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  • English Word Flash Definition To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
  • English Word Flash Definition To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
  • English Word Flash Definition To trick up in a showy manner.
  • English Word Flash Definition To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • English Word Flash Definition A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
  • English Word Flash Definition A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
  • English Word Flash Definition The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
  • English Word Flash Definition A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
  • English Word Flash Definition Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
  • English Word Flash Definition Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
  • English Word Flash Definition Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
  • English Word Flash Definition A pool.
  • English Word Flash Definition A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
  • English Word Flashboard Definition A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
  • English Word Flashed Definition of Flash
  • English Word Flasher Definition One who, or that which, flashes.
  • English Word Flasher Definition A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
  • English Word Flasher Definition A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
  • English Word Flasher Definition The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
  • English Word Flashes Definition of Flash
  • English Word Flashily Definition In a flashy manner; with empty show.
  • English Word Flashiness Definition The quality of being flashy.
  • English Word Flashing Definition of Flash
  • English Word Flashing Definition The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
  • English Word Flashing Definition Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
  • English Word Flashing Definition The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
  • English Word Flashing Definition A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
  • English Word Flashy Definition Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
  • English Word Flashy Definition Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
  • English Word Flashy Definition Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.