Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 36

Fleeten (n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk.

Fleet-foot (a.) Swift of foot.

Fleeting (a.) Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

Fleetingly (adv.) In a fleeting manner; swiftly.

Fleetings (n. pl.) A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.

Fleetly (adv.) In a fleet manner; rapidly.

Fleetness (n.) Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

Fleigh () imp. of Fly.

Fleme (v. t.) To banish; to drive out; to expel.

Flemer (n.) One who, or that which, banishes or expels.

Fleming (n.) A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

Flemish (a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

Flemish (n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.

Flench (v. t.) Same as Flence.

Flense (v. t.) To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

Flesh (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

Flesh (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

Flesh (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

Flesh (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.

Flesh (n.) Human nature

Flesh (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

Flesh (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Flesh (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

Flesh (n.) Kindred; stock; race.

Flesh (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Fleshed (imp. & p. p.) of Flesh

Fleshing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flesh

Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.

Flesh (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.

Flesh (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Fleshed (a.) Corpulent; fat; having flesh.

Fleshed (a.) Glutted; satiated; initiated.

Flesher (n.) A butcher.

Flesher (n.) A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

Fleshhood (n.) The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.

Fleshiness (n.) The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.

Fleshings (n. pl.) Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.

Fleshless (a.) Destitute of flesh; lean.

Fleshliness (n.) The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.

Fleshing (n.) A person devoted to fleshly things.

Fleshly (a.) Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.

Fleshly (a.) Animal; not/vegetable.

Fleshly (a.) Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.

Fleshly (a.) Carnal; wordly; lascivious.

Fleshly (adv.) In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.

Fleshment (n.) The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.

Fleshmonger (n.) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.

Fleshpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked

Fleshpot (n.) plenty; high living.

Fleshquake (n.) A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.

Fleshy (superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.

Fleshy (superl.) Human.

Fleshy (superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

Flet (p. p.) Skimmed.

Fletched (imp. & p. p.) of Fletch

Fletching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fletch

Fletch (v. t.) To feather, as an arrow.

Fletcher (n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.

Fletiferous (a.) Producing tears.

Fleurs-de-lis (pl. ) of Fleur-de-lis

Fleur-de-lis (n.) The iris. See Flower-de-luce.

Fleur-de-lis (n.) A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

Fleury (a.) Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.

Flew () imp. of Fly.

Flewed (a.) Having large flews.

Flews (n. pl.) The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.

Flexed (imp. & p. p.) of Flex

Flexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flex

Flex (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Flex (n.) Flax.

Flexanimous (a.) Having power to change the mind.

Flexibility (n.) The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.

Flexible (a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

Flexible (a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

Flexible (a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

Flexicostate (a.) Having bent or curved ribs.

Flexile (a.) Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.

Flexion (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

Flexion (n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.

Flexion (n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.

Flexion (n.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

Flexor (n.) A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.

Flexuose (a.) Flexuous.

Flexuous (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures.

Flexuous (a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

Flexuous (a.) Wavering; not steady; flickering.

Flexural (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

Flexure (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.

Flexure (n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.

Flexure (n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.

Flexure (n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.

Flibbergib (n.) A sycophant.

Flibbertigibbet (n.) An imp.

Flibustier (n.) A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.

Flicked (imp. & p. p.) of Flick

Flicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flick

Flick (v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

Flick (n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

Flickered (imp. & p. p.) of Flicker

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