Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLU'OR-IN, or FLU'OR-INE, n.

An element in the form of a yellowish brown gas, with the odor of chlorine and burnt sugar; one of the acidifying and basifying principles.

FLU-O-SIL'IC-ATE, n. [fluor and silex or silica.]

In chimistry, a compound of fluosilicic acid, with some base.

FLU-O-SI-LIC'IC-AC-ID, n. [FLU-O-SI-LIC'IC AC-ID.]

An acid composed of silicium and fluorine.

FLUR'RI-ED, pp.

Put in agitation.

FLUR'RY, n.

1. A sudden blast or gust, or a light temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind. It is never with us applied to a storm of duration.
2. A sudden shower of short duration; as, a flurry of snow.
3. Agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.

FLUR'RY, v.t.

To put in agitation; to excite or alarm. Swinburne.

FLUR'RY-ING, ppr.

Putting in agitation.

FLUSH, a.

1. Fresh; full of vigor; glowing; bright. Flush as May. Shak.
2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.
3. Free to spend; liberal; prodigal. He is very flush with his money. This is a popular use of the word in America. A flush deck, in seamen's language, is a deck without a half-deck forecastle. [Qu. Russ. ploskei, flat. The sense of spreading naturally results from that of flowing.]

FLUSH, n.

1. A sudden flow of blood to the face; or more generally, the redness of face which proceeds from such an afflux of blood. Hectic constitutions are often known by a frequent flush in the cheeks.
2. Sudden impulse or excitement; sudden glow; as, a flush of joy.
3. Bloom; growth; abundance. Goldsmith.
4. [Fr. and Sp. flux.] A run of cards of the same suit.
5. A term for a number of ducks. Spenser.

FLUSH, n.

In architecture, the continued surface in the same place of two contiguous masses. Brande.

FLUSH, v.i. [G. fliessen, imperf. floss, to flow; D. vlieten, in a different dialect. It coincides in elements with blush, blaze and flash.]

1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
2. To come in haste; to start. B. Jonson.
3. To appear suddenly, as redness or a blush. A blush rose on their cheeks, / Flushing and fading like the changeful play / Of colors on a dolphin. Percival.
4. To become suddenly red; to glow; as, the cheeks flush.
5. To be gay, splendid or beautiful. At once, arrayed / In all the colors of the flushing year, / The garden glows. Thomson.

FLUSH, v.t.

1. To redden suddenly; to cause the blood to rush suddenly into the face. Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay.
2. To elate; to elevate; to excite the spirits; to animate with joy; as, to flush with victory.

FLUSH'ED, pp.

1. 1. Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face. We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed.
2. Elated; excited; animated; as, flushed with joy or success. Heated or excited with strong drink. Sir. W. Temple

FLUSH'ER, n.

The lesser butcher-bird. Chambers.

FLUSH'ING, n.

A glow of red in the face.

FLUSH'ING, ppr.

Overspreading with red; glowing.

FLUSH'ING-LY, adv.

In a flushing manner.

FLUSH'NESS, n.

Freshness. Gauden.

FLUS'TER, n.

Heat; glow; agitation; confusion; disorder.

FLUS'TER, v.i.

To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated.

FLUS'TER, v.t.

To make hot and rosy, as with drinking, to heat; to hurry; to agitate; to confuse. Swift.

FLUS'TER-ED, pp.

Heated with liquor; agitated; confused.

FLUS'TRA, n.

A genus of polyparia.

FLUTE, n. [Fr. flûte; Arm. fleut; D. fluit; G. flöte; Dan. flöjte; Sp. flauta; Port. frauta; It. flauto; L. flo, flatus, to blow, or L. fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]

1. A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.
2. A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute. It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan. It is called also a reed. Encyc.
3. A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota. Encyc. Armed in flute. An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute. Lunier.

FLUTE, v.i.

To play on a flute. Chaucer.