Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLESH'MEAT, n.

Animal food; the flesh of animals prepared or used for food. Swift.

FLESH'MENT, n.

Eagerness gained by a successful initiation. Shak.

FLESH'MON-GER, n.

One who deals in flesh; a procurer; a pimp. [Little used.] Shak.

FLESH'POT, n.

A vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence, plenty of provisions. Exod. xvi.

FLESH'QUAKE, n.

A trembling of the flesh. [Not used.] B. Jonson.

FLESH'Y, a.

1. Full of flesh; plump; musculous. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.
2. Fat; gross; corpulent; as, a fleshy man.
3. Corporeal. Eccles.
4. Full of pulp; pulpous; plump; as fruit. Bacon.

FLET, pp.

of fleet. Skimmed. [Not used.] Mortimer.

FLETCH, v.t. [Fr. fleche.]

To feather an arrow. Warburton.

FLETCH'ED, pp.

Feathered, as an arrow.

FLETCH'ER, n. [Fr. fleche, It. freccia, an arrow.]

An arrow-maker; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. Hence the name of Fletcher. But the use of the word as an appellative has ceased with the practice of archery.

FLETCH'ING, ppr.

Feathering.

FLE-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. fletus and fero.]

Producing tears.

FLETZ, a. [G. flötz, a layer.]

In geology, the fletz formations, so called, consist of rocks which lie immediately over the transition rocks. These formations are so called because the rocks usually appear in beds more nearly horizontal than the transition class. These formations consist of sandstone, limestone, gypsum, calamine, chalk, coal, and trap. They contain abundance of petrifactions, both of animal arid vegetable origin. Good.

FLEUR-DE-LIS, n. [Fleur de lis. Fr. flower of the lily; corrupted in English to flower de luce.]

1. A bearing in heraldry, representing a lily, emblematic, of royalty.
2. In botany, the Iris.

FLEW, pret.

of fly. The people flew upon the spoil. 1 Sam. xiv.

FLEW, n.

The large chaps of a deep-mouthed hound. Hanmer.

FLEW'ED, a.

Chapped; mouthed; deep-mouthed. Shak.

FLEX, v.t. [L. flecto, flexus.]

To bend; as, a muscle flexes the arm.

FLEX-AN'I-MOUS, a. [from L.]

Having power to change the mind. [Not used.] Howell.

FLEX'ED, a.

Bent; as, a limb in a flexed position. Hosack.

FLEX-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Flexible.]

1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as, the flexibility of rays of light. Newton.
2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion, or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as, flexibility of temper.

FLEX'I-BLE, a. [L. flexibilis, from flecto, flexi, to bend, Fr. flechir, coinciding with G. flechten, to braid, D. vlegten. These words have the same elements as L. plico.]

1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as, a flexible rod; a flexible plant.
2. Capable of yielding to entreaties, arguments, or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; not inexorable. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm.
3. Ductile; manageable; tractable; as, the tender and flexible minds of youth. Flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable.
4. That may be turned or accommodated. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.

FLEX'I-BLE-NESS, n.

1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; casiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.
2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as, the flexibleness of a courtier.
3. Ductility; manageableness; tractableness; as, the flexibleness of youth.

FLEX'I-BLY, adv.

In a flexible manner.

FLEX'ILE, a. [L. flexilis.]

Pliant; pliable; easily bent; yielding to power, impulse, or moral force. Thomson.