flake 
It keeps the fish clean, and allows a current of air to pass 
under tin-in, so that they dry evenly. It may consist of 
a series of horizontal hurdles at a convenient height from 
the ground, or of three-edged strips of wood nailed to 
frames resting on troth s or horses, with one edge upper- 
most so that the pickle may easily drain away. Flakes are 
usually made so that they can lie taken doun and put up 
when required. [New Eng. and British provinces.) 
Some tear down Flakes, wheron men yeerely dry their 
fish, to the great hurt and hindrance of many other that 
come after them. 
Whit hour lie, Discoverie of New-Found-laml (1822), p. 06. 
4. A rack for bacon. [Prov. Eng.] 5. Awood- 
en frame for oat-cakes. [Prov. Eng.] 6f. A 
2250 
Fair Isis, and ye hanks of Cam ! 
Be witness if I tell :\.flam. 
Hii'ift, Directions for a Birthday Song. 
2. In drum-music, a grace-note. 
II. . Deceptive; lying; false. 
To amuse him the more in his search, she addeth a flam 
story that she had got his hand by corrupting one of the 
letter-carriers in London. Sprat (Harl. Misc.. VI. 224). 
flam 2 (flam), v. t.; pret. and pp. flammed, ppr. 
flamming, [(.flam 2 , w.] To deceive with false- 
hood ; impose upon ; delude : often with off. 
sort of flap fastened to a saddle to keep the 
rider's knee from contact with the horse. 
Till he and you be friends. 
Was this your cunning? and then flam me of 
With an old witch, two wives, and Winnifrede? 
Ford, Witch of Edmonton, ii. 2. 
Of birch their saddles be, 
Much fashioned like the Scottish seates, broad flakes to 
keepe the knee 
From sweating of the horse. Hakluyfi Voyages, I. 388. fla m 3 (flam), n. [Prob. a var. of fleam*.'] A low 
Upland flake, a flake^ for drying codfish, built permanent- marshy place, particularly near a river. Halli- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
God is not to be flammed off with lies, who knows ex- 
actly what thou canst do, and what not. Smith, Sermons. 
ly upon the shore. It differs from the ordinary pattern 
in not being movable. 
flake 3 (flak), r. and n. Same as fake 1 . 
flake-feather (flak'feTH"er), n. A plumule or 
down-feather having the appearance of a tuft 
of extreme fineness and silky texture, found in 
birds of prey, etc. 
If it be necessary to give these feathers a name, they 
may be called flake-feathers. 
flamant, 
Davies. 
[OF. : seo flamingo.] A flamingo. 
Others grew in the legs, and to see them you would have 
said they had been cranes, or the reddish-long-billed-stork- 
like-scrank-legged sea-fowls called flamam, or else men 
walking upon stilts or scratches. 
Urguhart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 1. 
flamant (fla'mant), a. [< OF. flamant, flambant, 
flakelet (flak'let), . [< flake + -let.] A little ppr. of flamer, flamber, flame: see flame, T.] In 
flake. her., flaming; burning, as a firebrand or any 
Flakelets of fragmental mica or earthy matter. bearing. Compare inflamed. 
Qeol.Jour.,x.LIv.n. flambt, flambet, Obsolete forms of flame. 
flaker (fla'ker), n. One who flakes, or strikes flamb (flam), v. [See flam\ flame, .] I.f in- 
off flakes ; specifically, a workman who strikes trans. Same as flame. 
II. traits. If. S&me&s flame. Specifically 
2. To baste, as meat. [Scotch.] 
She . . . undauntedly brandished the Iron ladle with 
which she had just been flambiiuj (Anglic4 basting) the 
flame 
was contemporary with the English Perpen- 
dicular, or to details in this style: as, a, flam- 
boyant window. The west fronts of the cathedrals of 
Rouen, and of St. 
Wulfran at Abbe- 
ville, and portions 
of that of St. Lo, 
a a mong F the C Vost " ' -"* * 
beantifuk exam- 
ples of the style. 
The church [at 
Bourg], which is 
not of great size. 
is in the last and 
most flamboyant 
phase of gothic, 
and in admirable 
preservation. 
//. Jameg, Jr., 
[Little Tour, 
[p. 244. 
