flagon 
All vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, 
even to all the vessels of jhvions. Ian. xxii. 24. 
A pestilence on him fora mad rogue! a poured a jln : iii 
of Klu-ni.-'h "ii my head once. Shale., Iliiinln. \. i. 
When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers :it n<>< m- 
tide 
Flagon* of home-brewed ale, ah, fair In sooth was the 
maiden. /.;i'/'W/<i/r. K\ ;muclme, i. 1. 
flagonet (flag'on-et), n. [< fluijon + *et.] A 
little flagon. [Rare.] 
And in a beiaUhtJIaffotut stood by 
Beere small as comfort, dead as charity. 
Herrick, Hesperitles, p. 281. 
flagpole (flag'pol), . Same as flagstaff. 
"There were four one-story wooden barracks once," 
said Rod ; " whitewashed ; flan-pole in the centre. There's 
nothing now but a chimney." 
Harper's May., LXXVII. 847. 
flagra, . Plural otflagrum. 
flagrancet (fla'grans), n. [< OF.flagrance, F. 
fltigraiii't: = Sp. "flagrancia, < L. flagrantia, a 
burning, vehement desire, <. flag ran (t-)s, burn- 
ing: see flagrant."] An obsolete form of fla- 
grancy. 
They bring to him a woman taken in the flagrance of 
her adultery. Bp. Hall, The Woman Taken in Adultery. 
flagrancy (fla'gran-si), n. [As flagrance : see 
-ancij.] If. Burning; inflammation; heat. 
Lust causeth ^flagrancy in the eyes. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 722. 
2. The quality of being flagrant ; heinousness ; 
atrocity. 
flagrant (fla'grant), a. [< OF. flagrant. F. fla- 
grant = Sp. flagrante = Pg. flagrante, fragaiite 
= It. flagrante, < L. flagran(t-)s, burning, ppr. 
of flagrare, burn, ^*flag = Gr. faeyeiv, burn, = 
Skt. -^ bhrdj, shine brightly, prob. akin to AS. 
beorht, E. bright, etc. : see brigh ft, and of. flame, 
phlegm, phlox, fulgent, etc., from the same ult. 
root. Cf. conflagrant, etc.] 1 . Burning ; blaz- 
ing; hence, shining; glorious. 
Hayle, fulgent Phebus and fader eternall ! . . . 
OJtagraunt fader ! graunte yt myght so be ! 
York Plays, p. 515. 
See Sappho, at her toilet's greasy task, 
Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask. 
Pope, Moral Essays, ii. 26 (early ed.). 
Hence 2. Ardent; eager. 
A thing which filleth the mind with comfort and heaven- 
ly delight, stirreth up flagrant desires and affections, cor- 
respondent unto that which the words contain. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Ceesar's was not a smothered, but a flagrant, ambition, 
kindling first by nature, and blown by necessity. 
Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiae, p. 242. 
He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal 
To serve his country. Cowper, Task, iii. 794. 
3. Raging; inaction; actually in progress. 
A war with the most powerful of the native tribes was 
flagrant. Palfrey. 
4. Glaring; notorious; scandalous: as, a fla- 
grant crime: rarely used of persons. 
This was undoubtedly an instance of the most flagrant 
licentiousness. Goldsmith, Origin of Poetry. 
A score 
Of flagrant felons, with his floggings sore. 
Crabbe, Works, IV. 106. 
Has he no reproof, no word of censure, for such a fla- 
grant violation of the law ? 
Z>. Webster, Speech, Senate, June 27, 1834. 
[Now obsolete or rare in all senses but the 
last.] 
= Syn. 4. Wicked, Heinous, etc. See atrocious. 
flagrante bello (fla-gran'te bel'6). [L., lit. 
the war being flagrant, that is, raging: fla- 
grante, abl. (agreeing with the noun) of fla- 
gran(t-)s, flagrant (see flagrant, 3); bello, abl. 
abs. of bellum, war: see bellicose.] While the 
war is (or was) raging; during hostilities. 
flagrante delicto (fla-gran'te de-lik'to). [L., 
lit. the crime being flagrant, that is, actually 
in performance : flagrante, abl. (agreeing with 
the noun) of flagran( t-)s, flagrant (see flagrant, 
3) ; delicto, abl. abs. of delictum, crime : see 
delict.] While the crime is (or was) being com- 
mitted ; while the crime is (or was) in the very 
performance : as, he was apprehended/o</rate 
delicto. 
flagrantly (fla/ grant -li), adv. In a flagrant 
manner; glaringly"; notoriously. 
The mysteries of Bacchus were well chosen for an ex- 
ample of corrupted rites, and of the mischiefs they pro- 
duced ; for they were early and flagrantly corrupted. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, ii. 4. 
flagrantness (fla' grant -nes), n. Flagrancy. 
litiiley, 1727. 
flagratet (fla'grat), v. t. [< L. flagratvs, pp. of 
flagrare (> It. flngrare = Sp. flagrar), burn: 
see flagrant.] To burn. 
2249 
To represent bow Typhon's destructive and flagrating 
power, lying hid in the sun, was made more temperate. 
