FLEXIBILITY
FLEXIBIL'ITY, noun [See Flexible.]1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light.2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of ...
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FLEXIBLE
FLEX'IBLE, adjective [Latin flexibilis, from flecto, flexi, to bend, plico.]1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking;...
FLEXIBLENESS
FLEX'IBLENESS, noun1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.2. Facility of mind; ...
FLEXILE
FLEX'ILE, adjective [Latin flexilis.] Pliant; pliable; easily bent; yielding to power, impulse or moral force.
FLEXION
FLEX'ION, noun [Latin flexio.]1. The act of bending.2. A bending; a part bent; a fold.3. A turn; a cast; as a flexion of the eye.
FLEXOR
FLEX'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle whose office is to bend the part to which it belongs, in opposition to the extensors.
FLEXUOUS
FLEX'UOUS, adjective [Latin flexuosus.]1. Winding; having turns or windings; as a flexuous rivulet.2. Bending; winding; wavering; not steady; as a flexuous flame.3. In botany, b...
FLEXURE
FLEX'URE, noun [Latin flexura.]1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.2. The act of bending.3. The part bent; a joint.4. The bending of the body...
FLICKER
FLICK'ER, verb intransitive1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying; to strike rapidly with the wings.And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.2. To fluctuate.
FLICKERING
FLICK'ERING, participle present tense1. Fluttering; flapping the wings without flight.2.adjective With amorous motions of the eye.The fair Lavinia - looks a little flickering af...
FLICKERMOUSE
FLICK'ERMOUSE, noun The bat.
FLIER
FLI'ER, noun [See Fly. It ought to be flyer.]1. One that flies or flees.2. A runaway; a fugitive.3. A part of a machine which, by moving rapidly, equalizes and regulates the mot...
FLIGHT
FLIGHT, noun [See Fly.]1. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.Pray ye that your flight be not in winter. Matthew 24:2...
FLIGHT-SHOT
FLIGHT-SHOT, noun The distance which an arrow flies.
FLIGHTNESS
FLIGHTNESS, noun The state of being flighty; wildness; slight delirium.
FLIGHTY
FLIGHTY, adjective1. Fleeting; swift.The flighty purpose never is o'ertook.2. Wild; indulging the sallies of imagination.3. Disordered in mind; somewhat delirious.
FLIMFLAM
FLIM'FLAM, noun A freak; a trick.
FLIMSINESS
FLIM'SINESS, noun State or quality of being flimsy; thin, weak texture; weakness; want of substance or solidity.
FLIMSY
FLIM'SY, adjective s as z. [The word is retained by the common people in New England in limsy, weak, limber, easily bending.]1. Weak; feeble; slight; vain; without strength or s...
FLINCH
FLINCH, verb intransitive [I have not found this word in any other language; but the sense of it occurs in blench, and not improbably it is from the same root, with a different ...
FLINCHER
FLINCH'ER, noun One who flinches or fails.
FLINCHING
FLINCH'ING, participle present tense Failing to undertake, perform or proceed; shrinking; withdrawing.
FLINDER
FLIN'DER, noun A small piece or splinter; a fragment.[This seems to be splinter, without the prefix.]
FLING
FLING, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive flung. [Latin lego legare.]1. To cast, send or throw from the hand; to hurl; as, to fling a stone at a bird.Tis fate ...
FLINGER
FLING'ER, noun One who flings; one who jeers.
FLINGING
FLING'ING, participle present tense Throwing; casting; jeering.
FLINT
FLINT, noun1. In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color. It is amorphous, interspersed in other stones, or in nodules or...