Part 4398

<cs><col>Flobert rifle</col>, <cd>a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.</cd></cs>

<h1>Floccillation</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc`cil*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>floccus</ets> a flock of wool. Cf. <er>Flock</er> of wool.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<h1>Floc/cose</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc/cose"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>floccosus</ets>. Cf. 2d <er>Flock</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Spotted with small tufts like wool.</def>

<i>Wright.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.</def>

<h1>Floccular</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the flocculus.</def>

<h1>Flocculate</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flocculated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flocculating</er>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>To aggregate into small lumps.</def>

<h1>Flocculate</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.</def>

<h1>Flocculation</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc`cu*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.</def>

<h1>Flocculence</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*lence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being flocculent.</def>

<h1>Flocculent</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Flock</er> of wool.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.</def>

<h1>Flocculus</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cu*lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flocculi</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., dim. of L. <ets>floccus</ets> a lock or flock of wool.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.</def>

<h1>Floccus</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floc"cus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flocci</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., a flock of wool.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.</def>

<h1>Flock</h1> <Xpage=572>