floetz, ffietz, flotz

[Ger. flötz a layer or stratum.] Geol.: In flat, horizontal beds. IMG:content-1779.png:[blocks in formation] gello to whip.] 1. To whip, to lash, to thrash; to chastise with a whip. "How he was flogged or had the luck to escape." Cowper: Tirocinium , 329. *2. To beat, to surpa , to excel. flogger, s . [Eng. flog ; -er.] One who flogs. flog-ging, pr . par., a. & 8. [FLOG, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of thrashing or beating with a whip or lash; the state of being flogged; a whipping. "Mercile flogging soon became an ordinary punishment for political misdemeanors of no very aggravated kind."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iv.