FLAGITIOUSNESS
FLAGI'TIOUSNESS, noun Extreme wickedness; villainy.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FLAGON
FLAG'ON, noun [Latin lagena; Gr.]A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors.Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.
FLAGRANCY
FLA'GRANCY, noun [See Flagrant.]1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. obsoleteLust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.2. Excess; enormity; as the flagrancy of a crime.
FLAGRANT
FLA'GRANT, adjective [Latin flagrans, from flagro, to burn; Gr.]1. Burning; ardent; eager; as flagrant desires.2. Glowing; red; flushed.See Sapho, at her toilet's greasy task,Th...
FLAGRANTLY
FLA'GRANTLY, adverb Ardently; notoriously.
FLAGRATE
FLA'GRATE, verb transitive To burn. [Little used.]
FLAGRATION
FLAGRA'TION, noun A burning. [Little used.]
FLAGSTONE
FLAG'STONE, noun A flat stone for pavement.
FLAGWORM
FLAG'WORM, noun A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
FLAIL
FLA'IL, noun [Latin flagellum. We retain the original verb in flog, to strike, to lay on, Latin fligo, whence affligo, to afflict; plaga, a stroke, or perhaps from the same root...
FLAKE
FLAKE, noun [Latin floccus; Gr. flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with Latin plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a cr...
FLAKE-WHITE
FLAKE-WHITE, noun Oxyd of bismuth.
FLAKY
FLA'KY, adjective1. Consisting of flakes or locks; consisting of small loose masses.2. Lying in flakes; consisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers.
FLAM
FLAM, noun A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.Lies immortalized and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity....
FLAMBEAU
FLAM'BEAU, noun flam'bo. [Latin flamma, flame.]A light or luminary made of thick wicks covered with wax, and used in the streets at night, at illuminations, and in processions. ...
FLAME
FLAME, noun [Latin flamma.]1. A blaze; burning vapor; vapor in combustion; or according to modern chimistry, hydrogen or any inflammable gas, in a state of combustion, and natur...
FLAMECOLOR
FLA'MECOLOR, noun Bright color, as that of flame.
FLAMECOLORED
FLA'MECOLORED, adjective Of the color of flame; of a bright yellow color.
FLAMEEYED
FLA'MEEYED, adjective Having eyes like a flame.
FLAMELESS
FLA'MELESS, adjective Destitute of flame; without incense.
FLAMEN
FLA'MEN, noun [Latin]1. In ancient Rome, a priest. Originally there were three priests so called; the flamen Dialis, consecrated to Jupiter; flamen Martialis, sacred to Mars; an...
FLAMING
FLA'MING, participle present tense1. Burning in flame.2.adjective Bright; red. Also, violent; vehement; as a flaming harangue.FLA'MING, noun A bursting out in a flame.
FLAMINGLY
FLA'MINGLY, adverb Most brightly; with great show or vehemence.
FLAMINGO
FLAMIN'GO, nounA fowl constituting the genus Phoenicopterus, of the grallic order. The beak is naked, toothed, and bent as if broken; the feet palmated and four-toed. This fowl ...
FLAMINICAL
FLAMIN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a Roman flamen.
FLAMMABILITY
FLAMMABIL'ITY, noun The quality of admitting to be set on fire, or enkindled into a flame or blaze; inflammability.
FLAMMABLE
FLAM'MABLE, adjective Capable of being enkindled into flame.