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Show FL L z. Without ptominence or elevation The way is ready and not long Beyond a row of myrtles, on a_flat Fait by a mountain Milton's Paradife Lof Laertes in a riotou head Flatly unjuft, to bind with laws the free. Milton Not any interpreters allow it to be fpoken of fuc as flatly deny the being of God; but of them tha All the infetions, that the fun fucks u Shakefp From bogs, fens, fats, on Profpero fall Half my pow'rs this night Pafling thefe fats, are taken by the tide Thefe Lincoln wafhes have devoured them 4. Shallow; ftrand believing his exiftence, feclude him from diretin the world Shake/ I. Evennefs place in the fea wher figure, as one of the greateft beauties in fculpture Addifon on Medals out through fo many fars and fands, if wind an Raleigh's E/Jays weather be not very favourable 3. Deadnefs; infipidity; vapidnefs Deadnefs or flatnefs in cyder is often occafione Having newly left thefe grammatick Afars an fhallows, where they ftuck unreafonably, they ar now turmoiled with their unballafted wits in fathom by the too frec admiffion of air into the veflel Hortimer's Hufbandry 4. Dejettion of fortune Milton The emperor of Ruffia was my father Oh, that he were alive, and here beholdin His daughter's trial | that he did but fe And dang'rous fats, in fecret ambuth lay Where the falfe tides {kim o'er the cover'd land And feamen with diffembled depths betray. Dryden Muft we now have anocean of mere fats an Bent/ey fthallows, to the utter ruinof navigation £, The broad fide of a blade The flatnefs of my mifery! Shakefp. Winter's Tale 5. Dejettion of mind of {pirit How faft does obfcurity, #atznefs, and impertinenc A darted mandate cam flow in upon our meditations 'Tis a difficult taf to talk to the purpofe, and to put life and perfpicuit into our difcourfes Collier From that great will which moves this mighty frame Bid me to thee, my royal charge, repair "To guard thee from the dzmons of the air My flaming fword above 'em to difplay 6. Dulnefs; infipidity; frigidity Some of Homer's tranflators have {welled int fuftian, and others funk into flatrefs Pope All keen and ground upon the edge of day ‘The flar to fweep the vifions from thy mind 7. 'The contrary to fhrillnefs or acutenefs o found ‘The edge to cut 'em through that ftay behind. Dryd 6. Depreflion of thought or language Lof is admirable therefore bound to maintain, that there ar amongft his elevations, when 'tis eviden along fometimes for above an hundred line but a fuc mak of th of th ravithing charms in a dul a fufficient compenfation fo ancient mountains, and fo Bentley lafting hills To FuaT. v, a. [from the noun. 1. T level and {mooth deprefs t to mak broa The ancients fay, if you take two twigs of fe veral fruit-trees and fat the bin an the clofe on the fides an fet them in the ground the Bacon ‘will come up in one ftock With horrid fhapes fhe does her fons expofe Diftends their {welling lips, and fazs their nofe Creech 2. To make vapid An orange, lemon "and apple, wrapt in a line cloth, being buried for a fortnight four feet dee within the earth, though in a moift place and rain time, were become a little harder than they were otherwife fre(h in their colour, but their juice fome Bacon's Natural Hiffory what fatted o ELoT v. 7 1, To grow flat : oppofed to_fwel/ T burnt it the fecond sime, and obferved the fki fhrink, and the {welling to fas yet more than a tinft Lemple 2. 'To render unanimated or evanid Nor are conftant forms of prayer more likely t Fat and hinder the fpirit of prayer and devotion than unpremeditated an confufed variety to diftrac King Charle and lofe it Fra'rrone, adv. [fat and long.] Wit the flat downwards ; not edgewife What a blow was there given ~-An itha fallen flatlong Shakefp. Tempef? ¥ra'rLy. adv. [from flat. 1. Horizentally ; without inclination Take two faucers, and ftrike the edge of the on againft the bottom of the other within a pale o water, and you fhall find the found groweth mor flat, even while part of the faucer is above the water but that #atzefs of found is joined with a harfhnefs Bacon no fat he creep together Dryden {urface without relief, or prominences Are there the unvaried fa¢, t the chief thing the precious thing want of life ; wan To Fra'tTEN. 0. a. [ fatir, French Sat. fro 1. To make even or level, without prominence or elevation 2. To beat down to the ground I the fhoul lie i it Satten it, it will rife again 3 4 7 1 2 an beat it down o Mortimer's Hufbandyy To make vapid To dejett; to deprefs; to difpirit FLA'TTEN. @. 7 To grow even or level To grow dull and infipid Flatter'd crimes of a licentious age Provoke our cenfure 3. T pleafe to footh purely Gallick 'This fenfe j A confort of voices fupporting themfelves by thei different parts make a harmony pleafing]y fills th Dryden's Dufrefnoy He, always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flatt'ring gale Unmindful Milton Fra'tTERER. 