flatcar (flatkar)

A railroad-car consisting of a platform without sides or top; a platform car. flat-clam (flat'klam), n. Semele decisa , an edi- ble species of clam. [California, U. S.] flate (flat), v . t .; pret. and pp. flated , ppr. flat- ing. [L. flatus , pp. of flare , breathe, blow, E. blow1.] To produce with flatus, or with simple unintonated breath. [Rare.] flatfish (flat fish), n. Any fish of the suborder Hetero somata : so called from the flattened bi- G. Herbert. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. 3. In music , below the true pitch. - Flat aft ( naut . ). See aft1.- To fall flat, to fail completely, usually in spite of strenuous efforts or great expectation; not to succeed in attracting interest, purchasers, etc.: as, the book or the play fell flat ; the shares fell flat on the market. - To haul ly compre ed, and one side is colorle or whitish, while the other is dark and variously marked. The typical flatfishes constitute the family Pleuronectidæ, and include many species of great economic importance, as the halibut, turbot, plaice, sole, flounder, etc. A flatfish is not really flat (that is, depre ed or flattened out horizontally), but is, on the contrary, thin (that is, extremely compre ed Inconstant; veering = E. blowl: see flatus.] with the wind. Scott. flat-iron (flat'i"èrn), n. An iron for smoothing cloth. It is made very hot and then pa ed quickly and firmly over the dampened surface of the fabric to be smoothed. Also sad - iron, or simply iron.