FLA 
which filleth the mind with comfort and heavenly de¬ 
light, ftirrethup flagrant defires and affections, correfpon- 
dent unto that which the words contain. Hooker. —Glow¬ 
ing ; fhifhed: 
See Sappho, at her toilet’s greafy talk, 
Then \T\x\wg, flagrant to an evening mafk : 
So morning infeCts, that in muck begun. 
Shine, buz, and fly-blow, in the fetting fun. Pope. 
Red j imprinted red: 
Their common loves, a lewd abandon’d pack, 
The beadle’s lafh (till flagrant on their back. Prior. 
Notorious; flaming into notice.—When fraud is great, 
it furnifhes weapons to defend itfelf; and at worft, if the 
crimes be fo flagrant that a man islaid afide out of perfect 
fliame, he retires loaded with the fpoils of the nation. 
Swift. 
With equal poife let fteady juftice fway, 
And flagrant crimes with certain vengeance pay ; 
But, ’till the proofs are clear, the ftroke delay. Smith. 
FLAGRA'TION, f Iflagro, Lat.] Burning. DiH. 
FLAGS, f. in falconry, the feathers in a hawk’s wing 
next to the principal ones. 
FLAG'STAFF,yi The ftaff on which the flag is fixed: 
The duke, lefs numerous, but in courage more, 
On wings of all the winds to combat flies : 
His murdering guns a loud defiance roar, 
And bloody crolfes on his flagflajfs rife. Dryden. 
FLA'GY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Marne : five miles fouth of Monterau. 
FLAIL, f. [ flagellum, Lat. flegel, Ger.] The inftru- 
ment with which grain is beaten out of the ear ; the tool 
of the threfher.—The dextrous handling of the flail, or 
the plough, and being good workmen with thefe tools, 
did not hinder Gideon’s and Cincinnatus’s (kill in arms 
and government. Locke. 
The threfher, Duck, could o’er the queen prevail ; 
The proverb fays, No fence againft a flail. Swift. 
To FLAIR, v. n. In the fea language ; to fpread more 
than ufual above the water. 
FLAKE, fl. [ floccus , Lat.] Any thing that appears 
loofely held together, like a fleece of wool.—Small drops 
of a milling rain, defcending through a freezing air, do 
each of them fhoot into one of thofe figured icicles ; 
which, being ruffled by the wind, in their fall are broken, 
and cluttered together into fmall parcels, which we call 
flakes of fnow. Grew. —A ftratum ; layer ; film ; lamina : 
The flakes of his tough flelh fo firmly bound, 
As not to be divorced by a wound. Sandys. 
To FLAKE, v. a. To form in flakes or bodies loofely 
connected : 
From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, 
Mold the round hail, or flake the fleecy fnow. Pope. 
To FLAKE, v. n. To break into lamina:; to part in 
loofe bodies. 
FLA’KINESS, f. The flate of being flaky. 
FLA'KY, adf. Loofely hanging together : 
Hence, when the fnows in winter cenfe to weep, 
And undiflblv’d their flaky texture keep, 
The banks with eale their humble dreams contain, 
Which fwelt in fummer, and thofe banksdifdain. Blackmore. 
Lying in layers or ffrata ; broken into lamir.se. 
FLAM, / [A cant word,, of no certain etymology.] 
A falfehood ; a lie ; an illtifory pretext.—Pleas of con- 
feiettee to the contrart are nothing but cant and cheat, 
flam "and delufion. South. 
To FLAM, v. a. To deceive. —God is not to be flammed 
off with lies, who knows exactly what thou canlt do, and 
what not. South . 
FLA 439 
FLA'MAEL (Bertholet), a Flemifli painter, born at 
Liege, in 1614. His father, who was a painter on glafs, 
finding in his ion a happy difpofition for the arts both of 
mulic and defign, cultivated both in his education ; but 
his genius at length decided for the laft. After ftudying 
under two different matters in his native city, he vifited 
Italy in his twenty-fourth year, and elevated his ideas by 
a furvey of the matter-pieces'in that country. Heim- 
proved himfelf fo much from the diligent imitation of 
what he faw there, that his reputation caufed him to be 
employed by the grand duke of Tufcany, in painting one 
of the galleries in his palace. Thence he went to France, 
where lie was patronifed by the chancellor Seguier, and 
engaged in fome, public works. He returned in 1647 to 
his native city, which he decorated with fome excellent 
performances. He alfo painted for the king of France a 
grand allegorical piece upon canvas, for the ceiling of the 
great audience-chamber at the Thuilleries. He died in 
1675, at the age of lixty-one. His ftyle was.that of the 
Roman fchool. He was a correct defigner, and poffefTed 
a noble tafte for hiftorical compolition. 
FLAMA'LE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bifhopric of Liege: four miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Liege. 
FLAMANVIL'LE, a fea-port town of France, in the 
department of the Channel, with a good harbour: ten 
miles'fouth-weft of Cherburg. 
FLAM'BF.AU, f. [French.] A lighted torch.—The 
king feized a flambeau with zeal to dertroy. Dryden. 
FLAM'BOROUGH, a factory of the Hudfon-bay com¬ 
pany, on the fouth-wettern fide of Hudfon-bay. 
FLAM'BOROUGH HEAD, a noted promontory on 
the coaft of Yorklhire, to the north of the river Humber, 
about five miles to the eaft of the port of Bridlington, 
and the extreme eaftern limit of the bay fo called. Its 
lofty fnow-white cliffs are feen far out at fea, and on many 
occafions are a particular direction to feamen, having an 
appearance not unlike the Culver Cliffs of the I lie of 
Wight, but extending round the head for feveral miles to 
the north-weft. The numberlefs multitudes of fea-fowl 
of various kinds which occupy the ledges of thefe ftu- 
pendous rocks almoft exceed credibility, and fill the air 
and ocean all around them. Some have fuppofed that 
this head, and the village of the fame name within land, 
take their denomination from flame, on account of its 
watch-tower, with conftant lights for failors. On this 
coaft the flood-tide fets to the fouth-eaft nearly in the di¬ 
rection of the coaft from the northward ; and it has high 
water on full and change days about four o’clock. Lat. 
54 deg. 9 min. N. Ion. 4 min. E. 
FLAME,/ \_flamma, Lat. flamme, Fr.] Light emitted 
from fire.—Is not flame a vapour, fume, or exhalation 
heated red-hot, that is, fo liot as to fhine ? Newton .— 
Fire.—See the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 179. 
Jove, Prometheus’ theft allow ; 
The flames he once ftole from thee, grant him now. Cowley. 
Ardour of temper or imagination \ brightnefs of fancy | 
vigour of thought: 
Of all our elder plays, 
This and Philafter.'have the loudeft fame ; 
Great are their faults, and glorious is their flame: 
In both our Englifh genius is expreft, 
Lofty and bold but negligently dreft. Waller, 
Ardour of inclination: 
Smit with the love of kindred arts we came. 
And met congenial, minglin gflame with flame. Pope*. 
Patti on of love : 
Come arm’d it> flames ; for I would prove 
All the extremities of love. Cowley. 
To FLAME, v. n. To fhine as fire ; to burn with emif- 
fion of light.—Can you think to blow out the intended 
fire your city is ready to flame in, with fuch weak breath 
as this ? Shakefpeare, 
