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  • English Word Flake Definition A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
  • English Word Flake Definition A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
  • English Word Flake Definition A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
  • English Word Flake Definition A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • English Word Flake Definition To form into flakes.
  • English Word Flake Definition To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
  • English Word Flaked Definition of Flake
  • English Word Flakiness Definition The state of being flaky.
  • English Word Flaking Definition of Flake
  • English Word Flaky Definition Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • English Word Flam Definition A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
  • English Word Flam Definition To deceive with a falsehood.
  • English Word Flambeau Definition A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
  • English Word Flambeaus Definition of Flambeau
  • English Word Flambeaux Definition of Flambeau
  • English Word Flamboyant Definition Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
  • English Word Flamboyer Definition A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
  • English Word Flame Definition A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
  • English Word Flame Definition Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
  • English Word Flame Definition Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
  • English Word Flame Definition A person beloved; a sweetheart.
  • English Word Flame Definition To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
  • English Word Flame Definition To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
  • English Word Flame Definition To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
  • English Word Flame-colored Definition Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.
  • English Word Flamed Definition of Flame
  • English Word Flameless Definition Destitute of flame.
  • English Word Flamelet Definition A small flame.
  • English Word Flamen Definition A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
  • English Word Flamineous Definition Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.