Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLAG-EL-LA'TION, n. [L. flagello, to beat or whip, to flog, from flagellum, a whip, scourge or flail, D. vlegel, G. flegel, Fr. fleau. See Flail and Flog.]

A beating or whipping; a flogging; the discipline of the scourge. Garth.

FLAG'GED, pp.

Laid with flat stones.

FLAG'GI-NESS, n.

Laxity; limberness; want of tension.

FLAG'GING, ppr.

Growing weak; drooping; laying with flat stones.

FLAG'GY, a.

1. Weak; flexible; limber; not stiff. Dryden.
2. Weak in taste; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. Bacon.
3. Abounding with flags, the plant.

FLA-GI'TIOUS, a. [L. flagitium, a scandalous crime, probably from the root of flagrant.]

1. Deeply criminal; grossly wicked; villainous; atrocious; scandalous; as, a flagitious action or crime. South.
2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; wicked; as, a flagitious person. Pope.
3. Marked or infected with scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times. Pope.

FLA-GI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

With extreme wickedness.

FLA-GI'TIOUS-NESS, n.

Extreme wickedness; villainy.

FLAG'ON, n. [L. lagena; Gr. λαγηνος; Ir. clagun; Fr. flacon; Sam. Castel. col. 3013.]

A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick with love. Cant. ii.

FLA'GRAN-CY, n. [See Flagrant.]

1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.
2. Excess; enormity; as, the flagrancy of a crime.

FLA'GRANT, a. [L. flagrans, from flagro, to burn, Gr. φλεγω, φλογοω. In D. flakkeren is to blaze.]

1. Burning; ardent; eager; as, flagrant desires. Hooker.
2. Glowing; red; flushed. See Sapho, at her toilet's greasy task, / Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask. Pope.
3. Red; inflamed. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. [The foregoing senses are unusual.]
4. Flaming in notice; glaring; notorious; enormous; as, a flagrant crime.

FLAGRANTE-BELLO, n. [L.]

The war raging.

FLAGRANTE-DELICTO, n. [L.]

During the perpetration of the crime.

FLA'GRANT-LY, adv.

Ardently; notoriously. Warton.

FLA'GRATE, v.t.

To burn. [Little used.] Greenhill.

FLA-GRA'TION, n.

A burning. [Little used.]

FLAG'STONE, n.

A flat stone for pavement.

FLAG'WORM, n.

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge. Walton.

FLAIL, n. [D. vlegel; G. flegel; L. flagellum; Fr. fleau. We retain the original verb in flog, to strike, to lay on, L. fligo, whence affligo, to afflict; Gr. πληγη, L. plaga, a stroke, or perhaps from the same root as lick and lay. See Lick.]

An instrument for thrashing or beating corn from the ear.

FLAKE, n. [Sax. flace; D. vlaak, a hurdle for wool; vlok, a flock, a flake, a tuft; G. flocke, fluge, id.; Dan. flok, a herd, and lok, a lock or flock of wool; L. floccus; Gr. πλοκη, πλοκος; It. fiocco; Ir. flocas. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. πλεκω. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.]

1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.
2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried. Massachusetts.
3. A layer or stratum; as, a flake of flesh or tallow. Job xli.
4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.
5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales. Little flakes of scurf. Addison.
6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves. Encyc. White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required. Encyc.

FLAKE, v.i.

To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.

FLAKE, v.t.

To form into flakes. Pope.

FLAK-ED, pp.

Formed into flakes.

FLAKE-WHITE, n.

Oxyd of bismuth. Ure.

FLAK-ING, ppr.

Forming into flakes.