7 /. [from flatter.] One wh flatters ; a fawner; a wheedler ; one wh endeavours to gain favou falfities by pleafin When I tell him he hates fatterers He fays he does; being then moft flattered Shak Some praifes proceed merely of flattery; and i he be an ordinary fatterer, he will have certai common attributes, which may ferve every man: i he be a cunning flatterer, he will follow the arch flatterer which is a man' pudent fatterer felf But if he be an im look wherei a ma to himfelf that he is moft defetive is confciou and is moft ou of countenance in himfelf, that will the fastere entitle him to perforce Bacon If we from wealth to poverty defcend Want gives to know the fatt'rer from the friend Dryden After treating her like a goddefs, the hufband ufe her like a2 woman wha is ftil worfe th mof abject fatterers degenerate into the greateft tyrants « Addifon's Guardian The publick fhould know this: yet whoever goe about to inform them, fhall be cenfured for a farterer Swift Fra'tTery # [from fatter 5 fatterie French.] Falfe praife; artful obfequioufnefs ; adulation Minds, by nature great, are confcious of their great nefs And hold it mean to borrow aught from Aattery Rove Simple pride for fatt'ry makes demands Pope See how they beg an alms of farzery They languifh, O ! fupport them witha Iye. Young Fra'rTisH. adj. [from fat.] Somewha flat; approaching to flatnefs and of a_fazti/b thape over to fix or feven Woodward on Fofiils Fra'tuLency. z [, [from fatulent. FLa'tTER. 2. f. [from fat. 'The workman or inftrument by which bodies ar flattened To FLA'T'TER. w. a. [ flatter, French. 1. To footh with praifes ; to pleafe wit blandifhments; to gratify with fervile obfequioufnefs; to gain by falfe compliments When I tell him he hates flatterers His nature is too noble for the worl He would not fatter Neptune for his trident Young Thefe are from three inche Here joys that endure for ever, frefh and in vigour are oppofed to fatisfactions that are attended wit faticty and furfeits, and flatzen in the very tafting L' Eftrange He fays he does ; being then moft fattered Newton 2. 'To praife falfely 4. To raife falfe hopes extenfion It appears fo very plain and uniform, that on would think the coiner looked on the fatnefs of is very great to bring them in o Milton's Paradif leve of Piet Pope Averfe alike to flatter or offend 1 fcorn to Aatter you or any man ears and fatters them 2. Want of relief or prominence I-fhould not fee the fandy hour-glafs run But I thould think of fhallows and of fats. Shakefp lefs and unquiet deeps of controverfy Full in the prince's paffage hills of fand Bentley Fra'tness. #. /. [from flas. the water is not deep enough for fhips The difficult Deca Unjuft, thou fay'ft Shakefpeare's Hamlet O'erbears your officers their unwilling neighbours out of all their poffeflion He in thefe wars had far/y refufed hisaid. Sidney Thereupon they fatly difavouc To yield him more obedience, or fupport. Daniel The ocean, overpeering of his lift Eats not the flazs with more impetuous haft youn fators out of patt, they contrived another of forci 3. Without {pirit; dully; frigidly 4. Peremptorily; downright 3. A fmooth low ground expofed to inundations The FL Shak Or Jove for's power to thunder: his heart's his mouth What his breaft forges that his tongue mutt vent Shakefpeare He that flattereth his neighbour, fpreadeth a ne for his feet Prov, xxix. He flattereth himfelf in his own eyes, until hi iniquity be found hateful Pf. xxxvi. 2 After this way of fastering their willing bene 1. Windinefs; fulnefs of wind; turgefcenc by wind confined Vegetable fubftances contain a great deal of air which expand Satulency itfelf, producing all the diforders o | Aréuthnot z. Emptinefs; vanity; levity ; airinefs Whether moft of the are not the genuine deri- vations of the hypothefis they claim to, may be determined by any that confiders the natural fatulenc of that airy fcheme of notions Glanville FLA'TULENT. adj. [ Jatulentus, flatus,Lat. 1. Turgid with air; windy Peafe are mild and demulcent; but being full o aerial particles are fazulent, when diffolved by digeftion Arbutbnot Flatulent tumours are fuch as eafily yield to th preflure of the finger ; but readily return, by thei Luincy elafticity, to a tumid ftate again 2. Empty; vain ; big without fubftance o reality; puffy To talk of knowledge, from thofe few indiftiné reprefentations which are made to our groffer faculties,. is a_flatulent vanity Glanville's Seepfis How many of thefe Aatwxlent writers have fun in their reputation their works after feve or eight editions of Dryden FrarvosiTy |