Greenhill, Art of Embalming, p. 336. 
flagrationt (fla-gra'shon), n. [< L. as if *fla- 
' n-), < jtagrare, pp. flagratun, burn: see 
Cf. conflagration.] A conflagration. 
We numbed feared noflagralinn. 
Lovelace, Fletcher's Wildgoose Chase. 
flag-root (flag'rot), n. The root of the sweet- 
flag. See flag 3 . 
flagrum (fl'a'grum), n.; pi. flagra (-grii). [L., 
a scourge: see flagellum, flail.] 1. In Rom. an- 
tiq., a scourge. See flagellum. 2. In zool., a 
part of the jaw-feet of some crustaceans. 
They have neither flaqrmn nor palp. 
Eng. Cyc., Nat. Hist. (1865), III. 86. 
flag-share (flag'shar), n. The share of the com- 
mander-in-chief in all captures made by vessels 
within the limits of his command. 
flag-ship (flag'ship), . The ship which bears 
the flag-officer of a squadron or fleet, and on 
which his flag is displayed. 
flag-side (flag'sld), . That side of a split had- 
dock which is free from bone. [Scotch.] 
flagstaff (flag'staf), ra. A pole or staff on which 
a flag is displayed. 
flag-station (flag'sta/shon), . A railroad-sta- 
tion where trains stop only when a signal is dis- 
played. [U. S.] 
flagstone (flag'ston), n. 1. A grit or sandstone 
naturally separating in layers of suitable thick- 
ness for flagging ; any rock which splits or is 
capable of being readily split into tabularplates 
or flags. Usually the layers are parallel to the bedding 
or stratification of the rock ; but there are cases in which 
the lamination of the material available for flagging is the 
result of cleavage or jointing. 
Flag-stonev<tt\ notsplit, asslatedoes,beingfoundformed 
into flags, or thin plates, which are no other than so many 
strata. Woodward, Fossils. 
2. A flat stone used in paving, 
flagworm(flag'werm), n. A worm or grub found 
among flags and sedge. 
He will in the three hot months bite at &flagworm, or 
a green gentle. /. Walton. 
flaid (flad). Same as flayed, past participle of 
flaift. [Prov. Eng.] 
flaik (flak), . See flaked 
flail (flal), n. [< ME. flaile, flayle, flei/l, flegl, a 
flail (in part, as in the form flael, from the OF. 
flael; in part, as the guttural in the earliest 
form shows, of AS. origin), < AS. *flegel (not re- 
corded) = MD. vleghel, D. vlegel = LG. flegcr 
= OHG. flegil, MHG. vlegel, G. flegel = OF. 
flael, flaiel, F. fleau = Pr. flagel, flachel = Sp. 
flagelo = Pg. It. flagello, a flail, < L. flagel- 
lum, a whip, scourge, LL. a flail: see flagellum, 
flagellate 1 .] 1. An instrument for threshing or 
beating grain from the ear, consisting of the 
hand-staff, which is held in the hand, the swin- 
gle or swiple, which strikes the grain, and the 
middle band, which connects the hand-staff and 
swingle, and may be a thong of leather or a rope 
of hemp or straw. 
Our soldiers' [weapons] like the night-owl's lazy night, 
Or like a lazy thresher with & flail 
Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends. 
Shcric., S Hen. VI., li. 1. 
In one night, ere glimpse of morn, 
His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn 
That ten day-labourers could not end. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 108. 
2. Milit., a similar implement used as a wea- 
pon of war in the middle ages. In this weapon the 
swingle or swiple was sometimes a ball set with long 
spikes, and sometimes a pear-shaped or still more elon- 
gated body spiked in like manner (in these forms called 
morning-star : see cut under morning-star) ; the middle 
band was a chain ; and the hand-staff was of metal in the 
smaller single-handed flails, or of wood with long tangs 
and ferrules of metal in the larger forms. 
A fauchon of stele went he unto take, 
Well grounde or whet, but tendre was It noght ; 
After flaelles thre of yre toke for hys sake. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 2999. 
flail (flal), v. t. [< ME. flaylen (cf. OF. flaie- 
ler, flaeler, later flageller', < L. flagellare, whip, 
scourge: see flagelle, flagellate 1 , v.); from the 
noun.] If. To whip ; scourge. 
They him nayled and yl flayled, 
Alas, that innocent ! 
Songs and Carols (ed. Wright), p. 72. 
2. To strike with or as if with a flail; thresh. 
And in an od corner for Mars they be sternfulye flayling 
Hudge spoaks and chariots. Stanihurst, Conceites, p. 138. 
It is nothing to get wet ; but the misery of these indi- 
vidual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant 
of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a 
madman. R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 186. 
flail-stone (flal'ston), n. A stone implement 
found among paleolithic remains, thought to 
flake 
be the swingle or striking part of the military 
flail. See war-flail and morning-star. 
flailyt, a. [< flail + -yl.] Like a flail. 
