flapeared

[Eng. flap, and eared.] Having broad, loose and pendulous ears. flăp-jack, s . [Eng. flap , and jack . ] A kind of broad, flat pancake; an apple-puff; a fried cake. *flap-mouthed, a. [Eng. flap , and mouth ; -ed .] Having broad, loosely hanging lips. flăp-per, s. [Eng. flap; -er.] 1. One who flaps. *2. One who, or that which serves to remind any one of a thing; in allusion to the flappers in Swift's Gulliver's Visit to Laputa , who were employed by the dreamy philosophers of that island to flap them on the face with bladders in order to wake them from their reveries. 3. A young wild duck before it is able to fly. flapper-dock, s. Bot.: [FLAP-DOCK.] flapper-skate, s. IMG:content-1717.png:[blocks in formation] flash-pipe, s. A mode of lighting gas by means of a supplementary pipe pierced with numerous (1) To glitter, to flutter with a dazzling or gaudy small holes throughout its length. show. "Overlaid with wanton tre es, and in a flaring tire."Milton: Reformation in England , bk. i. *(2) To be exposed to too great heat or light. "I cannot stay Flaring in sunshine all day." Prior. (Johnson.) IMG:content-1718.png:[blocks in formation] 1. An excited or angry argument or dispute. 2. A spree, po ibly drunken.