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Show FL FL *Tis common for a duck to run Fapping and flut That fets us all atodds 3. T L' Eftrange young " The dire flupping on the thield of Turnus, an burnin o and with car Gay raifins ou {emble fparkles of fire He plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel and drinks candles end for fapdragons rides the wild mare with the boys ‘Jo FLA'PDRAGON To fwallow an Shakefpeare @. . [from the noun. to devour Low cant Havin A whorefon, beetle-headed fapeared knave. Shak F0 FLARE. w. a Dutch to flutter [from flederen Skinner perhap uy When they combine and mingle, brin A ftrong regard and awe; but fpeech alon Milton Flaring in funthine all the day Prior 4. To flutter with a fplendid fhow She fhall be loofe enrob'd With ribbands pendant farizng bout her head Shakefpeare. . /. [¢xo%, Minfbeav. 1, A fudden, quick, tranfitory blaze ope Shakefp than th Hiftory 7. /. [flafque, French. a veflel 1. A bottle Then for the Bourdeaux you may freely afk But the Champaigne is to each man his fafk. King 11, Peremptory Powder in a fkillefs foldier's fa/ Is fet on fire Thou Strike fat the thick rotundity o' th' world. Shake/ Virtue could fee to do what virtue woul By her own radiant light, though {un and moo Rofcommon when with heaven he ftrove And as Egeon Defy'd the forky lightning from afar At fifty mouths his flaming breath expires And flafb for fla/b returns, and fires for fires, Dryd 2. Sudden burft of wit or merriment your gambols? you fongs? your fla/bes of merriment, that were won Shakefp to fet the table in a roar Wicked men prefer the light fa/bes of a wanto mirth, which for a while fufpend refle¢tion, an hide the finner from himfelf, to fuch difcourfes a awaken confcience Rogers 3. A fhort tranfient ftate The Perfians and Macedonians had it for a fa/b Bacon 4. A body of water driven by violence %o FrasH. . 1. To glitter with a quick and tranfien flame to wal upon without protuberances In the dawning of the next day we might plainl difcern it was a land far to our fight, and full o bofcage 3. Not elevated; fallen; not ere& Ceafe t> admire by the injection of well kindled charcoal, mad . fafb divers times, almoft like melted nitre t Boyle 2. To burft out into any kind of violence By day and night he wrongs mej ev'ry hou Fall fat, and fhrink into a trivial toy At every fudden {lighting quite abafht 4. Level with the ground Is flat defpair: we muft exafperat Th' Almighty Victor to fpend all his rage Milton's Paradife Loff And that muft end us If thou fin in wine or wantonnefs Boaft not thereof, nor make thy fhame thy glory Frailty gets pardon by fubmiffivenefs But he that boafts, thuts that out of his ftory He makes_fat war with God, and doth defy With his meer clod of earth, the fpacious fll;y erbert You had broke and robb'd his houfe And f{tole his talifmanique loufe And all his new-found old inventions prominence of the figures Ray FrLat. 2 / 1. A level; an extended plane The ftrings of a lute, viol, or virginals, give a fa greater found, by reafon of the knot, board and concave underneath, than if there were nothing bu only the faz ofa board to let in the upper air int the lower Bacon Becaufe the air receiveth great tinGture from th earth expofe fleth or fith, both upon a ftake of woo fome height above the earth, and upon the faz o the earth Bacon It comes ntar an artificial miracle to make diver diftin€k eminences appear a flat by force of {hadows and yet the fhadows themfelves not to appear Wotton's Architeéture He has cut the fide of the rock into a flat for garden; and by laying on it the wafte earth, tha he has found in feveral of the neighbouring parts furnifhed out a kind of luxury for a hermit. 4ddifon The wood-born people fall before her fat Fairy 2 Wanting relief; wantin i or dilat it, as we would have our voice faz or fharp 5. Lying proftrate; lying along 6. [In painting. fhar feveral cartilages and mufcles to contraé Milton Daniel no Bacon make no ring, but a _j7a¢ noife or rattle The upper end of the windpipe is endued wit the church of Weftminfter lies not #az upon it, i South your lordfhip's commendation acute If you ftop the holes of a hawk's bell, it wil ‘That Chrift-church ftands above ground, and tha no found Milton Which laid that wretched prince far on the ground fhrill 12. No Bacon That lamentable wound Hudibras With_#fat felonious intentions In them is plaineft taught, and eafieft learnt What makes a nation happy, and keeps it fo What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities Zar Shakefpeare's Henry 1V Thus repuls'd, our final hop and beauty's plume And worthip her as goddefs of the wood was fo tha every bomb that fell on them would take effe@ Addifon on Italy 2. Smooth and put into a crucible 1 will, that's