flammiferous 
flammiferoust (fla-mif 'e-rus), a. [< L. flammi- 
fcr, < flamma, flame, +"ferre = E. bear 1 .] Pro- 
ducing flame. Cotes, 1717. 
flammivomous (fla-miv'o-mus), a. [< L. flam- 
iHiroiitHs, vomiting flames, < flamma, flame, + 
vomcre, vomit.] Vomiting flames, as a volcano. 
Coles, 1717. [Rare.] 
Sure Vulcan's shop is here 
Hark, how the anvils thunder round the dens 
l''tiiiiiiiii<-<iiiious ! W. Thompson, Sickness, iii. 
flammulated (flam'u-la-ted), a. [< ~L.fl<tm mu- 
lct, a little flame: see flammule.] In ornitli., 
pervaded with a reddish color; ruddy; redden- 
ed: as, the flammulated owl, Scops flammeola. 
flammule (flam'ul), . [< L. flammula, a little 
flame, dim. of flamma, a flame: see flame.] A 
little flame ; specifically, one of the little flames 
associated in pictures, etc., with Chinese and 
Japanese gods and other sacred beings, to 
whose superhuman nature they testify in the 
manner of the aureole and nimbus. 
flamy (fla'mi), a. [< flame + -y 1 .] Pertaining 
to, consisting of, or like flame. 
My thoughts, imprison'd in my secret woes, 
With flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
Yonder cloud behold, 
Whose sarcenet skirts are edged with flamy gold. 
Pope, Dunciad, iii. 264. 
How gloriously about the sinking sun 
The flatny clouds are gathered ! 
Bryant, Tale of Cloudland. 
flan 1 (flan), n. [Sc., also flann; < Icel. flan, a 
rushing; ef. flana, rush heedlessly.] 1. A sud- 
den gust of wind from the land ; a flaw. 
Tho' the wind be not so strong, there will come flanns 
and blasU off the land. 
Brand, Description of Shetland, p. 81. 
2. Smoke driven down the chimney by gusts 
of wind. 
flan 2 (flan), v. t. ; pret. and pp. flanned, ppr. 
flanning. [< OF. flan, a loophole, embrasure; 
prob. a var. offlanc, side: see flank 1 .] Inarch., 
to splay or bevel internally, as a window-jamb. 
flan 1 * (flan), n. [Origin obscure.] A small round 
net for covering the openings of rabbit-burrows 
when the rabbits are hunted with ferrets. 
After the holes are . . . covered with purse-nets, called 
flans, the ferret should be put in. 
W. E. Daniel, Rural Sports. 
flan 4 (F. pron. flon), n. [F., < OF. flan, flon, 
flaon (later also jlanc), a blank for coining ; a 
particular use of flaon, a cake, tart, > E. flawn : 
see flawn.] A piece of metal shaped ready to 
form a coin, but not yet stamped by the die. 
Same as blank, 9. 
These Syracusan bronze coins were extensively used in 
Sicily, chiefly by the Sikel towns, as blanks or flans on 
which to strike their own types. 
B. V. Head, Uistoria Numorum, p. 157. 
flancardt, . [< OF. flancard, also flaneart, 
flanchard, armor for the flanks of a horse (cf. 
flaneart, adj., of the flank or side), < flanc, side, 
flank: see flank 1 , .] In armor, plated armor 
for the flanks of a war-horse. Also flanchard. 
Compare flancher. 
Some had the mainferres, the close gantlettes, the guis- 
settes, the flancardes droped & gutted with red, and other 
had them spekeled grene. Hall, Hen. IV., an. 1. 
2252 
side, flank: see flank 1 .] In armor, housing for 
the flanks of a war-horse. Also 
Compare flancard. 
flanconade, flanconnade (flang-ko-nad'). >. 
[F., < flam; flank, side.] In f entity, the ninth 
and last thrust, usually aimed at the side. Eo- 
linnln (ed. Forsyth). 
flandant, . A kind of pinner attached to the 
cap or bonnet worn by women toward the close 
of the seventeenth century. 
Will it not be convenient to attack your flandan first, 
says the maid ? More anger yet '! still military terms ? 
Dunton, Ladies' Diet 
Flanderert, n. [< Flander-s + -o-i.] A native 
of Flanders. See Fleming. 
These German colonists are, in a yet existing document, 
referred to as Flanderers. Contemporary Rev., LI. 328. 
flank 
flange-Wheel (flanj'hwel), n. A car- or car- 
riage-wheel having a guide-flange on one or 
both sides of the tread. 
