Flat, flat, a

having an even surface; level; without, or without moderate, inclination; prostrate; laidlow; ruined; wanting relief or prominence of the figures [Paint.]; insipid; dull; without point or spirit;depre ed; dejected; unpleasing; peremptory; absolute; not sharp [Mus.]; low, as the prices of goods, or dull, underwater; as sales: s. a level shoal plain; or atract shallow; lying the at broad a small flat depth side of anything; depre ion of thought or language; a boat, broad and flat-bottomed; ahat made of straw braid with a low crown and broad brim; one who is easily duped; amark of depre ion in sound, thus b which lowers a note a semitone; that part of the covering of a house which is laid horizontally and usually covered with lead or other material [Arch.]; in Scotland, a floor in a house: v.a.to flatten; to make vapid or tastele ; to make dull or unanimated;to depre : v.n. to grow flat; to become insipid or dull; to depre the voice [Mus.[ Flatly, flat -le, ad. in a flat manner. Flatne , flat -nes, s. the state of being flat.