Part 4402

<cs><col>Floor cloth</col>, <cd>a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth.</cd> -- <col>Floor cramp</col>, <cd>an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position.</cd> -- <col>Floor light</col>, <cd>a frame with glass panes in a floor.</cd> -- <col>Floor plan</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Shipbuilding)</fld> <cd>A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <cd>A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.</cd></cs>

<h1>Floor</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Floored</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flooring</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; <as>as, to <ex>floor</ex> a house with pine boards</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; <as>as, to <ex>floor</ex> an opponent</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Floored</b> or crushed by him. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To finish or make an end of; <as>as, to <ex>floor</ex> a college examination</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>I've <b>floored</b> my little-go work. <i>T. Hughes.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Floorage</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Floor space.</def>

<h1>Floorer</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Floorheads</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"heads`</hw>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.</def>

<h1>Flooring</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See <er>Floor</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Material for the construction of a floor or floors.</def>

<h1>Floorless</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no floor.</def>

<h1>Floorwalker</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor"walk`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Flop</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flopped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flopping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[A variant of <ets>flap</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Fielding.</i>

<h1>Flop</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; <as>as, the brim of a hat <ex>flops</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>