Part 4351

<h1>Flagrate</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla"grate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagrare</ets>, <ets>flagratum</ets>, v.i. & t., to burn.]</ety> <def>To burn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Greenhill.</i>

<h1>Flagration</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Fla*gra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A conflagration.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Flagship</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"ship`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.</def>

<h1>Flagstaff</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"staff`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>-staves</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt> or <plw>-staffs</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A staff on which a flag is hoisted.</def>

<h1>Flagstone</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See <er>Flag</er>, a stone.</def>

<h1>Flagworm</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flag"worm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.</def>

<h1>Flail</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flail</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flagellum</ets> whip, scourge, in LL., a threshing flail: cf. OF. <ets>flael</ets>, <ets>flaiel</ets>, F. <ets>fl\'82au</ets>. See <er>Flagellum</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.</def>

<blockquote>His shadowy <b>flail</b> hath threshed the corn. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.</def>

<i>Fairholt.</i>

<blockquote>No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small <b>flail</b>, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flaily</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flail"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Acting like a flail.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Vicars.</i>

<h1>Flain</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flain</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <mark>obs.</mark> <def><tt>p. p.</tt> of <er>Flay</er>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Flake</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>flaki</ets>, <ets>fleki</ets>, Dan. <ets>flage</ets>, D. <ets>vlaak</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A paling; a hurdle.</def> <mark>[prov. Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.</def>