(6) Character- 
ized by irreg- 
ular and dis- 
torted forms or 
glaring colors. 
The hotels, res- 
taurants, and 
shops follow the 
usual order of 
flamboyant sea- 
side architecture. 
C. D. Warner, 
[Their Pilgrim- 
[age, p. 139. 
*** 
Flamboyant Tracery, Rouen Cathedr 
mandy. 
off flakes of flint from a larger piece. 
An expert flaker will make 7000 to 10,000 flakes in a day 
of twelve hours. Eneye. Brit., IX. 326. 
roast of mutton. 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xiii. 
flake-room (flak'rom), . Same as flake-yard. 
flake-Stand (flak'stand), n. The cooling-tub - 
or -vessel of a still-worm. E. H. Knight. flambe (t . pron. flou-ba ), a. [P., pp. offlam- 
flake- White (flak'hwif), w, In painting: (a) ler > flame > singe: see flame, v.] In ceram., hav- 
The purest white lead, in the form of scales ln g a changeable or iridescent luster, as cer- 
or plates. It has the best body of any white. tam P or celams, due to the heat of the furnace. 
When levigated, it is called body white, (b) Tne comparison of these flambe vases with onyx or pre- 
Basic nitrate of bismuth, or pearl-white. f'?" 8 8tones is " n to the advantage of the brilliant porce- 
flake-yard (flak ' yard), V An inclosure in - tauu " arperi Ma ' J " LXXVIL 658 ' 
which flakes for drying salted fish are built, flambeau (flam'bo), n. ; pi. flambeaux (-boz). 
and iu which 
flakiness 
flaky. 
flaking (fla'king), n. The operation of making 
flints, as for gun-locks, by striking off flakes 
from a mass of flint. See the extract. 
The . . . operation, "flaking," consists in striking off, 
by means of carefully measured and well-directed blows, 
flakes extending from end to end of the quarter, this pro- 
cess of flaking being continued till the quarter or core 
becomes too small to yield good flakes. 
Entyc. Brit., IX. 326. 
flaking-hammer (fla'king-ham'er), n. A ham- 
mer of steel with blunt points at each end used 
to knock flakes from a flint; also, a stone used 
for the same purpose among primitive races. 
In the latter use, also called hammer-stone. 
flaky (fla'ki), a. [< flake^ + -01.] Consisting 
of flakes or locks ; lying or cleaving off in flakes 
or layers ; flake-like. 
.as if 
flame: 
see flame, n.] 1. A flaming torch of any kind; 
specifically, a light made of 
thick wicks covered with wax 
or other inflammable material, 
and used at night in illumina- 
tions, processions, etc. 
I had a flambeau in my hand, and 
was going before the coach. 
State Trials, Count Coningsmark and 
(others, an. 1632. 
2. In decorative art, a candle- 
stick, especially a large and 
showy one, as of bronze, or one 
of decorative material. 3. One 
of the set of kettles used in the 
open-kettle process of sugar- 
making, so called because the 
flames of the furnace strike 
it with most force. [Southern 
TJ. S.] 
Shall., Rich. III., v. 3. flamberg (flam'berg), n. [G., 
ier tomb, behold a flame ascends, 
The silent hours steal on, 
And flaky darkness breaks within the east. 
While fron 
Of whitest 'fire' whose flight to"heaven"exten'ds ! y-^f- jtumtmyc, \ vr . JUHH- Bronze Flambeau, 
Cutslhro^thfy'ieEg aVwHli'rays of light. flamberge. Medici ami" "* 
Congrene, Mourning Muse of Alexis, flamberge (F. pron. flon-berzh' ), 
Diamonds themselves have a grain or a flaky contexture, n . [OF\, a large sword, said to be < flanc, side, 
w , , , Boyle. + MHG. G. bergen, protect; cf. bainberg. hau- 
Burtt fro"n e the da'Zess !' ' what > te * flrea terfc, which contain the same second element.] 
