAD FLEER.2
Covered with an antic face, NWAD FLEER.3
To fleer and scorn at our soleminity. NWAD FLEER.4
2. To leer; to grin with an air of civility. NWAD FLEER.5
A teacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. NWAD FLEER.6
1. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks. NWAD FLEER.9
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns. NWAD FLEER.10
2. A grin of civility. NWAD FLEER.11
A treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. NWAD FLEER.12
A navy or squadron of ships; a number of ships in company, whether ships of war, or of commerce. It more generally signifies ships of war. NWAD FLEET.3
1. Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as a fleet horse or dog. NWAD FLEET.5
2. Moving with velocity; as fleet winds. NWAD FLEET.6
3. Light; superficially fruitful; or thin; not penetrating deep; as soil. NWAD FLEET.7
4. Skimming the surface. NWAD FLEET.8
1. To fly swiftly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. To fleet away is to vanish. NWAD FLEET.10
How all the other passions fleet to air. NWAD FLEET.11
2. To be in a transient state. NWAD FLEET.12
3. to float. NWAD FLEET.13
1. to skim the surface; to pass over rapidly; as a ship that fleets the gulf. NWAD FLEET.15
2. To pass lightly, or in mirth and joy; as, to fleet away time. [Not used.] NWAD FLEET.16
3. To skim milk. [Local, in England.] NWAD FLEET.17
The verb in the transitive form is rarely or never used in America. NWAD FLEET.18
1. Passing rapidly; flying with velocity. NWAD FLEETING.2
2. a. Transient; not durable; as the fleeting hours or moments. NWAD FLEETING.3
1. A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids. Under the general appellation of flesh, we include the muscles, fat, glands etc., which invest the bones and are covered with the skin. It is sometimes restricted to the muscles. NWAD FLESH.2
2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable. NWAD FLESH.3
Flesh without being qualified with acids, is too alkalescent a diet. NWAD FLESH.4
3. The body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish. In Lent, the Catholics abstain from flesh, but eat fish. NWAD FLESH.5
4. The body, as distinguished from the soul. NWAD FLESH.6
As if this flesh, which walls about our life, NWAD FLESH.7
Were brass impregnable. NWAD FLESH.8
5. Animal nature; animals of all kinds. NWAD FLESH.9
The end of all flesh is come before me. Genesis 6:13. NWAD FLESH.10
6. Men in general; mankind. NWAD FLESH.11
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. Genesis 6:3. NWAD FLESH.12
7. Human nature. NWAD FLESH.13
The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. John 1:14. NWAD FLESH.14
8. Carnality; corporeal appetites. NWAD FLESH.15
Fasting serves to mortify the flesh. NWAD FLESH.16
The flesh lusteth against the spirit. Galatians 5:17. NWAD FLESH.17
9. A carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature. NWAD FLESH.18
They that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:8. NWAD FLESH.19
10. The corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature. NWAD FLESH.20
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 15:50. NWAD FLESH.21
11. The present life; the state of existence in this world. NWAD FLESH.22
To abide in the flesh is more needful for you. Philippians 1:24. NWAD FLESH.23
12. Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services. NWAD FLESH.24
What shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? Romans 4:1; Galatians 3:3. NWAD FLESH.25
13. Kindred; stock; family. NWAD FLESH.26
He is our brother, and our flesh. Genesis 37:27. NWAD FLESH.27
14. In botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, etc., which is fit to be eaten. NWAD FLESH.28
One flesh, denotes intimate relation. To be one flesh is to be closely united, as in marriage. Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31. NWAD FLESH.29
After the flesh, according to outward appearances, John 8:15 NWAD FLESH.30
Or according to the common powers of nature. Galatians 4:23. NWAD FLESH.31
Or according to sinful lusts and inclinations. Romans 8:4, 5. NWAD FLESH.32
An arm of flesh, human strength or aid. NWAD FLESH.33
