Part 4352

<blockquote>You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or <b>flakes</b> of wands, and they will last the longer. <i>English Husbandman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.</def>

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

<hw>Flake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>flakna</ets> to flake off, split, <ets>flagna</ets> to flake off, Sw. <ets>flaga</ets> flaw, flake, <ets>flake</ets> plate, Dan. <ets>flage</ets> snowflake. Cf. <er>Flag</er> a flat stone.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; <as>as, a <ex>flake</ex> of snow, tallow, or fish</as>.</def> "Lottle <i>flakes</i> of scurf."

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>Great <b>flakes</b> of ice encompassing our boat. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.</def>

<blockquote>With <b>flakes</b> of ruddy fire. <i>Somerville.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.</def> <-- 4. a flaky{2} person -->

<cs><col>Flake knife</col> <fld>(Arch\'91ol.)</fld>, <cd>a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.</cd> <i>Tylor.</i> -- <col>Flake stand</col>, <cd>the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Flake white</col>. <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>The trisnitrate of bismuth.</cd> <i>Ure.</i></cs>

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

<hw>Flake</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flaked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flaking</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To form into flakes.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

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

<hw>Flake</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.</def>

<h1>Flakiness</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flak"i*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being flaky.</def>

<h1>Flaky</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flak"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.</def> <--2. (of persons) = prone to strange behavior; (of actions) odd or unconventional = offbeat, whacky -->

<blockquote>What showers of mortal hail, what <b>flaky</b> fires! <i>Watts.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A <b>flaky</b> weight of winter's purest snows. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flam</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flam</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. AS. <er>fle\'a0m</er>, <er>fl<?/m</er>, floght. &root; 84 . Cf. <er>Flimflam</er>.]</ety> <def>A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A perpetual abuse and <b>flam</b> upon posterity. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flam</h1> <Xpage=566>

<hw>Flam</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flammed</er> ; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flamming</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To deceive with a falsehood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>God is not to be <b>flammed</b> off with lies. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flambeau</h1> <Xpage=566>