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<p><b>4.</b> <def>A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Flash light</col>, &or; <col>Flashing light</col></mcol>, <cd>a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Flash in the pan</col>, <cd>the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Flash</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; <as>as, <ex>flash</ex> jewelry; <ex>flash</ex> finery.</as></def> <-- different from flashy? Not much used late 1900's. Perh. because of sense 2? -->

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; <as>as, <ex>flash</ex> people; <ex>flash</ex> men or women</as>; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.</def>

<cs><col>Flash house</col>, <cd>a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a <i>flash house<i>."</cd>

<i>Macaulay.</i> </cs>

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<hw>Flash</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.</def>

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<hw>Flash</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>flasche</ets>, <ets>flaske</ets>; cf. OF. <ets>flache</ets>, F. <ets>flaque</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A pool.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Haliwell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Engineering)</fld> <def>A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.</def>

<cs><col>Flash wheel</col> <fld>(Mech.)</fld>, <cd>a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Flash"board`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

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<hw>Flash"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, flashes.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A man of more appearance of wit than reality.</def> <-- 3. an exhibitionist -->

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (<spn>Lobotes Surinamensis</spn>).</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The European red-backed shrile (<spn>Lanius collurio</spn>); -- called also <altname>flusher</altname>.</def>

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<hw>Flash"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a flashy manner; with empty show.</def>

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<hw>Flash"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being flashy.</def>

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<hw>Flash"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Engineering)</fld> <def>The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also <altname>flushing</altname>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. <er>Filleting</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Glass Making)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.</def>