flogging 
When a long day's tagging ha- been at last followed by 
a solitary rise, il requires some in-rve to lie sufficiently 
hard on a lish. Quartrrl.i Bw., i'\\\ 1. 360. 
flogging-Chisel (flog'ing-chiz"el), n. A large 
chisel used to chip off certain parts of an iron 
casting. One man holds the chisel while a 
second strikes it with a sledge-hammer. 
flogging-hammer (flog'ing-ham'er), n. A ma- 
chinists' hammer in s'm- between a sledge- and 
a hand-hammer. 
flog-master (ttog'niiis t er), . One who exe- 
cutes punitory flogging, as in a prison. 
Busli\ is never a greater terror to a blockhead, or the 
llridtVell floy-uuietn- to a night-walking strumpet 
Tom Brown, \\ orks, II. 205. 
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3. A great body of moving water, rising, swell- 
ing, and overflowing land not usually covered 
with water; a deluge ; an inundation. 
Zee sclmlle nudrestonde, that it is on of the- oldi'.-l 
Townes of the World: For it was founded before Nm-s 
l.-/.,,l... M,i,,'l'-rille, Travels, p. 3U. 
He relents, . . . 
And makes a covenant never to destroy 
The earth again by jiuud. Milton, V. L., XL 892. 
The walls of Earth are with the great fresh flouilx washed 
to the ground. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 45. 
flogster (flog'ster), M. [< A<>0. ,- 
who is, as a schoolmaster, addicted to flogging. 
Floirac (flwo-rak' ), it. [F.] A red wine grown 
in the neighborhood of Bordeaux. It is one ol 
the most abundant and commonly exported of 
the lower grades of claret above that of vin or- 
dinaire. 
floit 1 !, . [Also floyt; el. flite and flout*. ] A 
contest. 
The Duke of Beilfonle, accompanyed with the Erie nf 
Marehe and other Lordes, had a great foyt and batayll 
with dyuers carykkes of Jcane and other shyppes, were 
(where! after longe and sore fyght, ye honour fyll to hyni 
and his Englysshemen. Fabyan, Chron., I. an. 1616. 
floit' 2 (floit), . [Now only So., spelled floyt; 
ME. floyte, another form offlowte, a flute: see 
flout 1 and/itte 1 . The form floit, floyt, is perhaps 
due to the OD. foimfluyte.'] 1. Same as ./Intel. 
[Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
And many nfloi/te and lilting home, 
And pypes made of grene corne. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1223. 
2. [Cf. OD. flityte, flattery, deception, fluyten, 
talk smoothly or flatteringly, practise decep- 
tion, tr. soothe with blandishments : aeeflouP.} 
A flatterer or deceiver. Polwart; Jmuieson. 
S A petted person. Jamieson. 
floit 2 t r. i. [ME. floyten, another form of flow- 
ten, play the flute : see flout*-.] To play the 
flute. 
flokkardt, Same bsflocket. 
flomt, flomet, . Middle English forms of flume. 
flonet, [ME. flone, flon, earlier flan, < AS. 
flan, early tormflaan (pi. flanas,tL\sofldna), also 
in shorter formfld, flau (pi. flan), ME. fla, flo, 
an arrow, = Icel. fleinn, an arrow, dart, a bay- 
onet-like pike, the fluke of an anchor. A sim- 
ilar loss of organic final appears in mistletoe, 
< AS. mistelttlu = Icel. inistilteinn.'} An arrow. 
Hit monteth, and he let him gon, 
So of bowe doth the fan. 
King Alisaunder, 1. 784. 
With Amuz fleterede thay flitt fulle frescly tlier frekez, 
ffichehe with fetheris thurghe the fyne maylez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2097. 
flongif. Obsolete preterit and past participle 
of fling. 
florig 2 (flong), w. In stereotyping, a combination 
of several sheets of moist tissue-paper succes- 
sively superposed, with thin paste between: 
used by stereotypers, in the papier-rnach< pro- 
cess, to form a mold or matrix from composed 
types. The flong is beaten on the types with a stiff brush, 
until it penetrates every depression. When dried it serves 
as a mold or niatrix.Drytng the flong, the operation 
of exposing the matrix of Hong to steam- or furnace-heat 
until it is entirely free from moisture. 
flood (flud), n. [In early mod. E. often floud, 
sometimes flud; < ME. flood, flod, rarely flud, 
< AS. flod, flowing water, a river, the tide, a 
flood, the flood, = OS. flod, flood = OFries. 
flod, floed = D. vloed = MLG. vlot, vloet, LG. 
flood = OHG. fluot, MHG. vluot, G. flut, fluth 
= Icel. flodh = Sw. Dan. flod, flood, = Goth. 
flodus, a river; with formative -d (-th), from 
the root of AS. flowan, T&.flow, etc.: see flow 1 .'] 
