Part 4411

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of word<?/ and figures; show; <as>as, a <ex>flourish</ex> of rhetoric or of wit</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He lards with <b>flourishes</b> his long harangue. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.</def>

<blockquote>The neat characters and <b>flourishes</b> of a Bible curiously printed. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>flourish</b>, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; <as>as, the <ex>fluorish</ex> of a sword</as>.</def>

<h1>Flourisher</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flour"ish*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who flourishes.</def>

<h1>Flourishingly</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flour"ish*ing*ly</hw><def>, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.</def>

<h1>Floury</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flour"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.</def>

<i>Dickens.</i>

<h1>Flout</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flout</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flouted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flouting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OD. <ets>fluyten</ets> to play the flute, to jeer, D. <ets>fluiten</ets>, fr. <ets>fluit</ets>, fr. French. See <er>Flute</er>.]</ety> <def>To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.</def>

<blockquote>Phillida <b>flouts</b> me. <i>Walton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Three gaudy standarts <b>lout</b> the pale blue sky. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flout</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flout</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with <i>at</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Fleer and gibe, and laugh and <b>flout</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flout</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flout</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A mock; an insult.</def>

<blockquote>Who put your beauty to this <b>flout</b> and scorn. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flouter</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flout"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who flouts; a mocker.</def>

<h1>Floutingly</h1> <Xpage=573>

<hw>Flout"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With flouting; insultingly; <as>as, to treat a lover <ex>floutingly</ex></as>.</def>