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from the Brill. When they landed, they hanged the 
Spanifh commander, Francis Paciotti, one of the greateft 
engineers of his time, and the friend of the duke of Alva ; 
they pillaged the churches and cloifters, and made them- 
felves dreaded both by land and fea, taking likevvife the 
town of Vere, and defeating a fleet of Spanifh fltips com¬ 
manded by the duke of Medina-Celi : the duke of Alva 
and the prince of Parma endeavoured to retake it, but in 
vain. On the 29th of January, 1574, the Flufhingers 
took feveral Spanifh vefTcls, which were fent from Ant¬ 
werp to the fuccourof Middleburg, then befieged by the 
confederates. The States pledged Flufhing, with f'ome 
other towns, to queen Elizabeth, as a fecurity for her 
affiftance, and furrendered it to the earl of Leicefter, who 
was made governor, the 29th of October, 1585, and ar¬ 
rived the fame year with fix thoufand foldiers, and above 
five hundred gentlemen. In 1616, it was reftored, with 
the other towns, to the States, by the negociation of John 
Olden Barnevelt, ambaflsdor to James I. Flufhing was 
the birth-place of Adrian de Ruyter, who, from a failor 
and pilot, became admiral of the United Provinces. On 
the 30th January, 1795, this town furrendered to the 
troops of the French republic. Lat. 51. 29. N. Ion. 21. 
5. E. Ferro. 
FLUSH'ING, a town of the American States, in 
Queen’s county, New-York, fituated on the north-weft 
part of Long Ifland, and on the fouth fide of Hell Gate ; 
feven miles eaft by north of New-York city. It contains 
1607 inhabitants. 
To FLUS'TER, v. a. [from To flujk.~\ To make hot 
and rofy with drinking ; to make half drunk : 
Three lads of Cyprus, noble fwelling fpirits, 
Have I Xo-nXghtflufter’d with flowing cups, 
And they watch too. Shakeflpeare. 
FLUS'TRA, in helmintology, a genus of the order 
zoophyta ; the animal is a polype, proceeding from po¬ 
rous cells : ftem fixed, foliaceous, membranaceous, con¬ 
fiding of numerous rows of cells united together and 
woven like a mat. It is commonly called Horn-wrack, 
or Sea-mat. There are eighteen fpecies now known, 
named as follow : Flujlra dentata ; parafitical, foliaceous, 
with fhining oval cells in a fingle layer, the mouths fur- 
rounded by fharp infleffted teeth. It is found on the 
fhores of England, adhering to fuci and other fub-marine 
Jubilances : it is white, and femi-pellucid. Thisisrepre- 
fented in the engraving at fig. t .—Foliacca ; fo named from 
its foliaceous branches ; arms foliaceous, branches with 
rounded wedge-fliaped fub-divifions. It inhabits the Eu¬ 
ropean and Mediterranean feas ; is about fix inches high, 
and adheres to fhells and rocks: it is pale yellowifh- 
brown, and porous on each furface. This is fhewn at 
fig. 2 .—Bombycina ; the arms frondefeent, with obtufe 
branches divided into two or three parts growing together 
in tufts, fending forth fmall radical tubes, and having a 
fingle layer of cells. This inhabits the Bahama I(lands; 
and is of a filky fubftance : (hewn at fig. 3 .—Verticillata ; 
this is a fmall fpecies, parafitical, with flattifh linear 
branches, narrowed at tne bafe, and rows of top-fiiaped 
ciliate cells difpofed in whorls one above another. It in¬ 
habits the Mediterranean; adhering to fuci: the cells, 
when magnified, appear furrounded by fharp denticles, 
with a long bridle in the front of each, bending inwards 
like a horn, the mouths incline forwards, and their whole 
femi-tranfparent fubftance appears full of fmall points : 
fhewn at fig. 4, in its natural Ilze ; and at fig. 5, magnified. 
■ —Piiofa ; this is foliaceous, varionfly branched, with a 
.Cetaceous' tooth on the lower part of each pore. It inha¬ 
bits the European and Mediterranean feas, incrufting fuci 
and fertularire : whitifli, and porous on both (ides : this 
is fhewn in the engraving at fig. 6.— Denticulata ; parafi¬ 
tical, with oval diftimSt cells, three-toothed at the oppofire 
margins, their mouths margined : this minute fpecies in¬ 
habits the North Seas, on fuci and fhells: it is fhewn in 
its natural fize at fig. 7, and magnified at fig. 8.— Tomen . 
Vol. VII. No. 442. 
