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- English Word Flosculous Definition Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- English Word Flosh Definition A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
- English Word Floss Definition The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
- English Word Floss Definition Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
- English Word Floss Definition A small stream of water.
- English Word Floss Definition Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- English Word Flossification Definition A flowering; florification.
- English Word Flossy Definition Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
- English Word Flota Definition A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
- English Word Flotage Definition The state of floating.
- English Word Flotage Definition That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
- English Word Flotant Definition Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
- English Word Flotation Definition The act, process, or state of floating.
- English Word Flotation Definition The science of floating bodies.
- English Word Flote Definition To fleet; to skim.
- English Word Flote Definition A wave.
- English Word Flotery Definition Wavy; flowing.
- English Word Flotilla Definition A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
- English Word Flotsam Definition Alt. of Flotson
- English Word Flotson Definition Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
- English Word Flotten Definition Skimmed.
- English Word Flounce Definition To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
- English Word Flounce Definition The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
- English Word Flounce Definition An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
- English Word Flounce Definition To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
- English Word Flounced Definition of Flounce
- English Word Flouncing Definition of Flounce
- English Word Flounder Definition A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
- English Word Flounder Definition A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
- English Word Flounder Definition To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.