Fluke

Fluke (?), n. [Cf. LG. flunk, flunka wing, the palm of an anchor; perh. akin to E. fly.]

1. The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

3. An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

4. An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke. [Cant, Eng.] A. Trollope.

Flukeworm

Fluke"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2.

Fluky

Fluk"y (?), a. Formed like, or having, a fluke.

Flume

Flume (?), n. [Cf. OE. flum river, OF, flum, fr. L. flumen, fr. fluere to flow. √84. See Fluent.] A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Fluminous

Flu"mi*nous (?), a. [L. flumen, fluminis, river.] Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Flummery

Flum"mer*y (?), n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.]

1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

2. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.

Flung

Flung (?), imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Flunk

Flunk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flunked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flunking.] [Cf. Funk.] To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

Flunk

Flunk, v. t. To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. [Colloq. U.S.]

Flunk

Flunk, n. A failure or backing out; specifically (College cant), a total failure in a recitation. [U.S.]

Flunky

Flun"ky (?), n.; pl. Flunkies (#). [Prob. fr. or akin to flank.] [Written also flunkey.]

1. A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

2. One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

3. One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

Flunkydom

Flun"ky*dom (?), n. The place or region of flunkies. C. Kingsley.

Flunlyism

Flun"ly*ism (?), n. The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. Thackeray.

Fluo-

Flu"o- (). (Chem.) A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.

Fluoborate

Flu`o*bo"rate (?), n. [Cf. F. fluoborate.] (Chem.) A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.

Fluoboric

Flu`o*bo"ric (?), a. [Fluo- boric: cf. F. fluoborique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron. Fluoridic acid (Chem.), a double fluoride, consisting essentially of a solution of boron fluoride, in hydrofluoric acid. It has strong acid properties, and is the type of the borofluorides. Called also borofluoric acid.

Fluoboride

Flu`o*bo"ride (?), n. (Chem.) See Borofluoride.

Fluocerine, Fluocerite

Flu`o*ce"rine (?), Flu`o*ce"rite (?), n. [Fluo- + cerium.] (Min.) A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.
Fluohydric
Flu`o*hy"dric (?), a. [Fluo- + hydrogen.] (Chem.) See Hydrofluoric.
Fluophosphate
Flu`o*phos"phate (?), n. [Fluo- + phosphate.] (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
Fluor
Flu"or (?), n. [L., a flowing, fr. fluere to flow. See Fluent.]
1. A fluid state. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.
2. Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses. [Obs.]
3. (Min.) See Fluorite.
Fluor albus
Flu"or albus (?). [L., white flow.] (Med.) The whites; leucorrhæa.
Fluoranthene
Flu`or*an"thene (?), n. [Fluorene + anthraene.] (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon CH, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
Fluorated
Flu"or*a`ted (?), a. (Chem.) Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride. [R.]
Fluorene
Flu`or*ene (?), n. (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.
Fluorescein
Flu`o*res"ce*in (?), n. (Chem.) A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
Fluorescence
Flu`o*res"cence (?), n. [From Fluor.] (Opt.) That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.
Fluorescent
Flu`o*res"cent (?), a. Having the property of fluorescence.
Fluorescin
Flu`o*res"cin (?), n. (Chem.) A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresce\'8bn, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
Fluoric
Flu*or"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. fluorique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
Fluoride
Flu"or*ide (? ∨ ?; 104), n. [Cf. F. fluoride.] (Chem.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.
Fluorine
Flu"or*ine (? ∨ ?; 104), n. [NL. fluorina: cf. G. fluorin, F. fluorine. So called from its occurrence in the mineral fluorite.] (Chem.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19. &hand; Fluorine unites with hydrogen to form hydrofluoric acid, which is the agent employed in etching glass. It occurs naturally, principally combined as calcium fluoride in fluorite, and as a double fluoride of aluminium and sodium in cryolite.
Fluorite
Flu"or*ite (?), n. (Min.) Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.
Fluoroid
Flu"or*oid (?), n. [Fluor + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
Fluoroscope
Flu*or"o*scope (?), n. [Fluorescence + -scope.] (Phys.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
Fluorous
Flu"or*ous (?), a. Pertaining to fluor.
Fluor spar
Flu"or spar` (?). (Min.) See Fluorite.
Fluosilicate
Flu`o*sil"i*cate (?), n. [Cf. F. fluosilicate.] (Chem.) A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
Fluosilicic
Flu`o*si*lic"ic (?), a. [Fluo- + silicic: cf. F. fluosilicique.] (Chem.) Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine. Fluosilicic acid, a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon, H2F6Si, obtained in solution in water as a sour fuming liquid, and regarded as the type of the fluosilicates; -- called also silicofluoric acid, and hydrofluosilicic acid.
Flurried
Flur"ried (?), a. Agitated; excited. -- Flur"ried*ly adv.
Flurry
Flur"ry (?), n.; pl. Flurries (#). [Prov. E. flur to ruffle.]
1. A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
2. A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow.

3. Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
The racket and flurry of London. Blakw. Mag.

4. The violent spasms of a dying whale.
Flurry
Flur"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flurried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flurrying.] To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. H. Swinburne.
Flurt
Flurt (?), n. A flirt. [Obs.] Quarles.
Flush
Flush (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. √84.]
1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle.

It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.

4. To star up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
Flushing from one spray unto another. W. Browne.

Flush
Flush, v. t.
1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.

4. To excite; to animate; to stir.
Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.
Flush
Flush, n.
1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
In manner of a wave or flush. Ray.

2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
The flush of angered shame. Tennyson.

3. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
6. [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.] A hand of cards of the same suit.<-- other than poker? -->
Flush
Flush, a.
1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak.

2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit. Flush bolt. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. -- Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.
Flush
Flush (?), adv. So as to be level or even.
Flushboard
Flush"board` (?), n. Same as Flashboard.
Flusher
Flush"er (?), n.
1. A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
2. (Zoöl.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
Flushing
Flush"ing, n.
1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the [Eng.]
2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.
Flushingly
Flush"ing*ly, adv. In a flushing manner.
Flushness
Flush"ness, n. The state of being flush; abundance.
Fluster
Flus"ter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flustering.] [Cf. Icel. flaustra to be flustered, flaustr a fluster.] To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.

Fluster
Flus"ter, v. i. To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
The flstering, vainglorious Greeks. South.

Fluster
Flus"ter, n. Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
Flusteration
Flus`ter*a"tion (?), n. The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]
Flustrate
Flus"trate (?), v. t. [See Fluster, v. t.] To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.
Flustration
Flus*tra"tion (?), n. The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.
Flute
Flute (?), n. [OE. floute, floite, fr. OF. fla\'81te, flahute, flahuste, F. flte; cf. LL. flauta, D. fluit. See Flute, v. i.]
1. A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

2. (Arch.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
4. A long French breakfast roll. Simonds.
5. A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound. Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to column of air in the pipe. Knight.
Flute
Flute (?), n. [Cf. F. flte a transport, D. fluit.] A kindof flyboat; a storeship. Armed en fl\'96te () (Nav.), partially armed.
Flute
Flute (?), v. i. [OE. flouten, floiten, OF. fla\'81ter, fle\'81ter, flouster, F. fl\'96ter, cf. D. fluiten; ascribed to an assumed LL. flautare, flatuare, fr. L. flatus a blowing, fr. flare to blow. Cf. Flout, Flageolet, Flatulent.] To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
Flute
Flute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fluting (?).]
1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.

The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee. Emerson.

2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Fl\'96te à bec
Fl\'96te` à bec" (?). [F.] (Mus.) A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
Fluted
Flut"ed (?), a.
1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby.
2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
Flutemouth
Flute"mouth` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
Fluter
Flut"er (?), n.
1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
Fluting
Flut"ing, n. Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
Flutist
Flut"ist (?), n. [Cf. F. fl\'96tiste.] A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.