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<hw>Fly"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Flier</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One that uses wings.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The fly of a flag: See <er>Fly</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 6.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a <i>winder</i>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See <er>Fly</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 11.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.</def>

<i>Internat. Cyc.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Stock Jobbing)</fld> <def>A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Flyfish</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Fly"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A California scorp\'91noid fish (<spn>Sebastichthys rhodochloris</spn>), having brilliant colors.</def>

<h1>Fly-fish</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Fly"-fish</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To angle, using flies for bait.</def>

<i>Walton.</i>

<h1>Flying</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Fly"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Fly</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.</def>

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<cs><col>Flying army</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <cd>a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm.</cd> <i>Farrow.</i> --<col>Flying artillery</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Flying bridge</col>, <col>Flying camp</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Bridge</er>, and <er>Camp</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flying buttress</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch.</cd> -- <col>Flying colors</col>, <cd>flags unfurled and waving in the air</cd>; hence: <col>To come off with flying colors</col>, <cd>to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.</cd> -- <col>Flying doe</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a young female kangaroo.</cd> -- <col>Flying dragon</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Dragon</er>, 6.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A meteor. See under <er>Dragon</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flying Dutchman</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail the seas till the day of judgment.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A spectral ship.</cd> -- <col>Flying fish</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Flying fish</er>, in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Flying fox</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the colugo.</cd> -- <col>Flying frog</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an East Indian tree frog of the genus <spn>Rhacophorus</spn>, having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps.</cd> -- <col>Flying gurnard</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a species of gurnard of the genus <spn>Cephalacanthus</spn> or <spn>Dactylopterus</spn>, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance.</cd> <note>Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is <spn>Cephalacanthus volitans</spn>.</note> -- <col>Flying jib</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom.</cd> -- <col>Flying-jib boom</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>an extension of the jib boom.</cd> -- <col>Flying kites</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>light sails carried only in fine weather.</cd> -- <col>Flying lemur</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Colugo</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flying level</col> <fld>(Civil Engin.)</fld>, <cd>a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc.</cd> -- <col>Flying lizard</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Dragon</er>, <tt>n</tt>, 6.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Flying machine</col>, <cd>an apparatus for navigating the air; a form of balloon.</cd> -- <col>Flying mouse</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the opossum mouse (<spn>Acrobates pygm\'91us</spn>), of Australia.</cd> <note>It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels.</note> -- <col>Flying party</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy.</cd> -- <col>Flying phalanger</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera <spn>Petaurus</spn> and <spn>Belideus</spn>, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel (<spn>B. sciureus</spn>), and the ariel (<spn>B. ariel</spn>), are the best known; -- called also <altname>squirrel petaurus</altname> and <altname>flying squirrel</altname>. See <er>Sugar squirrel</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flying pinion</col>, <cd>the fly of a clock.</cd> -- <col>Flying sap</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth.</cd> -- <col>Flying shot</col>, <cd>a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing.</cd> -- <col>Flying spider</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Ballooning spider</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flying squid</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an oceanic squid (<spn>Ommastrephes, &or; Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii</spn>), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel.</cd> -- <col>Flying squirrel</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Flying squirrel</er>, in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Flying start</col>, <cd>a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way.</cd> -- <col>Flying torch</col></mcol> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flying fish</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fly"ing fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus <spn>Exoc\'d2tus</spn>, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.</def>

<h1>Flying squirrel</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fly"ing squir"rel</hw> <tt>(? or ?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of a group of squirrels, of the genera <spn>Pteromus</spn> and <spn>Sciuropterus</spn>, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.</def>

<note>&hand; The species of Pteromys are large, with bushy tails, and inhabit southern Asia and the East Indies; those of Sciuropterus are smaller, with flat tails, and inhabit the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. The American species <spn>(Sciuropterus volucella)</spn> is also called Assapan. The Australian flying squrrels, or flying phalangers, are marsupials. See <cref>Flying phalanger</cref> (above).</note>

<h1>Flyman</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fly"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flymen</plw> <tt>(-m?n)</tt>.</plu> <def>The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.</def>

<h1>Flysch</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Flysch</hw> <tt>(fl?sh)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[A Swiss word, fr. G. <ets>fliessen</ets> to flow, melt.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.</def>

<h1>Flyspeck</h1> <Xpage=577>