FLU 
tofa ; very fmall, parafitical, foft, woolly, with invifible 
cells : inhabits the Baltic and North Seas, on fuci and 
fertulariae : it is correctly delineated at fig. 9, and mag¬ 
nified at fig. 10.— Bullata ; 'parafitical, with ovate pro¬ 
jecting white cells, the months of which are round and 
armed with fmall fpines: found on the Britifti coafts, on 
fuci, fometimes furrounding the fteins, fometimes fpread 
on the leaves.— Tubulofla ; parafitical, membranaceous, 
with fingle oblong-ovate cells and tubular erect mouths : 
this inhabits St. Domingo, adhering to fuci, and is chiefly 
diftinguifhed by its tubulous mouth : yeliowifh and femi- 
tranfparent.— Hifpida ; arms frondefeent, fpongy, tla- 
fronds branched and muricate on one fide, with very rough 
belts: inhabits the Mediterranean; about an inch high : 
pale grey.— Trmcata : foliaceous, fubdivided, with linear- 
truncate fubdivifions : inhabits the EuropeanTeas ; about 
five inches long : pale yellowifh-brown, porous on each 
fide, brittle, with oblong-fquare cells.— Chartacea ; papy¬ 
raceous, with cells on both fides, the tops of the branches 
truncate like the edge of an axe : inhabits the Britifh 
fhores, adhering to fhells : of a thin femi-tranfparent tex¬ 
ture, like fine paper, very light ftraw-colour : the tops of 
the branches fometimes digitated, fometimes irregularly 
divided: cells oblong-fquare.— Carbacea ; foliaceous, fub¬ 
divided, with a fingle layer of cells: inhabits the coaft of 
Scotland; yeliowifh brown : cells large, fub-pellucid in 
the middle, above ovate, beneath truncate, the walls fur- 
rounding them appearing to be formed of a (lender tube. 
— Frondiculofa ; arms frondefeent, with obtufe crowded 
branches thrice divided, and a (ingle layerof cells ; whitifli 
with grey ftuds ; inhabits the Indian Ocean.— Papyracea ; 
cruftaceous, frondefeent, with a wedge-fliaped many-cleft 
fmgly lamellate frond : cells oblong-rhombic and ringent 
at the top; yellowifli, roughifh on one furface : inhabits 
the Mediterranean.— Hirta-, parafitical, flat, coriaceous, 
with contracted diftant cells ; fulvous, with narrow cells, 
brittle : inhabits the Greenland feas, on the fucus no. 
dofus.— Membranacea ; parafitical, membranaceous, with 
oblong-quadrangular cells pointed at the upper projecting 
angles ; very thin, cinereous or vvhilifh : inhabits the 
Britifti and North Seas, adhering to various fub-marine 
fubftances.— Lineata ; parafitical, flat, foliaceous, undi¬ 
vided, with oval cells in tranfverfe rows; refembles the 
laft, but the cells are oval, approximate, eight-toothed, 
and placed in tranfverfe rows, with an empty fpace be¬ 
tween every row : inhabits the ocean, on fuci. 
FLUTE,/! [flufle, flute, Fr. flayte, Dut.J A mufical 
wind inftrument; a pipe with flops for the fingers: 
The foft complaining/Zate 
In dying notes di(covers 
The woes of hopelefs lovers 
Whofe dirge is whifper’d by the warbling lute. Dryden. 
The flute is a very ancient inftrument: it was at firft 
called the flute a bee, from bec, an old Gaulifh word figni- 
fying the beak of a bird or fowl, but more efpecially of 
a cock; the term flute a bee muft therefore fignify the 
beakedflute ; which appears very proper, on comparing it 
with the traverfe or German flute. The word flute is de¬ 
rived from fluta, the Latin for a lamprey or fmall eel taken 
in the Sicilian feas, having feven holes immediately be¬ 
low the gills on each fide, the precife number of thofe in 
the front of the common flute. 
FLUTE-PLAYER, artificial ; fee Automaton, vol. 
ii. p. 578. 
FLUTE, or Fluyt, a long-built veftel, with flat ribs 
or floor-timbers, round behind, and fwelled in the mid- 
die ; intended chiefly for carrying provifions and ftores 
in fleets or fquadrons ; though often ufed for merchan¬ 
dize. Hence fliips and frigates in the king’s fervice, 
when thus laden, are (aid to be armed in flute. 
FLUTE, or Fluting, in archite£lure, perpendicular 
furrows or channels cut along the (haft of a column or 
pilafter. They are fuppofed to have been firft introduced 
in imitation of the plaits of women’s robes ; and are there- 
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