fly-dung 
fly-dung (Ili'dung), r. t. In dyeing, to pass 
through a bath of strong oow-unng, or, as is 
iiow usual, of a solution of silicate of soda, of 
the double phosphate of soda and lime, or of 
arsenite or arseniate of soda, in <irdrr to get 
rid of the flies or spots due to invguhir dyeing: 
said of goods dyed with madder. 
fly-dunging (9I'dimg"ing), . In dyeing, the 
first of the two passages of a fabric through 
the dunging solution, Hie second passage being 
known as tne nt'i-amt iliin/jni/j. See fly-dung. 
The dunging process is always performed twice : the 
first time in a cistern with rollers ; and the second, in a 
beck .similar to a dye-beck, washing well between. The 
first is called ilii-dnnijhiy ; the other, second dunging. 
Ure, Diet., I. 627. 
flyer, n. See flier. 
fly-finisher (fli'fin"ish-er), n. In piattofprte- 
makinij, one who fits up and places in position 
the movable parts of a piano. 
fly-finishing (fli'nn"ish-ing), n. In pianoforte- 
making, the act of fitting and placing in posi- 
tion the movable parts of a piano. 
fly-fish (fli'lish), n. A scorpeenoid fish, Seba- 
Htiehthys rliadocliloris, with moderate scales, 
smooth cranial ridges, and pale blotches on the 
sides, surrounded by green shades. It is about 
a foot long, and is found in deep water off the 
coast of California. 
fly-fisher (fli'fish"er), n. One who angles with 
flies as lures. 
A sly allusion to the colossal catches reported by ima- 
ginative flii-finhers. The Critic, April 3, 1886. 
fly-fishing (fli'fish"ing), n. The art or prac- 
tice of angling for fish with a rod and natural 
or artificial flies as lures. 
Fly-fishing, or fishing at the top, is, as I said before, of 
two sorts, with a natural and living fly, or with an arti- 
ficial and made fly. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 241. 
fly-flap (fli'flap), n. 1. Something with which 
to drive away flies ; a fly-flapper. 
A. file-flap, wherewith to chase them away from blowing 
of meate, flabellum. Withals, Diet. (ed. 1608), p. 207. 
2. A kind of somersault. See the extract. 
There was also the feat of turning ronnd with great ra- 
pidity, alternately bearing upon the hands and feet, de- 
nominated the fly -flap. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 317. 
fly-flapper (fli'flap"er), . 1. One who drives 
away flies by means of a fly-flap. 2. A fly-flap. 
3. One who turns fly-flaps. 
fly -frame (fli'fram), M. 1. In printing, the longer 
rods on three sides of the fly of a printing- 
press, which give the smaller rods proper 
strength and stiffness. 2. In plate-glass 
mantif., a machine for grinding smooth any 
roughnesses upon the surface of the plates, it 
consists of two beds of stone or cast-iron placed a short 
distance apart, with a pivoted frame with two arms se- 
cured between them, and oscillating on its pivot. The 
arms carry heavy rubbing-plates, each being secured to 
its arm by a pin traveling in a slot in the arm. When the 
machine is set in motion, sand and water are applied be- 
tween the rubbing-plates and the plates of glass, which 
are secured upon the beds by plaster of Paris, and a vigor- 
ous grinding action is induced upon the surface of the 
glass. Bobbin and fly-frame. See bobbin. 
fly-fringe (fli'frinj), n. A trimming for wo- 
men's dresses worn toward the close of the 
eighteenth century. It was made of floss-silk, the 
spreading and projecting tassels of which were supposed 
to resemble flies. 
fly-gallery (fli'gaFe-ri), n. One of several gal- 
leries on either side of the flies of a theater, 
varying in number according to the size of the 
house. The drop-scenes and borders are worked 
from the fly-galleries. 
