Word Meanings - FLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. flänga to romp, Dan. flenge to 1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice:
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furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. flänga to romp, Dan. flenge to 1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. Dryden. He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire. Addison. 2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope. 3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole. To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. -- To fling away, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak. --To fling down. To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. Tennyson. To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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- FLOODER
One who floods anything. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - FLUXATION
The act of fluxing. - FLUXILITY
State of being fluxible. - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - FLORA
The goddess of flowers and spring. - FLAUTIST
A player on the flute; a flutist. - FLORENTINE
Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or - FLOSSIFICATION
A flowering; florification. Craig. - FLAXWEED
See TOADFLAX - FLIPPER
A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc. - FLOTA
A fleet; especially, a - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - FLATTEN
To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - FLET
Skimmed. - FLEAMY
Bloody; clotted. Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston. - FLUENCE
Fluency. Milton. - DEFLOURER
One who deflours; a ravisher. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - SUPERFLUITY
1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. - DEFLUX
Downward flow. Bacon. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon. - DEFLUOUS
Flowing down; falling off. Bailey. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - CHIEFLESS
Without a chief or leader.