Hanging-machine (fliin'jing-ma-shen"), n. A 
machine for bending the edges of boiler-iron, 
ship-plates, or sheet-metal to form a curved or 
bent edge or flange.- For pipes ami hollow ware such 
machines are made in the form of a revolving mechanism 
flanch (flanch), n. [An assibilated form of 
flank 1 , further altered to flange: see flank 1 , 
flange.] 1. A projection; a flange. 
A carefully made piston . . . having & flanch rising four 
or flve inches, and extending completely around its cir- 
cumference. Thurslon, Steam-Engine, p. 64. 
2. In her., a bearing composed of a part of the 
field bounded by a curve projecting boldly into 
the field from one side and nearly reaching the 
fesse-point. In some continental systems of heraldry 
the flanch is bordered by straight lines meeting in a right 
angle, and therefore resembling a pile, but less acutely 
pointed. Flanches are always borne in pairs, and the es- 
cutcheon so charged is most commonly blazoned flanched. 
See cut under flanched. Alsoflanque&udflaunch. Com- 
pare flasqite. 
flanchardt, Same as flancard,. 
flanched (flancht), a. In her., charged with a 
pair of flanches. The tincture of the flanch is men- 
tioned in the blazon, and it often hap- 
pens that instead of a single tincture 
the surface of the flanch is covered with 
bearings identified with some person 
other than the bearer. Sometimes the 
Handles are charged with the ancestral 
arms of the bearer, and their position 
on these limited parts of the fleld is 
an early form of denoting cadency, or 
Flanched Gules, perhaps illegitimacy. Also flanked, 
. 
flanchert, [ME. flauncher, < OF. flanchiere, 
housing for the flanks of a war-horse, < flanc, 
Flanders brick. See i 
Flandrisht, . [ME. Flaundriseh; < Flander-s 
+ -ish 1 ."] Flemish. 
Uppon his heed a Flaundriseh bever hat. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 272. 
flanerie (fla-ne-re'), n. [P., <.fldner, lounge, 
gossip : seefldneur.] Lounging ; the idle, saun- 
tering life of a flaneur. 
It is by the aimless flunerie which leaves you free to fol- 
low capriciously every hint of entertainment, that you get 
to know Rome. //. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 126. 
flaneur (fla-ner'), n. [F., a lounger, loiterer, 
<fldner, lounge, loiter, stroll about, dial, gossip ; 
cf. Icel. flana, rush heedlessly: seesaw 1 .] An 
idle, gossiping saunterer; one who habitually 
strolls about idly. 
More unlooked-for happenings, more Incidents in the 
drama of real life will happen before midnight to the in- 
dividuals who compose the orderly Boulevard procession 
in Paris than those of its chaotic Broadway counterpart 
will experience in a month. The latter are not really 
more impressive, because they are apparently all running 
errands and include nofltlneurs. The flaneur would fare 
ill should anything draw him into the stream. 
New Princeton Rev., VI. 93. 
flang 1 (flang). A Scotch and obsolete English 
preterit of fling. 
flang 2 (flang), n. [Origin obscure.] In min- 
ing, a two-pointed pick. 
flange (flanj), . [A later form of flanch, which 
is an assibilated form of 
flank 1 : see flanch, flank 1 .] 
1. A projecting edge, rim, or 
rib on any object, as the rims 
by which cast-iron pipes are 
connected together, or the 
marginal projections on the 
tires of railroad-car wheels 
to keep them on the rails. 
2. A strengthening rib: as, 
the flange of a fish-bellied rail 
or girder. 3. A plate placed 
over the end of a pipe or 
cylinder to close it partly or 
wholly. Backing-up flange, a 
flange or collar by which a body is 
held firmly to its seat or bearing. 
Blank flange, a plate used to close 
the end of a flanged pipe. 
flange (flanj), .; pret. and pp. flanged, ppr. 
flanging, [(flange, n.] I. intrant. 1. To pro- 
ject out. 
I have seldom looked on the east end of a church with 
more complete sympathy. As it flanges out in three wide 
terraces, and settles down broadly on the earth, it looks 
like the poop of some great old battle-ship. 
/.'. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 188. 
2. To be bent into a flange ; take the form of a 
flange. 
II. trans. To furnish with a flange ; make a 
flange on. 
flange-gage (flanj'gaj), n. In rail., a gage for 
determining the correctness of the distance 
between the inside and the outside of flanges. 
Also called distance-gage. Car-Builder's Diet. 
flange-joint (flanj 'joint), n. A joint in pipes, 
etc., made by two flanges bolted together. 
flange-lip (flani'lip), n. In rail., a dovetailed 
projection on the wheel-center entering into a 
corresponding groove in the tire to hold on the 
flange in case of accident, but otherwise sus- 
taining no strain. Car-Builder's Diet. 
flange-pipe (flanj'pip), n. Pipe of which the 
separate lengths or sections are provided with 
flanges, so that the ends can be butted and held 
together by bolts. 
flange-rail (flanj'ral), n. A railroad-rail fur- 
nished with a flange on one side to prevent 
the wheels of locomotives from running off the 
line. 
Flanging-machine. 
Various forms of 
Flanges. 
which presses the edge of the tube or vessel against an 
anvil, or of a wheel which traverses the edge of the ves- 
sel, bending the edge back as it advances. In other forms, 
as In the flanginfj. press, the edge of a flat plate is bent by 
direct pressure in a hydraulic press. 
flanging-press (flan'jing-pres), n. Seeflanging- 
macliine. 
flank 1 (flangk), n. and o. [< ME. flank, flawnk, 
the flank (def. 1), = D. flank = G. Dan. flanke 
= Sw. flank, < OF. flanc, F. flanc = Pr. flanc 
= Sp. Pg.flanco = It. fianco, < ML. flancus, the 
side, flank (def. 1); with change of Teut. ft?- to 
Rom. fl-, < OHG. hlanca, lanca, lanka, lancha, 
MHG. lanke, lanche, loin, flank, side, = ME. 
lanke, lonke, E. dial, lank, the groin : see lank%. 
Hence flanch. flange.] I. n. 1. The posterior 
part of either side of an animal, between the 
ribs and the hip; also, the thin piece of flesh 
constituting this part. 
The sides, flankes, and bellie (of the chameleon] meet 
toglther, as in flshes. Holland, n. of Pliny, viii. 33. 
The two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which Is 
by ttteflanlci, . . . shall he take away. Lev. iii. 4. 
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine 
Sheath'd, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, I. 1115. 
2. In entom., the pleura or side of an insect's 
thorax. 3. Milit., one of the sides of an army, 
or of any of its divisions, as a brigade, regi- 
ment, or battalion : as, to attack the enemy on 
the right flank. 
When to right and left the front 
Divided, and to either flank retired. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 670. 
The front attack was kept up so vigorously that, to pre- 
vent the success of these attempts to get on our flanks, 
the National troops were compelled, several times, to take 
positions to the rear nearer Pittsburg landing. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 340. 
Hence 4. A side of anything: as, the flanks 
of a building. 
Mountains have arisen since 
With cities on their/tarits. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
5. In fort., that part of a bastion which reaches 
from the curtain to the face, or any part of a 
work that defends another work by a fire along 
the outside of its parapet. See cut under bas- 
tion. 6. The acting surface of a cog inside 
the pitch-line. 7. pi. In farriery, a wrench or 
any other injury to the back of a horse. 8. In 
leather-manuf., the part of a hide from the side 
of a beast. 
The parts of hides are called butts, backs, flanks, etc., 
and form grades of thickness and quality. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 38. 
Open flank, in fort., that part of the flank which is cov- 
ered by the orillon. Stocgufler. 
U. o. Pertaining to a flanker side, (a) Form- 
ing a part of, or cut from, the flank : as, a flank piece of 
meat, (6) Situated on the flank or at the side : as, A flank 
file or company of a regiment or battalion, (c) In a direc- 
tion toward or from one of the flanks : as, a flank attack 
or defense; a flank movement. Hank file. See flleS. 
Flank march, a march made parallel or obliquely to 
an enemy's position, with the intention of threatening or 
turning it, or of attacking him on the flank. Flank pa- 
trols, patrols which operate parallel to and in front of 
the flanks of an army, or body of aimed men, to secure 
information regarding the country and the movements of 
the enemy, and to protect the main body from surprise by 
giving timely notice of an intended attack on the flank. 
Flank (or flanque) point, in her., same as base point 
(which see, under point). 
flank 1 (flangk), v. [= D. flankeren = G. flan- 
kiren = Dan. flankere = Sw. flankera, < F. flan- 
quer = Sp. Pg. flanquear = It. flancare, flank ; 
from the noun. Cf. flange, v.] I. trans. 1. 
To stand or be placed or posted at the flank 