1. Flo wing water; a stream, especially a great 
stream; a river. [Now only poetical.] 
The/food which men Nile calleth. 
Goner, Cant. Amant., III. 103. 
My lorde Jesus schall come this day, 
Fro Galylee vn-to this flode je Jourdane call. 
York Plays, p. 173. 
What need the bridge much broader than the flood ? 
Shak., Much Ado, i. 1. 
Arcadia's flow'ry plains and pleasing floods. 
Dryden, tr. of virgil. 
2. A great body of water; the sea. 
Jesu hem sente wyude ful good, 
To her hem over the salte flode. 
Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 1393. 
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion 
Cpon the beached verge of the salt /food. 
Shalt., T. of A., v. 2. 
4. The inflow of the tide ; the semidiurnal rise 
or swell of water in the ocean : opposed to ebb. 
The mone 
The which hath with the see to done 
Of flodes high and ebbes lowe 
I 'p'on liis eiiaunge it shall be knowe. 
Cower, Conf. Amant., III. 108. 
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 
Shot., J. C.,iv. 3. 
By Gods mercie they recovered them selves, & having 
v /t'"i( with tlicin, struck into y harbore. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 86. 
5. A great body or stream of any fluid or fluid- 
like substance; anything resembling such a 
stream : as, a flood of lava ; a flood of light. 
See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, 
And break upon thee in a flood of day. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 98. 
Freedom, in other lands scarce known to shine, 
Pours out a, flood of splendour upon thine. 
Cowper, Expostulation, 1. 589. 
Hence 6. A great quantity; an overflowing 
abundance ; a superabundance. 
For from the prince, as from a perpetual well-spring, 
cometh among the people the flood of all that is good or 
evil. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
You see this confluence, this great flood of visitors. 
Shak., P. of A., i. 1. 
7 The menstrual discharge when excessive. 
Deucalion's flood, the destructive deluge from which, 
according to Creek mythology, Deucalion, son of Prome- 
theus and his wife Pyrrha alone survived to repeople the 
earth Half-flood, the time when the flood-tide has been 
running for three hours. Noah's flood, or the flood, 
the universal deluge recorded in Oenesis as occurring in 
the days of Noah. 
Go ; if your ancient, but ignoble blood 
Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. 
Pope, Essay on -Man, iv. 212. 
Young flood, a term applied to the beginning of the flood- 
flood (flud), i'. [< flood, .] I. trans. To over- 
flow; inundate; deluge, literally or figurative- 
ly : as, to flood a building or a mine in order to 
extinguish a fire ; to flood a meadow. 
The moon is at her full and, riding high, 
Floods the calm fields with light. Bryant, Tides. 
The procession of fishermen sweeping from point to 
point within the reef, till the island, flooded with starlight 
and torchlight, lies like a green sea-garden in a girdle of 
flame. C. W. Stoddard, South-sea Idyls, p. 331. 
The drawing-room through the open windows visa flooded 
with a sweet confusion of odors and bird-notes. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 440. 
II. intrans. 1. To be poured out abundantly ; 
rise in a flood. 
The Nilus would have risen before his time, 
And flooded at our nod. Tennyson, Fair Women. 
This Lowman stream . . . is wont to flood into a mighty 
head of waters, when the storms of rain provoke it. 
It. D. Dlackinore, Lorna Doone, i. 
2. To have an excessive menstrual discharge ; 
also, to bleed profusely after parturition ; suffer 
post-partum hemorrhage; flow, as a lying-in 
woman. 
floodage (flud'aj), n. [< flood + -age.} Inun- 
dation. Carlyle. [Bare.] 
flood-anchor (fhid'ang"kor), n. The anchor by 
which a ship rides during the flood-tide. 
flood-COCk (flud'kok), n. A cock for letting 
water into a magazine or shell-room on board 
a man-of-war, to flood it, in case of fire. 
flooder (flud'er), n. One who floods or irrigates. 
flood-flanking (flud'flang'king), n. A method 
of embanking with stiff moist clay which is dug 
in spits and each spit thrown forcibly into its 
place so as to unite with the one previously 
thrown. As the clay dries it contracts, leaving 
crevices, which are filled by sludging. E. H. 
Kniglt t. 
flood-gate (flud'gat)^n. [ME. flodegate, flode- 
yate; < flood, 1, + gate.'] A gate designed to 
be opened to permit the outflow of water, or to 
be shut to prevent it; hence, any opening or 
opportunity for indiscriminate flow or passage ; 
a great vent. 
This canal had, without doubt, flood-nates to hinder too 
great a quantity of water from running into it on any ris- 
ing of the river. Pococke, Description of the East, II. 186. 
They have opened the flood-gates to the immigration of 
foreign labor. N. A. Kev., CXLII. 599. 
floor 
[I s.-d iis an adji-i-tivc' by Shakspere. 
