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[ME. flatten, dash, throw, Ryzt with that he swouned, Til Vigilate the veille vette water at hus eyen, And flatte on hus face. Piers Plowman (C), viii. 58. II. in trans. To dash; rush. Thei were at greet myschief, for the saisnes were so many that the i moste flat in to the foreste wolde the i or noon, ffor as soone as the kynge Orienx was come, he kepte hem so shorte that many were deed and taken. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 275. flatly or vertically expanded), and has both eyes on one side, not on top. It swims and lies with its eyele and colorle side downward, thus appearing as if spread out horizontally.