Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Floury

Flour″y (?), a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.

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Flout

Flout (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n.Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.] To mock or insult; to tr...

2325

Flout (2)

Flout, v. i. To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; — often with at.Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

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Flout (3)

Flout, n. A mock; an insult.Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.

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Flouter

Flout″er (?), n. One who flouts; a mocker.

2328

Floutingly

Flout″ing‐ly, adv. With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

2329

Flow

Flow (flō), obs.imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.Chaucer.

2330

Flow (2)

Flow (flō), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Flowed (flōd); p. pr. & vb. n.Flowing.] [AS. flōwan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. flōa to deluge, Gr. πλώειν to float, sail, an...

2331

Flow (3)

Flow, v. t. 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.2. To cover with varnish.

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Flow (4)

Flow, n. 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.3. Any gentle, ...

2333

Flowage

Flow″age (?; 48), n. An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

2334

Flowen

Flow″en (?), obs.imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.Chaucer.

2335

Flower

Flow″er (?), n. [OE. flour, OF. flour, flur, flor, F. fleur, fr. L. flos, floris. Cf. Blossom, Effloresce, Floret, Florid, Florin, Flour, Flourish.] 1. In the popular sense, the...

2336

Flower (2)

Flow″er (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Flowered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.] 1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flo...

2337

Flower (3)

Flow″er, v. t. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

2338

Flower State

Flow″er State. Florida; — a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

2339

Flower-de-luce

Flow″er–de–luce″ (?), n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, b...

2340

Flower-fence

Flow″er–fence′ (?), n.(Bot.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, orCæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; — so named from its having...

2341

Flower-gentle

Flow″er–gen′tle (?), n.(Bot.) A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

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Flowerage

Flow″er‐age (?; 48), n. State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

2343

Flowerer

Flow″er‐er (?), n. A plant which flowers or blossoms.Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

2344

Floweret

Flow″er‐et (?), n. A small flower; a floret. Shak.

2345

Flowerful

Flow″er‐ful (?), a. Abounding with flowers. Craig.

2346

Floweriness

Flow″er‐i‐ness (?), n. The state of being flowery.

2347

Flowering

Flow″er‐ing, a.(Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; — used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.Flowering fern, a g...

2348

Flowering (2)

Flow″er‐ing, n. 1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.2. The act of adorning with flowers.

2349

Flowerless

Flow″er‐less, a. Having no flowers.Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptogamous plants.