Part 4400

<h1>Flocky</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flock"y</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Abounding with flocks; floccose.</def>

<h1>Floe</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Dan. <ets>flag</ets> af iis, iis<ets>flage</ets>, Sw. <ets>flaga</ets>, <ets>flake</ets>, is<ets>flaga</ets>, is<ets>flake</ets>. See <er>Flag</er> a flat stone.]</ety> <def>A low, flat mass of floating ice.</def>

<cs><col>Floe rat</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a seal (<spn>Phoca f\'d2tida</spn>).</cd></cs>

<h1>Flog</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flog</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flogged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flogging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. Scot. <ets>fleg</ets> blow, stroke, kick, AS. <ets>flocan</ets> to strike, or perh. fr. L. <ets>flagellare</ets> to whip. Cf. <er>Flagellate</er>.]</ety> <def>To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.</def>

<h1>Flogger</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flog"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who flogs.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Flogging</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flog"ging</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <def>from <er>Flog</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>

<cs><col>Flogging chisel</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings.</cd> -- <col>Flogging hammer</col>, <cd>a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flon</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flon</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>See <er>Flo</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Flong</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flong</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <mark>obs.</mark> <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Fling</er>.</def>

<h1>Flood</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>flod</ets> a flowing, stream, flood, AS. <ets>fl&omac;d</ets>; akin to D. <ets>vloed</ets>, OS. <ets>fl&omac;d</ets>, OHG. <ets>fluot</ets>, G. <ets>flut</ets>, Icel. <ets>fl&omac;&edh;</ets>, Sw. & Dan. <ets>flod</ets>, Goth. <ets>fl&omac;dus</ets>; from the root of E. <ets>flow</ets>. &root;80. See <er>Flow</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.</def>

<blockquote>A covenant never to destroy The earth again by <b>flood</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to <i>ebb</i>; <as>as, young <ex>flood</ex>; high <ex>flood</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the <b>flood</b>, leads on to fortune. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; <as>as, a <ex>flood</ex> of light</as>; a <ex>flood</ex> of lava</as>; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; <as>as, a <ex>flood</ex> of bank notes; a <ex>flood</ex> of paper currency.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Menstrual disharge; menses.</def>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<cs><col>Flood anchor</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>, the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.</cd> -- <col>Flood fence</col>, <cd>a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.</cd> -- <col>Flood gate</col>, <cd>a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.</cd> -- <col>Flood mark</col>, <cd>the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.</cd> -- <col>Flood tide</col>, <cd>the rising tide; -- opposed to <i>ebb tide<i>.</cd> -- <col>The Flood</col>, <cd>the deluge in the days of Noah.</cd></cs>