flax dressing

[English flax, and dre ing.] The act, proce , or trade of preparing flax for spinning by breaking and scutching it. *flaxed, a . [Eng. flax ; -ed.] Soft and silky like prepared flax; flaxen. flăx'-en, a. [Eng. flax; suff. -en (q. v.).] 1. Made of flax. 2. Script.: The rendering of the Hebrew word parsh ; Sept. psyllos ; Vulg. pulex , which is prob ably correct. The Hebrew word, according to Gesenius, is from an obsolete quadrilateral root, parash=to leap. ( Ps . xxiv. 14, xxvi. 20.) 1. To have a flea in one's ear: (1) To receive an annoying suggestion. (2) To fail ridiculously in some enterprise or 2. Resembling flax in softne , silkine , or color; scheme. soft and flowing; light in color. "His flaxen hair of sunny hue, Curled closely round his bonnet blue." Scott: Lady of the Lake, ii. 25.