Lexicon: flower – fly

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flower, v.

flown, adj. [see fly, v.]

Scattered; blown in the air and spread.

fluctuate, v. [L. fluctuare, undulate.]

Shift in time; move back and forth in meaning and understanding.

fluctuation, n. [see fluctuate.]

fluent, adj. [L.]

  1. Referring to speech; speaking correctly with no errors; speaking them with smoothness and mastery.
  2. Freely moving with no interruption; mobile; flowing smoothly.

fluently, adv. [see fluent.]

flurriedly, adv. [onomatopoeic from “flurry”.]

Agitated; hurried; hastily.

flute (-s), n. [OFr.]

Wind instrument.

flutter (-ed, -s), v. [OE 'float, flow'; see fleet.]

fly (flies), n. [OE.]

  1. Winged insect; bug of the zoological genus Musca with transparent wings.
  2. Nuisance; trivial; annoyance; harmless fact of life.