Part 4367

<hw>Flat"ter*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who flatters.</def>

<blockquote>The most abject <b>flaterers</b> degenerate into the greatest tyrants. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flattering</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"ter*ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); <as>as, a <ex>flattering</ex> speech</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Lay not that <b>flattering</b> unction to your soul. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A <b>flattering</b> painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flatteringly</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"ter*ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With flattery.</def>

<h1>Flattery</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"ter*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flatteries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>flaterie</ets>, OF. <ets>flaterie</ets>, F. <ets>flaterie</ets>, fr. <ets>flater</ets> to flatter, F. <ets>flatter</ets>; of uncertain origin. See <er>Flatter</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.</def>

<blockquote>Just praise is only a debt, but <b>flattery</b> is a present. <i>Rambler.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Flattery</b> corrupts both the receiver and the giver. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See <er>Adulation</er>.</syn>

<h1>Flatting</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.</def>

<i>Knolles.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.</def>

<cs><col>Flatting coat</col>, <cd>a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.</cd> -- <col>Flatting furnace</col>. <cd>Same as <i>Flattening oven<i>, under <er>Flatten</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flatting mill</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flattish</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"tish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Somewhat flat.</def>

<i>Woodward.</i>

<h1>Flatulence, Flatlency</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw><hw>Flat"u*lence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Flat"*len*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>flatulence</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state or quality of being flatulent.</def>

<h1>Flatulent</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"u*lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>flatus</ets> a blowing, <ets>flatus ventris</ets> windiness, flatulence, fr. <ets>flare</ets> to blow: cf. F. <ets>flatulent</ets>. See <er>Blow</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.</def>