Watts, Victory of the Poles. A S^ord. 
flaml (flam), n. and v. A dialectal form of flame, flamboyancy (flam-boi'an-si), n. [_< flamboy- 
Compare flamb. !n (*) + <*] The character of bemgflamboy- 
flam 2 (flam), n. and a. [Of artificial origin, per- a ant ' v 
haps from the dial, and former E. pronunciation flamboyant (flam -boi ant , a. and n. [< F. 
of flame (cf. sham, similarly from shame): flam fl nmbo !iant (cf. ME. flaumbeande, < OF. flam- 
would then be equiv. to 'glitter,' which, with or "<), flaming, in arch, flamboyant, ppr. of 
without a disparaging adjective, is often used fl amber > flame: see flame, v.] I. a. 1. Flaming. 
delusion; an illusory pretext; a deception; a 
falsehood; a lie. 
With some new flam or other, nothing to the matter, 
And such a frown as would sink all before her, 
She takes her chamber. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 1. 
Hehad flamboyant red hair. Harper's Hag., LXXVI. 34. 
2. Wavy; having a waved outline like that of 
a flame: said of the blades of certain heavy 
swords of the middle ages, and of the Malay 
creese and similar weapons. Also flaming. 
wheadle, 'twill out; I shali tell It the next man I meet'. 
Sedley, Bellamira. 
epithet applied to that highly ornate or florid 
style of French medieval architecture which 
Hence 4. Figuratively, of style, dress, and 
the like, florid; conspicuous; showy: as, a 
flamboyant rhetoric. 
II. n. A name given in the West Indies to 
several plants with brilliantly colored flowers, 
as Ciesalpinia pulcherrima, Poinciana regia, and 
Erythrina Corallodendron. 
flamboyantly (flam-boi'ant-li), adv. In a 
flamboyant style ; showily; flaringly. 
Herc'less wore also a bright-blue cravat, flamboyantly 
tied. The Century, XXXV. 678. 
flame (flam), n. [Also dial, flam, flamb ; < ME. 
flambe, flaumbe, flaume, flawme, < OF. flambe, 
flamme, flame, F. flambe = Pr.flama = Sp. llama 
= Pg. flamma = It. flamma = D. vlam = MLG. 
flamma = MHG. rlamme, flamme, G. flamme = 
Sw. flamma = Dan. flamme, flame, < L. flamma, 
flame, blaze, blazing fire, orig. 'flagma, < 
Vflaginflagrare, burn, blaze: see flagrant. Cf. 
phlegm (formerly aisoflem, etc. ).] 1 . A blaze ; 
vapor in combustion ; hydrogen or any inflam- 
mable gas in a state of visible combustion . Flame 
is attended with great heat, and generally with the evo- 
lution of much light ; but the temperature may be in- 
tense when the light is feeble, as is the case with the flame 
of burning hydrogen gas. The flame of a burning body, as 
of a candle, may be divided into three zones: an inner zone, 
containing chiefly unburned gas ; a central, containing par,- 
tially burned gas ; and an outer, in which the gas is com- 
pletely consumed by combination with the oxygen of the 
air. The luminosity of flame depends upon the presence of 
solid matter or of dense gaseous products of combustion. 
The reducing flame 
(as of a blowpipe) 
Is that part of the 
flame which is defi- 
cient in oxygen for 
combustion (RF in 
figure), and which 
has therefore a re- 
ducing effect, or, in 
other words, tends 
to deprive the sub- 
stance under examination of oxygen ; the oxidiziivj flame 
is that part (OF in figure) in which the oxygen is in excess, 
and which exerts the opposite or oxidizing effect. The 
distinction is important iu blowpipe analysis. 
There ben 7 places that brennen and that casten out 
dy verse flawmes and dy verse colour. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 55. 
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in aflame 
of flre out of the midst of a bush. Ex. iii. 2. 
Jove, Prometheus' theft allow : 
Theflamei he once stole from thee, grant him now. 
Cowley. 
2. pi. In her., a conventional representation 
of fire, seldom borne as an independent bear- 
ing, but accompanying the phenix, the sala- 
mander, the fire-ball, and the like. When of 
any other tincture than gules, this must be 
mentioned in the blazon. Figuratively 3. 
Brilliant light ; scintillating luster ; flame-like 
color or appearance. 
That jewel of the purest flame. 
Covrper, Friendship, st. 2. 
When on my bed the moonlight falls . . . 
Thy marble bright in dark appears, 
As slowly steals a silver flame 
Along the letters of thy name. 
Tennyson, In Memorial!), Ixvii. 
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