The " fly-men " who work the drops and borders are at 
the ropes in the first fly-gallery. Scribner's Mag., IV. 444. 
flying-cat (fli'ing-kat), n. 1. Same as . fli/int/- 
li-nnir. 2. The taguan or flying-squirrel, a spr- 
cies of the rodent genus Pteromys. [Rare.] 
flying-dragon (fli'iug-drag"<m), n. See <//</</- 
on, 12. 
flying-feather (fli'iug-feTH'er), . Same as 
flight-feather (which see, under feather). 
flying-fish (fli'ing-fish), n. Any fish which can 
sustain itself or make a flight through the air 
by means of enlarged and wing-like pectoral 
fins. Specifically (a) A synentognathous fish of the fam- 
ily ExocaeHdae and subfamily Extic&tiruK, especially of the 
genus Exoc&tus. (See these words.) Nine species of this 
California Flying-fish (Exocatus caltfornitnsis]. 
genus, and of the related genera Halocypnelus and Parexo- 
ccetits, have been taken off the Atlantic coast of North 
America. There is also a large California!! species, E. 
californien&is, some 16 or 17 inches long, which has been 
observed to take very long Mights. See the extract. 
The flying-fishes proper, forming the subfamily of Exo- 
coetines, are distinguished [from other exocoetids] by the 
development of the pectorals, which are elongated and 
capable of considerable horizontal extension, so that the 
flsh is buoyed up in the air, which it reaches by vigorous 
movements of its stout tail and caudal fin. . . . The spe- 
ciesof the family are pelagic, and representatives are found 
in almost all the tropical and warm seas. They associate 
together in schools of considerable size. The aerial flight 
is not strictly entitled to the name, for the pectoral fins 
are not used in active progression, but are simply employed 
as parachutes. . . . The fins are . . . more or less vibrated, 
but it is rather by an opposition to the air than by the voli- 
tion of the animal. Stand, fiat. Hist., III. 175. 
(b) The flying-gurnard, flying-robin, or bat-fish, an acan- 
thopterygian fish of the genus Cephalacanthut or Dacty- 
lopterus, having enlarged pectoral fins divided into two 
parts, and also able to take short flights in the air. They 
are pelagic like the others, and go in schools in warm seas, 
though the best-known species, C. or D. volitans, reaches 
a high latitude. Some are from 12 to 18 inches in length, 
and in general they resemble the gurnards (Triglidce), 
but differ in many anatomical details. See cut under 
Dactylopterus. 
flying-fox (fli'ing-foks), . A large frugivorous 
bat; any bat of the family Pteropodidie, and 
especially of the genus Pteropus, as the well- 
fly-line 
flying-gecko (fli'ing-gek"6), H. A kind of gecko 
lizard, Ptyclio:o6n Jioii/alocepiialum, which has 
large wing-like expansions of skin on the head, 
trunk, tail, and limbs, acting as a parachute to 
sustain the animal during flying leaps. 
flying-gurnard (fli'ing-ger"nard), . A flying- 
tish of the family Cephiiliicaiiiliidce or IJaetylop- 
teridif. Also called^y/</-ro6i. See flying-flsh 
(Ii), and cut under Dactyloptents. 
flying-hook (lli'ing-huk), H. The upper or third 
hook on the line used by fishermen in catching 
whiting and other small fish. [South Carolina, 
U.S.] 
flying-lemur (fli'ing-le"mer), n. A mammal of 
the order Insectivora and family Galeopithecidce, 
provided with an extension of the skin like a 
parachute, by means of which it makes flying 
leaps from tree to tree. Its resemblance to a lemur 
is such that it was formerly referred to the order Pri- 
mates. It has, however, no special affinities with the 
lemurs. Oaleopithecus volant is a common species of Bor- 
neo, Sumatra, Malacca, etc. Also called flying-cat. See 
cut under Galeopithecus. 
flying-lizard (fl!'ing-liz' ) 'ard), n. Any lizard of 
the genus Draco, as D. volant. 
flying-machine (fli'ing-ma-shen"), . 1. Acon- 
trivance designed to enable its user to fly. Va- 
rious machines of this nature have been constructed at 
different times, but none has yet been invented which 
can be practically useful. 
2. A machine designed to float in and propel 
itself through the air. 
flying-marmot (fli'ing-mar' / mot), n. A taguan 
or large flying-squirrel of the genus Pteromys. 
