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Show FL FAL 6. To caft: in an ill fenfe A pointed finiy rock, all bare and black Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back I know thy gen'rous temper Fling but the appearance of difhonour on it It firaight takes fire Addifon's Cato 7. To force into another condition, probably into a worfe Squalid fortune, into bafenefs forg Doth {corn the pride of wonted ornaments 8, Zo Frinc away Spenfer 'To eje@; to difmifs g. 7o FLiNG down Shake[peare 'To demolifh to ruin Thefe are fo far from raifing mountains, tha they overturn and fing down fome of thofe whic were before ftanding 10. 70 FLinc off to defeat of a prey The gathering up of flints in finty ground, an laying them on heaps, is no good hufbandry Bacon's Natural Hiftory 3. Hard of heart; cruel; {avage ; inexorable Gratitude Through flinty Tartar's bofom And anfwer thanks with fpirits and fugar To FLiNG. w. 7 1. To flounce; to wince Addifon's Spectator gafcar Duncan's horfes, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their ftalls, Furg out Contending 'gainft obedience Frixg 1. A throw; a caft 2. A gibe; afneer, a contemptuous remark the Addifon Swift FriNGeRr. 7. /. [from the verb. 1. He who throws 2. He who jeers FLINT. #. /. [plinz 1. femi-pelluci 2. Pert ; petulant ; waggifh Away with flippant epilogues Saxon. ftone, compofe South's Sermons Take this, and lay your fiz edg'd weapon by Dryden 1'1l fetch quick fuel from the neighb'ring wood v. a [Sl'imze; thinks it forme Dick the fcavenge Flirts from his cart the mud in Walpole's face Swift 2. To move with quicknefs Permit fome happier ma To kifs your hand, or firt your fan Dorfet o FLirT. @0 1. To jeer; to gibe at one 2. To run about perpetually ; to be unfteady and fluttering FrirT. 7. /. [from the verb. eminentl hard Fui'sty. adj. [from flint. Prior or proverbiall Your tears, a heart of fin Might tender make Throw my hear Againft the finz and hardnefs of my fault Addifon's Speator Before you pafs th' imaginary fight While the fpread fan o'erfhades your clofing eyes Then give one firt, and all the vifion flies. ~Pope 2. A fudden trick Have licence to play At the hedge a #irt For a fheet or a fhirt 3. A pert young hufley Ben Fonfon's Gypfies "women A muflin flounce, made very full, would give very agreeable firtation air Pope JSitter . Danifh [fro To feety or fro to remove. Shak That when a dreadful ftorm away is #iz Through the broad world doth fpread his goodly ray In Scotland i is ftill ufed for removing from one plac to another at quarterday, or the ufua term 1. Made of flint; ftrong His grudging ghoft did friv Hath made the finty and fteel couch of wa My thrice-driven bed of down Shake/p. Othello Wit the fouls o out of on into fome other 3. To flutter bod Hooker to rove on the wing He made a glancing fhot, and mifs'd the dove Yet mifs'd fo narrow that he cut the cor Which faften'd, by the foot, the fitting bird Dyyden's Zn Fear the juft gods, and think of Scylia's fate Pope Chang'd to a bird, and fent to_#if in air 4. To be flux or unftable Himfelf uphigh he lifted from the ground And with ftrong flight did forcibly divid The yielding air, which nigh too fecble foun Her flitting parts, and element unfound Fairy Queern He ftopt at once the paffage of his wind And the free foul to fitting air refizn'd Dry 1 Swift nimble [from feez. adj Not in ufe And in his hand two darts exceeding fit And deadly fharp ; he held ; whofe heads were dight In poifon and in blood, of malice and defpight Fairy Qjven =z /[ [pleee, Saxon; fycke Fritcu. Danith ; Aeche, flocke, French, Skinner. Th an of a hog falte fid cured But heretofore *twas thoughta fumptuous feaft On birthdays feftivals of ftate or day A falt dry flitch of bacon to prepare If they had frefh meat, 'twas delicious fare Dryden's Fuw While he from out the chimney too A fitch of bacon off the hook Savift Cut out large flices to be fry'd He fometimes accompanies the prefent with Addifon Aitch of bacon Fri'trrerMouse. #. f. [wefpertilio; fro 'The bat; the winge At and monfe. moufe Fri'rring. z /. [ple, Saxon, fcandal. a fault An offence a failure a defert Thou telleft my Afirtings, put my tears into th Pfal bottle fur Down fax. fro [corrupte f Frix foft hair With his lol'd tongue he faintly licks his prey His warm breath blows her fix up as fhe lies She trembling creeps upon the ground away And looks back to him with befeeching eyes z f Dryden A plant @. n. [ flotter, French. 