flatus (flatus)

breathing, a breath, flare, blow, breathe, = E. blow1.] 1. A breath; a puff of wind; a pure expulsion of air from the lungs through the throat and mouth. You make the soul, as being a mere flatus , to have a more precarious subsistence even than mere matter itself. Clarke, To Dodwell, p. 31. 2. Wind present in the stomach or intestines; eructation. In tympanites there is a rapid generation of flatus , which overpowers the contractility of the hollow viscera. Quain, Med. Dict., p. 514. 3. Inflation; puffine ; the state of being distended with air, as a tumor. Flatus vocis, the breath of the voice. This phrase is much used to describe the opinion of the early nominalist, Roscellin, whose writings are lost, but who, according to the undisputed testimony of his enemy, Anselm, held that universals (such as man in general) are the breath of the voice. flat-ware (flat' war), n. In ceram., plates, dishes, saucers, and the like, collectively, as distinguished from hollow-ware. flatways (flat'waz), adv. Same as flatwise. It is preferable to place the bricks flatways . C. T. Davis, Bricks, etc., p. 180. flatwise (flat'wiz), adv . [ flat1 +-wise.] With the flat side downward or next to another object; not edgewise. flautino flaughter2 (flå'-, Sc. flächter), r. t. [Sc. also flauchter; a freq. verb; flaughter2 (fla'-, Sc. flächter), n. [Se. also flauchter; ef. flaughter2, r., cut (turf), and flaught2, n., a flake.] A flake; a piece of turf. See flaught2. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] flaughter-spade (fla'-, Sc. flächter-spad), n. Same as dirot - spade. [Scotch.] flaunt, n. See flawn. flaunch (flänch), n. In her., same as flanch, 2. flaunchert, n. See flancher. Flaundrisht, a. Same as Flandrish. flaunt (flänt or flant), v. [Formerly also flant; prob. Scand. The nearest form appears to be Sw. dial. flankt, adj. and adv., loosely, flutteringly (cf. E. flaunt -a - flaunt, a.), of Sw. dial. flakka, waver, prob. = ME. flacken, move to and fro, flutter, palpitate, E. flack, q. v. Cf. G. dial. (Bav.) flandern, flutter, flaunt.] I. in trans. 11. To wave or flutter smartly in the wind. I see not one, within this gla e of mine, Whose fethers flaunt , and flicker in the winde. Gas coigne , Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 63. 2. To make a smart show in apparel or equipment of any kind; make an ostentatious or brazen display; move or act ostentatiously or brazenly; be glaring or gaudy: sometimes with an indefinite it: as, a flaunting show. My neighbour Flam borough's rosy daughters, flaunting with red top-knots. Goldsmith, Vicar, ix. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope , E ay on Man, iv. 196. Can those neat black clothes give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that overworn suit? Lamb , Elia, Old China. Bryant , Day-Dream. The poppy flaunted , for 'twas May. II. trans. To display ostentatiously, impudently, or offensively: offensively: as, to flaunt rich apparel. Was this a time for these to flaunt their pride? flaunt (flänt or flånt), n. flaunting. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. [ Its posture in the earth was flatwise , and parallel to the site of the stratum in which it was reposited. Woodward, Fo ils. flatworm (flat'werm), n. [ flat1 + worm.] A act of platyhelminth; one of the Platy helm int hes , as a tapeworm: a name applied to animals of the planarian group. See cut under Dendrocæla . flauchter (flächter), v . and n. See flaughter2 . 2. Anything displayed for show; finery. [Rare.] IMG:content-1463.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] flaught, v . t. An obsolete variant of flay1 . flaught1 1 (flat, Sc. flächt), n . [Sc., also written flaucht , flought , flocht ; = E. flight , flight , 3. A boast; a vaunt; a brag. Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts , behold The sternne of his presence? Shak ., W. T., iv. 3. flyght , fluht , etc., flyht , flight: see flight1 .] 1. A flight; a flock (of birds). A flaucht o' dows. Edinburgh Mag . , Sept., 1818, p. 155. 2. A flutter, as that of a bird; a flapping. He was ever noo and then getting up wi' a great flaught of his arms, like a goose wi' its wings jumping up a stair. Galt, Sir Andrew Wylie, II. 5. flaught2 (flat, Sc. flächt), n. [E. dial. also flaut, also flaight (aturf); IMG:content-1464.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A flake (of fire); a spark; a flash. A flaght [printed slaght ] of fire. Cursor Mundi , 1. 17342. 3. A handful. [Scotch.] -4. A flake or roll of wool carded ready for spinning.-5. pl . Tools for carding wool, used chiefly in Scotland. Ure , Dict., II. 402. - A flaught o' fire, a flash of lightning. [Scotch.] There was neither moon nor stars-naething but a flaucht o' fire every now and than, to keep the road by. Blackwood's Mag . , Nov., 1820, p. 202. Dost thou come hither with thy flourishes, Thy flaunts , and faces, to abuse men's manners? Fletcher ( and another ), False One, iii. 3. flaunt-a-flauntt (flänt'a-flänt'), a . [ flaunt + a3, prep ., + flaunt ; cf. a flaunt.] Flauntingly displayed. High copt hattes, and fethers flaunt a flaunt. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), Epil., p. 83. flaunter (flän'- or flân'tèr), n. One who flaunts. flaunting (flän'- or flân'ting), p . a . [Ppr. of flaunt, r.] Same as flaunty, 1. See the proud tulip's flaunting cup, That flames in glory for an hour. O. W. Holmes, Spring has come. flauntingly (flän'- or flân'ting-li), adv. In a flaunting manner. A gem was now [in the time of the Ptolemies] a thing to be worn flauntingly . Encyc. Brit., II. 366. flaunty (flän'- or flân'ti), a . [ flaunt + -y1.] 1. Ostentatious; vulgarly or offensively showy; gaudy. Also flaunting . Your common men Build pyramids, gauge railroads, reign, reap, dine, And dust the flaunty carpets of the world For kings to walk on, or our senators. Mrs. Browning. flaught (flat, Se. flächt), r. t. [ flauchter , flochter ; a freq. verb; flaught1 , flight, flying, flutter, perhaps suggested by flacker or flutter , with which, however, it has no connec- tion.] I. trans. To frighten. [Prov. Eng.] II. in trans. To flutter; shine fitfully; flicker. [Scotch.] 1 (fla'-, Sc. fläch'ter), v. [Sc. written 2. Capricious; unsteady; eccentric. [Scotch.] Whiles he wad hae seen a glance o' the light frae the other hand. door o' the cave flaughtering against the hazels on the Scott , Antiquary, xxi. +-ity.] Flatulence. In this disease it were better for to repre e the said windene e and flatuositie . Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxviii. 19. v.] A fluttering motion. [Scotch.] Down frae the scra-built shed the swallows pop, Wi lazy flaughter on the gutter dub. She was a flaunty woman, and liked well to have a good humoured jíbe or jeer. Galt , Annals of the Parish, p. 198. flaut (flat), n. See flaught2 . flautando (It. pron. flä fläö-tän'do), a. [It., ppr. of flautare, play the flute: see flutel, v.] In violin playing, with harmonies or flageolet-tones. flauta to (fläö-tä to), a. [It., pp. of flautare, play the flute: see flautando.] Same as flau tan do.