FLINTHEART
FLINT'HEART,FLINT'HEARTED, adjective Having a hard, unfeeling heart.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FLINTHEARTED
FLINT'HEARTED, a. Having a hard, unfeeling heart.
FLINTY
FLINT'Y, adjective1. Consisting of flint; as a flinty rock.2. Like flint; very hard, not impressible; as a flinty heart.3. Cruel; unmerciful; inexorable.4. Full of flint stones,...
FLIP
FLIP, noun A mixed liquor consisting of beer and spirit sweetened.
FLIPDOG
FLIP'DOG, noun An iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
FLIPPANCY
FLIP'PANCY, noun [See Flippant.] Smoothness and rapidity of speech; volubility of tongue; fluency of speech.
FLIPPANT
FLIP'PANT, adjective [Latin labor, to slide or slip, and to liber, free.]1. Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talka...
FLIPPANTLY
FLIP'PANTLY, adverb Fluently; with ease and volubility of speech.
FLIPPANTNESS
FLIP'PANTNESS, noun fluency of speech; volubility of tongue; flippancy.[This is not a low, vulgar word, but well authorized and peculiarly expressive.]
FLIRT
FLIRT, verb transitive flurt. [This word evidently belongs to the root of Latin floreo, or ploro, signifying to throw, and coinciding with blurt.]1. To throw with a jerk or sudd...
FLIRTATION
FLIRTA'TION, noun1. A flirting; a quick sprightly motion.2. Desire of attracting notice. [A cant word.]
FLIRTED
FLIRT'ED, participle passive Thrown with a sudden jerk.
FLIRTING
FLIRT'ING, participle present tense Throwing; jerking; tossing; darting about; rambling and changing place hastily.
FLIT
FLIT, verb intransitive [Heb. It is undoubtedly from the same root as fleet, which see.]1. To fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to move with celerity through the air....
FLITCH
FLITCH, nounThe side of a hog salted and cured.
FLITTER
FLIT'TER, verb intransitive To flutter, which see.FLIT'TER, noun A rag; a tatter. [See Fritter.]
FLITTERMOUSE
FLIT'TERMOUSE, noun [Flit, flitter and mouse.]A bat; an animal that has the fur of a mouse, and membranes which answer the purpose of wings, and enable the animal to sustain its...
FLITTINESS
FLIT'TINESS, noun [from flit.] Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
FLITTING
FLIT'TING, participle present tense Flying rapidly; fluttering; moving swiftly.FLIT'TING, noun A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
FLITTY
FLIT'TY, adjective Unstable; fluttering.
FLIX
FLIX, noun Down; fur. [Not used.]
FLIXWEED
FLIX'WEED, noun The Sisymbrium sophia, a species of water-cresses, growing on walls and waste grounds.
FLO
FLO, noun An arrow. [Not in use.]
FLOAT
FLOAT, noun1. That which swims or is borne on water; as a float of weeds and rushes. But particularly, a body or collection of timber, boards or planks fastened together and con...
FLOAT-BOARD
FLO'AT-BOARD, noun A board of the water-wheel of undershot mills, which receives the impulse of the stream, by which the wheel is driven.
FLOATAGE
FLO'ATAGE, noun Any thing that floats on the water.
FLOATED
FLO'ATED, participle passive1. Flooded; overflowed.2. Borne on water.