FPage 122
- English Word Flighty Definition Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
- English Word Flimflam Definition A freak; a trick; a lie.
- English Word Flimsily Definition In a flimsy manner.
- English Word Flimsiness Definition The state or quality of being flimsy.
- English Word Flimsy Definition Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
- English Word Flimsy Definition Thin or transfer paper.
- English Word Flimsy Definition A bank note.
- English Word Flinch Definition To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
- English Word Flinch Definition To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
- English Word Flinch Definition The act of flinching.
- English Word Flinched Definition of Flinch
- English Word Flincher Definition One who flinches or fails.
- English Word Flinching Definition of Flinch
- English Word Flinchingly Definition In a flinching manner.
- English Word Flindermouse Definition A bat; a flittermouse.
- English Word Flinders Definition Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
- English Word Fling Definition To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
- English Word Fling Definition To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
- English Word Fling Definition To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
- English Word Fling Definition To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
- English Word Fling Definition To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
- English Word Fling Definition To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
- English Word Fling Definition A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
- English Word Fling Definition A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
- English Word Fling Definition A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
- English Word Fling Definition A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
- English Word Flingdust Definition One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
- English Word Flinger Definition One who flings; one who jeers.
- English Word Flinging Definition of Fling
- English Word Flint Definition A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.