1. To initiate; a sportsman’s use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh. NWAD FLESH.35
2. To harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing. Men fleshed in cruelty; women fleshed in malice. NWAD FLESH.36
3. To glut; to satiate. NWAD FLESH.37
The wild dog NWAD FLESH.38
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent. NWAD FLESH.39
1. Initiated; accustomed; glutted. NWAD FLESHED.2
2. Fat; fleshy. NWAD FLESHED.3
1. Pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. NWAD FLESHLY.2
2. Carnal; worldly; lascivious. NWAD FLESHLY.3
Abstain from fleshly lusts. 1 Peter 2:11. NWAD FLESHLY.4
3. Animal; not vegetable. NWAD FLESHLY.5
4. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. NWAD FLESHLY.6
Vain of fleshly arm. NWAD FLESHLY.7
Fleshly wisdom. 2 Corinthians 1:12. NWAD FLESHLY.8
1. Full of flesh; plump; musculous. NWAD FLESHY.2
The sole of his foot is fleshy. NWAD FLESHY.3
2. Fat; gross; corpulent; as a fleshy man. NWAD FLESHY.4
3. Corporeal. NWAD FLESHY.5
4. Full of pulp; pulpous; plump; as fruit. NWAD FLESHY.6
But the use of the word as an appellative has ceased with the practice of archery. NWAD FLETCHER.2
The people flew upon the spoil. 1 Samuel 14:32. NWAD FLEW.2
1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light. NWAD FLEXIBILITY.2
2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper. NWAD FLEXIBILITY.3
1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as a flexible rod; a flexible plant. NWAD FLEXIBLE.2
2. Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable. NWAD FLEXIBLE.3
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. NWAD FLEXIBLE.4
It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm. NWAD FLEXIBLE.5
3. Ductile; manageable; tractable; as the tender and flexible minds of youth. Flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable. NWAD FLEXIBLE.6
4. That may be turned or accommodated. NWAD FLEXIBLE.7
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. NWAD FLEXIBLE.8
1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility. NWAD FLEXIBLENESS.2
2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier. NWAD FLEXIBLENESS.3
1. The act of bending. NWAD FLEXION.2
2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. NWAD FLEXION.3
3. A turn; a cast; as a flexion of the eye. NWAD FLEXION.4
1. Winding; having turns or windings; as a flexuous rivulet. NWAD FLEXUOUS.2
2. Bending; winding; wavering; not steady; as a flexuous flame. NWAD FLEXUOUS.3
3. In botany, bending or bent; changing its direction in a curve, from joint to joint, from bud to bud, or from flower to flower. NWAD FLEXUOUS.4
1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint. NWAD FLEXURE.2
2. The act of bending. NWAD FLEXURE.3
3. The part bent; a joint. NWAD FLEXURE.4
4. The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe. NWAD FLEXURE.5
1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying; to strike rapidly with the wings. NWAD FLICKER.2
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. NWAD FLICKER.3
2. To fluctuate. NWAD FLICKER.4
1. Fluttering; flapping the wings without flight. NWAD FLICKERING.2
2. a. With amorous motions of the eye. NWAD FLICKERING.3
The fair Lavinia - looks a little flickering after Turnus. NWAD FLICKERING.4
1. One that flies or flees. NWAD FLIER.2
2. A runaway; a fugitive. NWAD FLIER.3
3. A part of a machine which, by moving rapidly, equalizes and regulates the motion of the whole; as the flier of a jack. NWAD FLIER.4
1. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure. NWAD FLIGHT.2
Pray ye that your flight be not in winter. Matthew 24:20. NWAD FLIGHT.3
To put to flight, to turn to flight, is to compel to run away; to force to escape. NWAD FLIGHT.4
2. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volation; as the flight of birds and insects. NWAD FLIGHT.5
3. The manner of flying. Every fowl has its particular flight; the flight of the eagle is high; the flight of the swallow is rapid, with sudden turns. NWAD FLIGHT.6
4. Removal from place to place by flying. NWAD FLIGHT.7
5. A flock of birds flying in company; as a flight of pigeons or wild geese. NWAD FLIGHT.8