1. To fwim on the furface of the water the fea was calm all boats alik Shakefp Shew'd mafterthip in foating The ark no more now foats, but feems on ground Faft on the top of feme high mountain fix'd Milton Tha men bein drowne an funk do jfoa the ninth day, when their gall breaketh, are popuBrown lar affirmations Three bluft'ring nights, born by the fouthern blaft Diyden 1 floated; and difcover'd land at laft His rofy wreath was dropt not long before Born by the tide of wine, and floating on the floar Dyyden Philips Carp are very apt to float away with frefh water the fair funfhine in Summer's day 2. To remove; to migrate tha this life, did fi In cumb'rous mail Spenfer Spenfer Fairy Queen On frothy billows thoufands jfloat the fiream Likett it feemeth, in my fimple wit Unt departin Whe Frirra'tion, # /. [from fire.] A quic . dprightly motion A cant word amon Frit men a received opinion To FLOAT Several young #irts about town had a defign t caft us out of the fafhionable world Addifon It becam Fri'xwoop Scurvy knave, I am none of his firt gills; am none of his fkains mates Shakefpeare 1. To fly away And ftrike the fparkling #int, and drefs the food Vor, I FLIRT from the found. 1. To throw any thing with a quick elaftick motion o Searching the window for a f#izz, T foun This paper Shakefpeare's Fulins Cafar Love melts the rigour which the racks have bred » A flint will break upon a featherbed Cleaveland There is the fame force and the fame refrefhin virtue in fire kindled by a fpark from a fins, as i it were kindled by a beam from the fun Tyrant cufto Thon:fon Fri'pranTLY. adv. [from the adjettive. In a flowing prating way Unto her native prifon to return quick. of fpeech So hardly he the flitted life does wii It is ufed only of | FriT In unfurling the fan are feveral little firts an vibrations, as alfo gradual and deliberate openings whitith cruft. It is {ometimes {moot and equal, more frequently rough: it fize is various It is well known t ftrike fire with fteel. It is ufeful in glaflmaking Hill on Fo/fils thin Dennis 1. A quick elaftick motion cryftal debafed, of a blackifh grey, o one fimilar and equal {fubftance, free fro veins, and naturally invefted with 2. An over An excellent anatomift promifed to diffet woman's tongue, and examine whethelthere ma not be in it certain juices, which render it fo wonderfully voluble or fippant Addifon No little feribbler is of wit fo bare But has his fing at the poor wedded pair I, who love to havea flin Both at fenate-houfe and king Thought no method more commodiou Than to thew their vices odious funbumt whore 1. Nimble ; moveable Shakefpeare = /. [from the verb. fome drunke Fri'spawnT. adj. [A word of no great authority, probably derived from fip-flap. lent and irregular motions 2. 70 FrinG onz. To grow unruly or-outrageous: from the act of any angry horf that throws out his legs wit can of fip to fly into vio The angry beal Began to kick, and fling, and wince As if h' had been befide his fenfe Hudibras "Their confciences are galled by it, and this make them wince and fizg as if they had fome mettle Tillatfon The tarpawlin and {wabber is lolling at Mada To baffle in the chace to be fung off by any falfe fteps or doubles would peep forth Shakefpeare Frire. % /o [A cant word. A liquou much ufed in {hips, made by mixing bee Woodavard Thefe men are too well acquainted with the chac Dryden 2. Full of ftones Cromwell, 1 charge thee, fing away ambition By that fin fell the angels PE the frail flefh; at laft it fizzed is Whither the fouls do dic of men that live amifs Fairy Queen Mortimer 2. 'To move without labour in a fluid What divine monfters, O ye gods, were thef That float in air, and fly upon the feas! Dryden Swift they defcend, with wing to wing conjoin'd Stretch their broad plumes, and ffoat upon the wind Pope 3. To pafs with a light irregular courfe perhaps miftaken for feez or fet Floating vifions make not deep impreflions enoug to leave in the mind clear, diftinét,. lafting ideas Locke 5§ T |