Goodrich. 
flying-phalanger (fli'ing-fa-lan'jer), n. A 
general popular name of the petaurists or fly- 
ing marsupial animals of the family Phalangis- 
tidat, having a parachute-like fold of skin along 
the sides by which they are enabled to take 
flying leaps through the air. There are several 
species and genera, ditfei'ing much in size and general 
appearance, some being no larger than a mouse. Also 
called acrobat and flying-squirrel. See cut under Acrobates. 
flying-robin (fli'iug-rob' l 'in), . The flying- 
gurnard. 
flying-shot (fli'ing-shot), n. 1. A shot fired at 
an object in motion, as a horseman, or a ship 
under sail, etc. 2. A marksman who fires at 
an object in motion. Farrow. 
flying-squid (fll'ing-skwid), n. A sagittated 
calamary or sea-arrow ; a cephalopod or squid 
of the genus Ommastreplies: so called from 
having two large lateral fins, which enable it 
to leap so high out of water that it sometimes 
falls on the deck of a ship. 
flying-squirrel (fli'iug-skwur' l 'el), n. A squir- 
rel or squirrel-like animal having a fold of 
skin like a parachute along each side of the 
body, by means of which it is enabled to make 
long flying leaps through the air. Specifically 
(a) A squirrel proper, a rodent mammal of the family 
SciurultK, of the above character. The smaller species, 
of which several inhabit North America and Europe, be- 
fly-governor (fli'guv"er-nor), . Same 
3 (a). 
fly-honeysuckle (fli'hun'i-suk-l), n. In hot. : 
(a) A plant, Lonicera Xylosteum. (6) A name 
given to the species of Halleria. 
fly-hook (fli'huk), n. A fish-hook to which is 
attached an artificial fly as a lure. 
flying (flTing), n. [< ME. flyinge, flygliynge, 
etc. ; verbal n. of fly 1 , v.~\ 1. The act of mov- 
ing through the air on wings; flight. 
Some [fowls] are of ill flijijhynge for heuynes of body and 
for thaire neste es noghte ferre fra the erthe. 
Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 8. 
2. pi. Loose or floating waste of any kind. 
It [the dynamo-machine] should not be exposed to dust 
or Jliiings. Oreer, Diet, of Elect., p. 87. 
flying (fli'ing), p. a. Swift; equipped for swift 
motion: as, zjtyinQ party Hying army, a strong 
body at cavalry and infantry, which is always in motion to 
cover its own garrisons or to keep the enemy iu continual 
alarm. Fa miw. Flying artillery, camp, column, 
etc. See the nouns. 
Flying-fox (Pteropits medius). 
known P. rubricollis : so called from the fox-like 
shape of the head. There are many species, 
constituting collectively one of the prime divi- 
sions of the order Chiroptera. 
The terns are all gone, but in their place the flying- 
foxes flap heavily along the water. 
P. Robinson, Under the Sun, p. 83. 
flying-frog (fli'ing-frog), n. A batrachian of 
Borneo, of the genus Bhacophorus and family 
Flying-frog (Rhacophorus marmoratus). 
Ranidce, having enormously long webbed toes, 
enabling it to sustain a kind of flight. 
American Flying-squirrel (Scivroptertts volucella}. 
long to the genus Sciuropterus. Such are S. volucella, 
the common flying-squirrel of North America, 6 or 7 
inches long without the tail, with large black eyes and 
extremely soft fur, and the similar old-world S. volans. 
The taguans or larger flying-squirrels are all of the old 
world, and belong to the genus Pteromys ; they are some- 
times called flying-marmots and flying-cats. See cut un- 
der Pteromys. (b) Same as flying '-phalanger. 
flying-torch (fli'ing-torch), n. Milit., a torch 
attached to a long staff for use in night signal- 
ing. Farrow. 
flying-watchman (fli'ing-woch/man), n. The 
dor-beetle or dumbledor, Geotrypes stercora- 
rius. [Local, Eng.] 
fly-leaf (fll'lef), n. A blank leaf at the begin- 
ning or end of a book ; the blank leaf of a folded 
circular, program, or the like. 
fly-line 1 (fli'lin), n. [< flyl + /i)M?2.] The route 
habitually taken by a bird in its regular migra- 
tion. 
