Part 4368

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.</def>

<blockquote>Vegetables abound more with a\'89rial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more <b>flatulent</b>. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Turgid with flatus; <as>as, a <ex>flatulent</ex> tumor</as>.</def>

<i>Quincy.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; <as>as, a <ex>flatulent</ex> vanity</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He is too <b>flatulent</b> sometimes, and sometimes too dry. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flatulently</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"u*lent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.</def>

<h1>Flatuosity</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat`u*os"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>flatuosit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>Flatulence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Flatuous</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"u*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>flatueux</ets>.]</ety> <def>Windy; generating wind.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Flatus</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Fla"tus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Flatuses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Flatus</plw></plu>. <ety>[L., fr. <ets>flare</ets> to blow.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A breath; a puff of wind.</def>

<i>Clarke.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.</def>

<i>Quincy.</i>

<h1>Flatwise</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"wise`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. &or; adv.</tt> <def>With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.</def>

<h1>Flatworm</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flat"worm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.</def>

<h1>Flaundrish</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flaun"drish</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Flemish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Flaunt</h1> <Xpage=568>

<hw>Flaunt</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flaunted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt>. <er>Flaunting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. dial. G. <ets>flandern</ets> to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. <ets>flatter</ets>, <ets>flutter</ets>.]</ety> <def>To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; <as>as, a <ex>flaunting</ex> show</as>.</def>

<blockquote>You <b>flaunt</b> about the streets in your new gilt chariot. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>