flagra

Plural of flagrum. flagrancet (fla grans), n. [ IMG:content-1420.png:[blocks in formation] See Sappho, at her toilet's greasy task, Then i uing flagrant to an evening mask. Pope , Moral E ays, ii. 26 (early ed.). Hence-2. Ardent; eager. A thing which filleth the mind with comfort and heavenly delight, stirreth up flagrant desires and affections, correspondent unto that which the words contain. Hooker , Eccles. Polity. Cæsar's was not a smothered, but a flagrant , ambition, kindling first by nature, and blown by nece ity. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 242. He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To serve his country. flag. See flags. flagrum (fla'grum), n.; pl. flagra (-grä). [L., a scourge: see flagellum, flail.] 1. In Rom. an tiq., a scourge. See flagellum.-2. In zoöl., a part of the jaw-feet of some crustaceans. They have neither flagrum nor palp. Eng. Cyc., Nat. Hist. (1855), III. 86. flag-share (flag's har), n. The share of the commander-in-chief in all captures made by ve els within the limits of his command. flag-ship (flag's hip), n. The ship which bears the flag-officer of a squadron or fleet, and on which his flag is displayed. flag-side (flag's id), n. That side of a split haddock which is free from bone. [Scotch.] flagstaff (flag's taf), n. A pole or staff on which a flag is displayed. flag-station (flag'stā"shon), n. A railroad-station where trains stop only when a signal is displayed. [U. S.] flagstone (flag's ton), n. 1. A grit or sandstone naturally separating in layers of suitable thickne for flagging; any rock which splits or is capable of being readily split into tabular or flags. Usually the layers are parallel to the bedding or stratification of the rock; but there are cases in which the lamination of the material available for flagging is the result of cleavage or jointing. flake be the swingle or striking part of the military flail. See war - flail and morning - star. flailyt, a. [ flaint. An obsolete past participle of flay1. Chaucer. flair1t, v. An obsolete spelling of flare . flair2 (flar), n . [ME. flayre , odor, flair , odor, F. flair , scent (in hunting), = Cat. flair a , f., = Pg. cheiro , m., odor, flairer , emit an odor, F. flairer , tr., scent, smell, fleurer , intr., smell (in form confused with fleur , a flower), = Pr. flairar = Cat. flairar = Pg. cheirar , fragrare , intr., emit an odor, whence E. fra- grant, q. v.] 1t. Odor; smell. Alle swete savours, that men may fele, Of alkyn thing that here savours wele, War noght bot as stynk in regard of that flayre That es in the cete [city] of heven so fayre. Hampole , Prick of Conscience, 1. 9017. In which in tabular plates IMG:content-1421.png:[blocks in formation] flaik (flak), n. See flake2 . 2. [Mod. F. use.] In hunting, scent; sense of smell: used figuratively in the extract. dis per addition to the industry and curacao and insight, and a flair which always leads him right. N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 99.