At once all furrows plow, the strugling streams 
i) iv all the inaine gape wide, boile foamie streams, 
With rfn/i/-oares and slicing fort-decks fierce, 
Whic-h through the bustling billows proudly pierce. 
Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). 
flaint. An obsolete past participle of flay 1 . 
I'litmcer. 
flair 1 t, " An obsolete spelling of flare. 
flair' 2 (flar), n. [ME. flayre, odor, < OF. flair, 
odor, F. flair, scent (in hunting), = C&t.flaira, 
t., = Pg. cheiro, m., odor, < OF.flairer, emit an 
odor, F. flairer, tr., scent, smell, fleurer, intr., 
smell (in form confused with fleur, a flower), 
= Pr. flairar = Cat. flairar = Pg. cheirar, < L. 
fragrare, intr., emit an odor, whence E. fra- 
grant, q. v.] If. Odor; smell. 
Alle swete savours, that men may fele, 
Of alkyn thing that here savours wele, 
War noght hot as stynk in regard of that flayre 
That es in the cete [city] of heven so fayre. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 9017. 
2. [Mod. F. use.] In hunting, scent ; sense of 
smell : used figuratively in the extract. 
In addition to the industry and accuracy which are in- 
dispensable to an editor, he has keen poetical appreciation 
and insight, and A flair which always leads him right. 
N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 99. 
flair 3 , flaire (flar), n. [< OF. flair, a sort of fish. 
Cf.fireflare.] 1. The skate, Raiabatis. [Scotch 
(Aberdeen).] 2. Same as fiery-flare. 
flake 1 (flak), n. [< ME. flake, a flake (of snow, 
etc.), of Scand. origin: < Norw. flal; a slice, 
a piece, as of ice, torn off, an ice-floe, = Sw. 
dial, flag, flak, a thin slice, Sw. flaga, a flake, 
flaw, crack, = Dan. flage, flake (sneflage, snow- 
flake) ; cf. Icel. flagna, flake off, split, = Norw. 
Sw.flagna, peel off: see flag*, flaw 1 , flay 1 .] 1. 
A small flat or scale-like particle or fragment 
of anything; a thin fragment; a scale: as, a 
flake of tallow ; a flake of flint ; a flake of snow. 
As applied to ehips or fragments detached from a mass of 
rock or mineral, flake often refers especially to such chips 
or fragments produced in the process of making stone 
weapons, especially in prehistoric times. Flint and obsid- 
ian are the materials which, in consequence of their char- 
acteristically conchoidal fracture, can most readily be 
made to take a desired form by chipping or flaking ; but 
when these were not to be had, chert, jasper, quartz, and 
even rocks of various kinds, have been utilized in this 
way. There are many localities where these chips or flakes 
(as the larger and more regular chips are sometimes des- 
ignated), cores, broken tools, stone hammers, and other 
similar relics, are found heaped together in large quanti- 
ties, indicating the abandoned sites of workshops. 
The flakes of his flesh are joined together ; they are firm 
in themselves. Job xli. 23. 
The businesses of men depend upon these little long 
fleaks or threads of hemp and flax. 
Dr. H. More, Antidote against Atheism. 
Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evdyn. 
Upon throwing in a stone the water boils for a consid- 
erable time, and at the same time are seen little flakes of 
scurf rising up. Addison, Travels in Italy. 
In starry flake, and pellicle, 
All day the hoary meteor [snow] fell. 
Whittier, Snow-Bound. 
2. Among florists, any variety of carnation in 
which the petals are marked with stripes of 
one color upon a white ground. 
So early as 1769 we find that the Carnation was divided 
into four classes. . . . The Flakes were those having two 
colours only, the stripes going the whole length of the 
petals. W. Robinson, English Flower Garden, p. 108. 
flake 1 (flak), v. ; pret. and pp. flaked, ppr. flak- 
ing. [(flake 1 , n.] I. intrans. To break or 
separate in flakes or layers ; peel or scale off : 
absolutely or with off. 
We've seen the little tricks of life, its varnish and veneer, 
In stucco-fronts of character flake o/Tand disappear. 
0. W. Holmes, Meeting of Alumni of Harvard College, 
v [1857. 
II. trans. 1. To form or break into flakes: 
as, the frost flaked off the plaster. 2. To cov- 
er with or as with flakes ; fleck. Longfellow. 
flake' 2 (flak), n. [Also written flaik, fleak; < 
ME. flake, fleke, fleyke, a hurdle, < Icel. flaki, 
also fleki, a hurdle, esp. a shield of wickerwork 
used for defense in battle, = ODan. flage = MD. 
vlaeck, D. vlaak, a hurdle (vlaken, beat wool on 
a hurdle), = MLG. vlake, LG. flake, flake, a 
hurdle.] 1. A hurdle or portable framework 
of wicker, boards, or bars, for fencing ; a fence ; 
a paling. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
The painful pioners wrought against their will, 
Vf Ml fleaks and fagots ditches vp to fill. 
T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, iii. 116. 
2. Naut., a small stage hung over a ship's side, 
from which to calk or repair any breach. 3. 
A platform for drying salted fish; a fish-flake. 
