flicker mouse

[Eng. flicker, v., and mouse.] A provincial name for the bat; a flittermouse [FLITTERMOUSE.] *flidge, *flig, *flygge, a . [FLEDGE, a . ] Fledged. *flidge, v . i . [FLIDGE, a.] To become fledged; to gain feathers. marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1754.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1755.png:[blocks in formation] flight-1-lý ( gh silent), adv. [Eng. flighty ; -ly.] In a flighty, capricious, or wild manner. flight-i-ne ( gh silent), s. [Eng. flighty; -ne .] The quality or state of being flighty or capricious; extreme volatility. For the difference between flightine and light- ne , see LIGHTNESS. flight- ( gh silent), a. [Eng. flight ; -y.] *1. Fleeting, swift. 2. Capricious, volatile; indulging in flights of imagination or fancy; wild, fickle. 1. Thin, slight, without strength or solidity; un- substantial. "Those flimsy webs, that break as soon as wrought, Attain not to the dignity of thought." IMG:content-1756.png:[blocks in formation] *7. The space pa ed over in flying. 8. A soaring of the imagination; a mounting; lofty elevation, excursion, or sally. "So when a muse propitiously invites, Improve her favors and indulge her flights ." Roscommon: E ay on Translated Verse. 9. An extravagant pitch; exce ; extreme. "It is not only the utmost pitch of impiety, but the highest flight of folly to deride these things."- Til lots on . *10. A long and light arrow used in shooting rov- ers-i. e., uncertain lengths. IMG:content-1757.png:[blocks in formation] of the word was influenced by that of blench , used in the same sense. ( Skeat .)] 1. To shrink from any undertaking or suffering; to withdraw from any pain or danger; to wince, to give way. "He has talked to me about it, and has a ured me that he will not flinch ."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. *2. To come short, to fail; not to stand the test. "If I break time, or flinch in property, Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die." Shakesp.: All's Well That Ends Well , ii. 1. flinch-er, s. [English flinch; -er.] One who flinches or shrinks from any undertaking or suf- fering. Beaum. & Flet.: Bloody Brother , i. 1. flinch-ing, pr. par ., a. & 8. [FLINCH (2), υ.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of shrinking from any un- der taking or danger. IMG:content-1758.png:[blocks in formation] *7. To baffle; to deceive, in whatever way. 8. To jilt; to renounce as the object of love. "Wise heads have lang been kend to curb the tongue; Had I that maxim kept I'd ne'er been flung." Morison: Poems , p. 152. (a) To cast or throw down upon the ground. (b) To throw to the ground; to overturn. (c) To demolish, to ruin. 1. A cast or throw from the hand. 2. A gibe, a sneer, a jeer. "They had a fling at me."-Mayne: City Match , iii. 2. 3. Entire freedom of action; unrestrained enjoy- ment. *fling-dust, s. A woman of low character; a street-walker; a prostitute. fling'-er, s . [Eng.fling; -er.] 1. One who flings, casts, or throws. 2. One who gibes, jeers, or sneers. *3. A dancer. IMG:content-1759.png:[blocks in formation] implements which McFnery had suspected and Schmerling maintained. No attention was paid to his views till 1858, when Dr. Falconer visited him at Abbeville, just after he had become satisfied that similar relics which he had examined in connection with the scientific exploration of Brixham Cave, in Devons hire, carried back the antiquity of man to a between two horses in a stable. 2. A flail. "The thresher's weary fling in '-tree The lee-lang day had tired me." IMG:content-1760.png:[blocks in formation] genius, the Rhinoceros tich or in us, ., inhabited Britain. Mr. Prestwich, with Mr. John Evans, in June, 1858, and the former naturalist again with Mr. Flower, in 1859, examined the valley of the Somme, and procured for the views of Perthes the a ent of the scientific world. Many flint-imple- ments have been found in the south and east of England, in Bedford shire, in Suffolk, Hampshire, Wilts hire, and in the north and northeast of Lon- don, in E ex, in Bucking hams hire, . The oldest ones are pal eolithic, and are unpolished; the newer neolithic and are polished. The implements from the Somme are of the former kind, and are the old- est known. According to Profe or Boyd Dawkins, the river-drift man inhabiting the valleys of the Somme, the Thames, ., was older than the cave man of Brixham, Kent's Hole, and other caverns. The former lived in the middle part of the Pleisto- cene (Lyell's Upper Pliocene) period and inhab- ited Palestine, India, and this country as well as Europe. The Abbé Bourgeois has found in Mid- miocene strata at Thenay certain split flints, some of them bearing traces of fire. He, with M. Mor- tillet, Dr. Hamy, MM. Quat ref ages, Worsae, and Capellini, believes in a Miocene man, or man-like arms, in which the cock held a piece of flint, and came glancing down upon the steel cap of the pan which contained the priming. Flint-locks were invented early in the seventeenth century, and gradually superseded the match-lock. Pyrites or marcasite was also used. been previously stamped to reduce them below a certain size, are ground to powder for mixing with clay to form slip for porcelain. The flint-mill is a strong circular pan ten or twelve feet in diameter, having a bottom of quartz or felspar blocks, and a runner or runners of hard siliceous stone, called chert, lime in any form being inadmi ible, as it mines, in which flints studded on the surface of a 2. Mining : A mode formerly adopted for lighting wheel were made to strike against a steel, and give a quick succe ion of sparks to light the miner at his work. Sparks will not inflame the fire-damp. IMG:content-1761.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Consisting or composed of flint; of the nature 2. Containing or abounding in flint-stones. "As up the flinty path they strained, Sudden his steed the leader reined." IMG:content-1762.png:[blocks in formation] it inside out. 2. To pull off anything, as a stocking, by turning *flire, *flyre, v. i. [FLEER.] 1. To gibe, to mock. 2. To leer. flint'-gla , s. [ Eng.flint , and gla .] A species of gla made of white sand, 52; carbonate of pot- ash, 14; oxide of lead, 33; alumina, 1; with metallic additions to neutralize color. Pure white sand free from oxide of iron is required for flint-gla , as iron imparts a green color. The articles are made by the agency of the blow-pipe, or ponty, the mold and pre , and frequently by a combination of blowing and pre ing. The silica for its manufacture was formerly derived from pulverized flints, and hence its name. The presence of lead gives it a peculiar property of refracting light, which causes it to be used for lenses, and it forms one of the parts in achromatic compound lenses. Flint gla fuses *1. To jeer; to gibe at one; to speak jeeringly or at a lower temperature than ordinary gla , such as contemptuously. crown, plate, or window gla . It has also le "Such a flurting wit and libertine as the other was."- color, owing to the use of the alkali potash, instead North : Examen. IMG:content-1763.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1764.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A quick elastic motion or jerk; a sudden throw or cast. "The next motion is that of unfurling the fan, in which are comprehended several little flirts and vibrations."Add is on: Spectator , No. 102. *2. A gibe, a jeer, a sneer; a contemptuous remark. 'One flurt at him, and then I am for the voyage." Beaum. & Flet.: The Pilgrim, iii. 1. *3. A low woman, a drab. 4. A coquette; one who flirts or coquets. (Rarely applied to a male.) "Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things." Whitehead: Song for Ranelagh. *B. As adj .: Flirting; coquetting; of light or loose behavior.