Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flounder (n.) The act of floundering.
(2) - Flounder (v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
(3) - Flounder (n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
(4) - Flounder (n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.

(1) - Flour (v. t.) To sprinkle with flour.
(2) - Flour (v. t.) To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
(3) - Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

(1) - Flourish (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
(2) - Flourish (v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
(3) - Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
(4) - Flourish (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
(5) - Flourish (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(6) - Flourish (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(7) - Flourish (v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
(8) - Flourish (v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
(9) - Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
(10) - Flourish (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
(11) - Flourish (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(12) - Flourish (n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
(13) - Flourish (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
(14) - Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
(15) - Flourish (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
(16) - Flourish (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
(17) - Flourish (v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

(1) - Flourishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flourish