Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flitch (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
(2) - Flitch (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
(3) - Flitch (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

(1) - Flitter (v. i.) A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
(2) - Flitter (v. t.) To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
(3) - Flitter (v. i.) To flutter.

(1) - Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
(2) - Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
(3) - Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
(4) - Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
(5) - Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
(6) - Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
(7) - Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
(8) - Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(9) - Float (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
(10) - Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
(11) - Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
(12) - Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
(13) - Float (v. i.) A coal cart.
(14) - Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
(15) - Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
(16) - Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
(17) - Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
(18) - Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
(19) - Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
(20) - Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.