6. A number of beings flying or moving through the air together; as a flight of angels. NWAD FLIGHT.9
7. A number of things passing through the air together; a volley; as a flight of arrows. NWAD FLIGHT.10
8. A periodical flying of birds in flocks; as the spring flight or autumnal flight of ducks or pigeons. NWAD FLIGHT.11
9. In England, the birds produced in the same season. NWAD FLIGHT.12
10. The space passed by flying. NWAD FLIGHT.13
11. A mounting; a soaring; lofty elevation and excursion; as a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition. NWAD FLIGHT.14
12. Excursion; wandering; extravagant sally; as a flight of folly. NWAD FLIGHT.15
13. The power of flying. NWAD FLIGHT.16
14. In certain lead works, a substance that flies off in smoke. NWAD FLIGHT.17
Flight of stairs, the series of stairs from the floor, or from one platform to another. NWAD FLIGHT.18
1. Fleeting; swift. NWAD FLIGHTY.2
The flighty purpose never is o’ertook. NWAD FLIGHTY.3
2. Wild; indulging the sallies of imagination. NWAD FLIGHTY.4
3. Disordered in mind; somewhat delirious. NWAD FLIGHTY.5
1. Weak; feeble; slight; vain; without strength or solid substance; as a flimsy pretext; a flimsy excuse; flimsy objections. NWAD FLIMSY.2
2. Without strength or force; spiritless. NWAD FLIMSY.3
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. NWAD FLIMSY.4
3. Thin; of loose texture; as flimsy cloth or stuff. [Little used.] NWAD FLIMSY.5
1. To shrink; to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail of proceeding, or of performing any thing. Never flinch from duty. One of the parties flinched from the combat. NWAD FLINCH.2
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. NWAD FLINCH.3
2. To fail. NWAD FLINCH.4
[This seems to be splinter, without the prefix.] NWAD FLINDER.2
1. To cast, send or throw from the hand; to hurl; as, to fling a stone at a bird. NWAD FLING.2
Tis fate that flings the dice; and as she flings, NWAD FLING.3
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants, kings. NWAD FLING.4
2. To dart; to cast with violence; to send forth. NWAD FLING.5
He - like Jove, his lightning flung. NWAD FLING.6
3. To send forth; to emit; to scatter. NWAD FLING.7
Every beam new transient colors flings. NWAD FLING.8
4. To throw; to drive by violence. NWAD FLING.9
5. To throw to the ground; to prostrate. NWAD FLING.10
The wrestler flung his antagonist. NWAD FLING.11
6. To baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. NWAD FLING.12
To fling away, to reject; to discard. NWAD FLING.13
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. NWAD FLING.14
1. To fling down, to demolish; to ruin. NWAD FLING.15
2. To throw to the ground. NWAD FLING.16
To fling out, to utter; to speak; as, to fling out hard words against another. NWAD FLING.17
To fling off, to baffle in the chase, to defeat of prey. NWAD FLING.18
To fling in, to throw in; to make an allowance or deduction, or not to charge in an account. In settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days work. NWAD FLING.19
To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. NWAD FLING.20
To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design. NWAD FLING.21
1. To flounce; to wince; to fly into violent and irregular motions. The horse began to kick and fling. NWAD FLING.23
2. To cast in the teeth; to utter harsh language; to sneer; to upbraid. The scold began to flout and fling. NWAD FLING.24
To fling out, to grow unruly or outrageous. NWAD FLING.25
1. A throw; a cast from the hand. NWAD FLING.27
2. A gibe; a sneer; a sarcasm; a severe or contemptuous remark. NWAD FLING.28
I, who love to have a fling, NWAD FLING.29
Both at senate house and king. NWAD FLING.30
1. In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color. It is amorphous, interspersed in other stones, or in nodules or rounded lumps. Its surface is generally uneven, and covered with a rind or crust, either calcarious or argillaceous. It is very hard, strikes fire with steel, and is an ingredient in glass. NWAD FLINT.2
2. A piece of the above described stone used in firearms to strike fire. NWAD FLINT.3
3. Any thing proverbially hard; as a heart of flint. NWAD FLINT.4