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fleeting, a. impermanent, transient, transitory, evanescent, ephemeral, fugitive, temporary.
flesh, n. meat, carnage; pulp (of fruit); carnality, sensual appet.i.tes; carrion (decaying flesh). a.s.sociated words: incarnate, incarnation, excarnate, excarnation, carnate, carneous, trichina, trichinosis, carna.s.sial, carnification, carnify.
flesh-eaters, n. pl. Carnivora.
flesh-eating, a. carnivorous, sarcophagous.--n. sarcophagy.
flesh-eating animal. carnivore, sarcophagan, sarcophile.
fles.h.i.+ness, n. corpulence, obesity, plumpness, _embonpoint._ See fatness.
fleshliness n. carnality, sensuality.
fleshly, a. carnal, sensual, sensuous.
fleshy, a. corpulent, fat, portly, obese, plump.
flexibility, n. pliability, pliancy, suppleness, litheness, ductility, compliance.
flexible, a. pliable, supple, flexile, pliant, lithe, limber; compliant, yielding. Antonyms: inflexible, incompliant.
flight, n. flying; exodus, hegira; fleeing, absconding.
flighty, a. volatile, capricious, mercurial, giddy, fickle.
flimflam, n. trick, deception, lie.--v. trick, deceive.
flimsy, a. superficial, unsubstantial, weak, feeble, shallow, frivolous.
flinch, v. shrink, wince, recoil, blench, withdraw.
flinders, n. pl. splinters, fragments.
flinty, a. unimpressible, impenetrable, adamantine, unyielding.
flippant, a. voluble, glib, fluent; pert, malapert, forward.
flirt, n. coquette, jilt, jill.--v. coquet, philander.
flirtation, n. coquetry.
flirtatious, a. coquettish.
float, n. raft; buoy.
floating, n. flotation, flotage, supernatation.--a. supernatant.
flock, n. covey, herd, bevy, drove, pack, lot, group, brood, litter.
a.s.sociated Words: gregarious, gregal, gregariously, gregariousness.
flog, v. See whip.
flood, n. deluge, inundation, overflow, cataclysm, freshet.
a.s.sociated Words: antediluvial, antediluvian, diluvial, diluvian, alluvium, alluvial, alluvion.
flood, v. inundate, deluge, overflow, submerge.
flood-gate, n. sluice-gate.
floor, v. prostrate, fell, overthrow; embarra.s.s, nonplus.
floor, n. planching, pavement; story, loft.
floor timber. joist.
floral ornament. anthemion, boughpot, palmette.
florid, a. flushed, rubicund. See red.
florist, n. floriculturist.
flounce, n. ruffle, furbelow, frill.--v. flounder.
flour, n. a.s.sociated Words: farinaceous, farina, gluten, meal, aleurometer, aleuromancy, stive, dredge, bolt.
flour box. dredging box.
flourish, v. thrive; wave, brandish.
flourish, n. embellishment; curlycue, paraph; fanfare, call; parade, show, display; brandis.h.i.+ng, waving.
flout, v. mock, jeer, gibe, sneer, deride.
flow, v. circulate; proceed, emanate, issue. Antonyms: stagnate, ebb.
flower, n. blossom, bloom; floret, floweret (little flower).
a.s.sociated Words: floral, floricultural, floriculture, florist, floriculturist, florilege, florification, floriferous, botany, botanical, botanist, botanize, inflorescence, estivation, anther, petal, calyx, corolla, sepal, anthesis, anthography, anthoid, antholite, anthology, anthomania, anthophagous, anthophilous, anthotaxy, bouquet, bract, corona, corymb, cyme, chloranthy, efflorescence, Flora, perianth, pistil, pistillate, staminate, pollen, prefloration raceme, reflorescence, pollinate, pollination, stamen, stigma, umbel, verticil, verticillate, whorl, spadix, spathe, floriated, floriation.
flower beds. a.s.sociated Words: parterre, platband, terrace.
flowering, a. phaenogamous, phaenogamian.--n. inflorescence
flowering plants. Phaenogamia.
flowerless, a. cryptogamous.
flowerless plants. Cryptogamia.