My partirllllir grief 
Is of fofluuil-tintr anil u'crbearing nature. 
That it engluu and allow* other KOTOWS. 
Shut., Othello, i. B.I 
flooding (flud'ing), . 1. The act of overflow- 
ing or inundating ; inundation. 2. The men- 
strual discharge when excessive; also, hemor- 
rhage after childbirth. 
flooding (flud'iug), p. n. In an obsolete use, 
lavish or profuse. 
Surely we nickname this same flooiliiimj man, when we 
call him by the name of brave, Feltham, Eesolves, i. 53. 
floodlesst (flud'len),a. [< flood + -less.} Arid. 
Danes. 
A fruit-les, flood-lei, yea a land-let land. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
flood-mark (flud'mark), n. A mark or line show- 
ing the height to which the tide or a flood has 
risen or usually rises ; high-water mark. 
flood-tide (flud'tid), M. The rising tide. See 
flood, n., 4, and tide. 
fl'oodyt, a. [< flood + -01.] Pertaining to the 
sea or flood. 
This monarchal! fliuly induperator [the herring). 
Xashe, Lenten Stutfe (Harl. Misc., VI. 157). 
flookH, An obsolete form of fluke 1 . 
flook' 2 , n. See ./lute'-*. 
flookan, Seeflucan. 
flocking (flo'king), n. Same as flucan. 
flooky, o. See flaky. 
floor (flor), H. [Early mod. E. also floarc, flore ; 
dial, fleer; < ME. floor, flore, flor, < AS. flor, 
floor, = D. v loer = MLG. 
vlor, LG. floor, a floor, = 
MHG. vluor, m. and f ., G. 
flur, m., floor, flooring, 
entrance-hall, flur, f., 
field, plain, level ground, 
= Icel. /or, the floor of a 
cow-stall, = Ir. and Gael. 
Idr (for orig. *pltlr) = W. 
Wawr = Bret. lew, floor.] 
1. That part of a room 
or of an edifice which 
forms its lower inclosin 
surface, and upon whic_ 
one walks; specifically, 
the structure, consist- 
ing in modern houses 
of boards, planks, pave- 
ment, asphalt, etc. , which 
forms such a surface. 
An ordinary floor of timber 
consists in its simplest form of 
boards laid down close toge- 
ther and supported upon a se- 
ries of joists, as shown in flg. A. 
s 
jle floor : a, a, a, 
7 joists. B, framed floor : a, a, 
a Surface, floor-joists; 6, binding-joist: 
t, c, ceiling-joists ; d, glider. 
C, double floor : a, a, floor- or 
bridging-joists ; *. *, binders : 
c , c, c, ceiling-joists. D, strut- 
ted floor. 
riesoi joists, n aiivn in "g. ". 
In floors over wider spaces, or in buildings of more costly 
construction, the Moor-joists are themselves supported by 
additional beams or joists called binders, as shown in figs. 
Band C the ceiling-joists of the room below being fastened 
to the under side of the binders. It is usual in houses, etc., 
to brace and secure the floor-joists by means of crossed 
struts, as shown in flg. D, forming a strutted floor. In fire- 
proof buildings the wooden joists are replaced by iron I 
beams, the spaces between which are bridged over by nar- 
row vaults of brick, concrete, tiles, etc. 
To rest he layd him downe ii]K)ii the flore 
(Whylome for ventrous Knights the bedding best), 
And thought his wearie limbs to have redrest. 
Spemer, F. Q., IV. v. 39. 
Ay he harpit, and ay he carpit, 
Till a' the lords gaed through the floor. 
Lochmaben Harper (Child's Ballads, V I. 5). 
And the floor of the house he [Solomon] overlaid with 
gold, within and without. 
2 Any similar construction, platform, or lev- 
eled area : as, the floor of a bridge ; the charge- 
floor of a blast-furnace ; a threshing-/oor. 
He will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat 
into the garner. 
The level places where the bricks are moulded, called 
the floors. C. T. Damn, Bricks, p. 103. 
3. A natural surface corresponding to a floor in 
character or use ; a circumscribed basal space 
or area of any kind: as, the floor of a gorge or 
a cave ; the floor of one of the ventricles of the 
brain. 
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, 
Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. 
Milton, Lycidas, L 167. 
After the last mining shaft is passed, and the floors 
where the precious blue clay lies to be pulverised by the 
sun's action, the frontier of the Free State is crossed. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 198. 
The floor of this many-hued passageway is white sand 
and sandstone. The Century, XXXV II. 195. 
The characteristic feature of a bed is that it Is a mem- 
l>er of a series of stratified rocks ; the layer above it is 
called the roof of the deposit, and the one be ow i , is th. 
a 00 r r Ltifyc. ant., AVI. 440. 
