flatting (flating)

[Verbal n. of flat, v.] 1. A method of preserving unburnished gilding, by touching it with size; also, the coating of size laid over the gilding.-2. A mode of house-painting in which the paint, from mixture with turpentine, leaves the work flat or without glo .-3. The rolling out of metal into sheets by the pre ure of rolls or cylinders. -4. In leather - manuf., a method of dre ing shaved hides.-5. In sheet -gla manuf., the operation of flattening.-6. In music, the act of depre ing a tone below a true or given pitch. flatting-coat (flat'ing-kōt), n. The finishing coat on a painted wall, where four or five coats are laid on: so called because it dries without glo . It is of pure white lead diluted only with spirits of turpentine. See flatting, 2. flatting-furnace (flat'ing-fernās), n. Same as flattening-furnace.