faz Milton The houfes are fat roofe "Thofe prifoners you fhall keep Pope all-thaking thunder Spenfer And lend no ear unto my purpofes A veflel i Another plac' The filver ftands with golden fa/kers grac'd downright abfolute tioufnefs You ftart away Shakefpeare Fralsker, # f. [from flafk. which viands are ferved Am'rémy:s Sermans His horfe with ffat tiring taught him, that difSidrney creet ftays make fpeedy journeys It is a_flat wrong to punifh the thought or purpof of any before it be enacted; for true juftice punifheti nothing but the evil ac or wicked word. -Spenfer As it is in the nature of all men to love liberty fo they become faz libertines, and fall to all licen 2. A powder-horn Were in the fat fea funk "The other out of fmoak brings glorious light falt powdered Mat and unfavoury FLAT. adj. [ plat, French. 1. Horizontally level without inclination One with a f7a/b begins, and ends in fmoak Thi FLASK I cannot fta Where be your gibes now earthly fatisfactions muft needs look little, and gro The taftes that moft offend in fruits, herbs an roots, are bitter, harfh, four; waterifth or fZa/by Bacon's Natural Hiftory ‘When the crofs blue lightning feem'd t ‘The breaft of heav'n, I did prefent myfel Ev'n in the aim and very fla/b of it We fee a flafb of a picce ‘is feen foone Bacon's Natura ;oife is heard To one firmly perfuaded of the reality of heavenl happinefs, and earneftly defirous of obtaining it, al Bacon's Effays Safby things 2. To glitter offenfively FLASH My hopes all Zat, nature within me feem Milton Inall her funions weary of herfelf 10. Unpleafing; taftelefs How weary, ftale, faz and unprofitabl Seem to me all the ufes of this world! Shakefpeare Diftilled books are, like common diftilled waters Herbert 3+ To be in too much light I feel my genial {pirits droop 2. [From flaccidus, Skinner.] Infipid; without force or {pirit Doétrine and life, colours, and light, .in on Dryydern 9. Deprefled; fpiritlefs; dejected Dryden Nor will I};hange for all the fa/by wit When the fun begins to flin His flaring beams, me, goddefs, brin To arched walks of twilight groves Some fhort excurfions of a broken vo He made indeed, but far infipid ftuff Which tl}:ou think'ft nothing, friend! thou fhalt no changed from glarz.fi 1. To glitter with tranfient Iuftre Carew This mean conceit, this darling myftery accidentall Doth vanifh like a_faring thing And in the ear, notconfcience, ring to be fhotrout of fecret intentions; but as for larg difcoutfes, they are flaz things, and not fomuch noted Bacaon Flafby wits cannot fathom the whole extent of Digby on the Soul, Dedication large difcourfe When they lift, their lean and fla/by fong Grate on their {crannel pipes of wretched ftraw Milton Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Fra'peareD. adj. [ flap and car. loofe and broad ears Shortfpeeches fly abroad like darts, and are though flance But to make an end of the fhip, to fee how th fea fapdragoned it 8. Dull; unanimated; frigid Fra'suer. 7 /o [from fa/p.] A man o more appearance of wit than reality. Dif Wit Fras'aiLy. adv. [from jflaky. empty fhow; without real power of wit or folidity of thought Fra'suy. adj. [from fla/b. 1. Empty; not folid; fhowy without fub them by clofing the mouth, eat them 2. The thing eaten at flapdragon Philips But to the tongue inelegant and fat the drops ré the fame cafteth a fhining colour, an that what of fweet befor Hath touch'd my fenfe, flaz feems to this and harfh Miltarn, The miry fields Rejoicing in rich mold, moft ample frui Of beauteous form produce; pleafing to fight That all the blood and filth away was wafh'd Fairy Queen If the fea-water be fafbed with a ftick or oar extinguifhin and Tatte fo divine The waves about, and all his armour {wept 7. /. [froma dragon fup brandy o With his raging arms he rudely fa/b' Let thy worft wig, long us'd to ftorms, be worn 1. A play in which they catc break out into wit, metriment Ile, like a puling cuckold, would drink The lees and dregs of a fat tamed piece gbahfp 7o Frasu. . a. 'To firike up large bodie of water from the furface W hen fuffocating mifts obfcure the morn pofed to breathe fire Shakefpeare's King Lear great irtegula a int e fometi ou flaf The nefs of thought Felton on the Glafficks 2. To fall with flaps or broad parts depending Beneath his fapping hat fecures his hair 4. Taftelefs; infipid; dead bright thought fluttering .about "his head, difheartened him in th Dryden's En duel This knows the powder'd footman FL He flafbes into one grofs crime or other - §ering away, as if maimed to carry people from he ‘Fra'ppracoN B s 2 Eve ground no mountainous Now pile your duft upon the quick and dead >Till of this fat a mountain you have made T o'ertop old Pelion, or the fkyith hea Of #lue Olympus sF Shake/peare's Hamleé Th |