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- English Word Flyer Definition The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
- English Word Flyer Definition Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
- English Word Flyer Definition One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
- English Word Flyer Definition The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
- English Word Flyer Definition The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
- English Word Flyer Definition A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
- English Word Flyfish Definition A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.
- English Word Flying Definition of Fly
- English Word Flying Definition Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
- English Word Flying fish Definition A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
- English Word Flying squirrel Definition One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.
- English Word Flyman Definition The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
- English Word Flymen Definition of Flyman
- English Word Flysch Definition A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
- English Word Flyspeck Definition A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
- English Word Flyspeck Definition To soil with flyspecks.
- English Word Flytrap Definition A trap for catching flies.
- English Word Flytrap Definition A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
- English Word Fnese Definition To breathe heavily; to snort.
- English Word Fo Definition The Chinese name of Buddha.
- English Word Fo'gey Definition See Fogy.
- English Word Fo'liolate Definition Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.
- English Word Foal Definition The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
- English Word Foal Definition To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
- English Word Foal Definition To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
- English Word Foaled Definition of Foal
- English Word Foalfoot Definition See Coltsfoot.
- English Word Foaling Definition of Foal
- English Word Foam Definition The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
- English Word Foam Definition To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.