| flaw | 1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. "This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws." (Shak) 2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. "Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?" (South) 3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. "And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw." (Dryden) 4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. "Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw." (Milton) "Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn." (Tennyson) Synonym: Blemish, fault, imoerfection, spot, speck. Origin: OE. Flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. Flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. Vlaag gust of wind, Norw. Flage, flaag, and E. Flag a flat stone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| flawter | To scrape o pare, as a skin. Origin: Cf. Flay. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flax | 1. <botany> A plant of the genus Linum, especially. The L. Usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fibre of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed. 2. The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. Earth flax, amianthus. <botany> New Zealand flax See Flax-plant. Origin: AS. Fleax; akin to D. Vlas, OHG. Flahs, G. Flachs, and prob. To flechten to braid, plait,m twist, L. Plectere to weave, plicare to fold, Gr. To weave, plait. See Ply. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flax-dresser's disease | <disease> Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by inhalation of particles of unprocessed flax; a form of byssinosis. See: byssinosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flax-plant | <botany> A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fibre which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flaxseed | The seed of the flax; linseed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flaxseed oil | <chemical> The fixed oil obtained from the dried ripe seed of linseed, linum usitatissimum (l. Linaceae). It is used as an emollient in liniments, pastes, and medicinal soaps, and in veterinary medicine as a laxative. It is also called flaxseed oil. Pharmacological action: cathartic, emollients. Chemical name: Linseed oil (12 Dec 1998) |
| flaxweed | <botany> See Toadflax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flay | To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. "With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage." (Shak) Origin: OE. Flean, flan, AS. Flean; akin to D. Vlaen, Icel. Fla, Sw. Fla, Dan. Flaae, cf. Lith. Ples to tear, plyszti, v.i, to burst tear; perh. Akin to E. Flag to flat stone, flaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flayer | One who strips off the skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| FLA | large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill |
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| FLA | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
| FLA | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
| FLA | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
| FLA | commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix |
| FLA | an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC |
| FLA | Roman statesman and general who built the Flaminian Way |
| FLA | possible to burn |
| FLA | a genus of agarics |
| FLA | an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are |
| FLA | open pastry filled with fruit or custard |
| FLA | a medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands |