flicker2 (fliker)

[Imitated from one of the bird's notes.) The popular name of the golden winged woodpecker, Colaptes auratus, a very common and handsome woodpecker of the United States, and of other species of the same genus, as the Mexican or red-shafted flicker, C. mexican us, or the gilded flicker, C. chrysoides. Flicker, or Golden-winged Woodpecker ( Colaptes auratus). The common flicker has the under surfaces of the wings and tail mostly golden-yellow, a profusion of round black spots on the light ground of the under parts, a black pесtoral shield, a scarlet nuchal crescent, and in the male black mustaches. It is about 12 inches long and 20 in extent of wings. It nests in holes of trees and lays numerous crystal white eggs. Also called yucker, high holder, yellow-winged woodpecker, and pigeon - woodpecker. flickeringly (flik'er-ing-li), adv. In a flickering manner. IMG:content-1494.png:[blocks in formation] Specifically-2. One who or that which moves swiftly; an animal, a person, or a thing that exhibits or is capable of great speed: as, he drove a span of fliers; the locomotive was a flier. [Colloq.] A moderate rider, not being an athlete or a flier on the one hand, nor exceptionally weak on the other, can, when he is in practice, get over in an hour seven or eight miles of ground on a tricycle. Bury and Hillier , Cycling, p. 6. The "Wonder," Shrews bury and London coach, achieved for itself an enviable reputation as a flyer of the first order, and seemed determined not to be outdone by its formidable adversary of the iron-road without a struggle. First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 129. 3. One who flees; a fugitive; a runaway. So, now the gates are ope: - now prove good seconds; 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them, Not for the fliers. Shak., Cor., i. 4. With courage charge, with comeline retire, Make good their ground, and then relieve their guard, Withstand the ent'rer, then pursue the Ayer, New form their battle, shifting ev'ry ward. Drayton, Barons' Wars, ii. stairs; in the plural, stairs composed of straight flights: opposed to winding stairs.-6. A financial venture; a speculative investment: applied to a purchase of stock by one not a regular buyer, in hope of immediate profit: as, to take a flier in Wall street. [U. S.] There are comparatively few "lambs shorn" there, and the temptation to take a flyer in the market does not a ail the average citizen. New Princeton Rev. , V. 328. 7. A small handbill. Also called dodger . [U.S.] flier-lathe (fli'er-lāh), n. In weaving , a lay, lathe, or batten for beating up the weft into the shed and compacting it; specifically, a suspended lathe, as distinguished from the batten in a frame journaled below. E. H. Knight. fligger (flig'er), n. [Also fliggur ; fligge , an earlier form of flidge , fledge , a., + -er1.] A young bird just fledged. [Prov. Eng.]