Part 4358

<blockquote>Yet let me <b>flap</b> this bug with gilded wings. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move, as something broad and flaplike; <as>as, to <ex>flap</ex> the wings</as>; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.</def>

<cs><col>To flap in the mouth</col>, <cd>to taunt.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cs>

<i>W. Cartwright.</i>

<h1>Flap</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.</def>

<blockquote>The crows <b>flapped</b> over by twos and threes. <i>Lowell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.</def>

<i>Gay.</i>

<h1>Flapdragon</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap"drag`on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The thing thus caught abd eaten.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<blockquote>Cakes and ale, and <b>flapdragtons</b> and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flapdragon</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap"drag`on</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>See how the sea <b>flapdragoned</b> it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flap-eared</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap"-eared`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having broad, loose, dependent ears.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Flapjack</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap"jack`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Flap-mouthed</h1> <Xpage=567>

<hw>Flap"-mouthed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having broad, hangling lips.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

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