FLOWING
FLOWING, participle present tense Moving as a fluid; issuing; proceeding; abounding; smooth, as style; inundating.FLOWING, noun The act of running or moving as a fluid; an issui...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FLOWINGLY
FLOWINGLY, adverb With volubility; with abundance.
FLOWINGNESS
FLOWINGNESS, noun Smoothness of diction; stream of diction.
FLOWK
FLOWK,FLOWN, had fled, in the following phrases, is not good English.Was reason flown.Sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.In the former passage, flown is used as the p...
FLOWN
FLOWN, had fled, in the following phrases, is not good English.Was reason flown.Sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.In the former passage, flown is used as the partici...
FLUATE
FLU'ATE, noun [from fluro, which see.] In chimistry, a salt formed by the fluoric acid combined with a base; as fluate of alumin, or of soda.
FLUCTUANT
FLUC'TUANT, adjective [Latin fluctuans. See Fluctuate.] Moving like a wave; wavering; unsteady.
FLUCTUATE
FLUC'TUATE, verb intransitive [Latin fluctuo, from fluctus, a wave, from fluo, to flow.]1. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; as a fluctuating field of air....
FLUCTUATING
FLUC'TUATING, participle present tense1. Wavering; rolling as a wave; moving in this and that direction; rising and falling.2.adjective Unsteady; wavering; changeable. We have l...
FLUCTUATION
FLUCTUA'TION, noun [Latin fluctuatio.]1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as the fluctuations of the sea.2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as fluctua...
FLUDDER
FLUD'DER, noun An aquatic fowl of the diver kind, nearly as large as a goose.
FLUDER
FLUD'ER,FLUE, noun [probably contracted from flume, Latin flumen, from fluo.]A passage for smoke in a chimney, leading from the fireplace to the top of the chinmey, or into anot...
FLUE
FLUE, n. [probably contracted from flume, L. flumen, from fluo.]A passage for smoke in a chimney, leading from the fireplace to the top of the chinmey, or into another passage; ...
FLUELLEN
FLUEL'LEN, noun The female speedwell, a plant of the genus Antirrhinum, or snapdragon.
FLUENCE
FLUENCE, for fluency, is not used.
FLUENCY
FLU'ENCY, noun [Latin fluens, from flue, to flow.]1. The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers.2. Readines...
FLUENT
FLU'ENT, adjective [See Fluency.1. Liquid; flowing.2. Flowing; passing.Motion being a fluent thing.3. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command and ut...
FLUENTLY
FLU'ENTLY, adverb With ready flow; volubly; without hesitation or obstruction; as, to speak fluently
FLUGELMAN
FLU'GELMAN, nounIn German, the leader of a file. But with us, a soldier who stands on the wing of a body of men, and marks time for the motions.
FLUID
FLU'ID, adjective [Latin fluidus, from fluo, to flow.] Having parts which easily move and change their relative position without separation, and which easily yield to pressure; ...
FLUIDITY
FLUID'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of flowing; that quality of bodies which renders them impressible to the slightest force, and by which the parts easily move or chan...
FLUIDNESS
FLU'IDNESS, noun The state of being fluid; fluidity, which see.FLUKE, nounThe part of an anchor which fastens in the ground.FLUKE,FLOWK, noun A flounder.
FLUKE
FLUKE, noun A flounder.
FLUKE-WORM
FLU'KE-WORM, noun The guard-worm, a species of Fasciola.
FLUME
FLUME, noun [Latin flumen, from fluo, to flow.]Literally, a flowing; hence, the passage or channel for the water that drives a mill-wheel.
FLUMINATING
FLU'MINATING, participle present tense1. Thundering; crackling; exploding; detonating.2. Hurling papal denunciations, menaces or censures.Fulminating powder, a detonating compou...
FLUMMERY
FLUM'MERY, noun [See Lumber.]1. A sort of jelly made of flour or meal; pap.Milk and flummery are very fit for children.2. In vulgar use, any thing insipid or nothing to the purp...