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- English Word Flake Definition A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
- English Word Flake Definition A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
- English Word Flake Definition A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
- English Word Flake Definition A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- English Word Flake Definition To form into flakes.
- English Word Flake Definition To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
- English Word Flaked Definition of Flake
- English Word Flakiness Definition The state of being flaky.
- English Word Flaking Definition of Flake
- English Word Flaky Definition Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- English Word Flam Definition A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
- English Word Flam Definition To deceive with a falsehood.
- English Word Flambeau Definition A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
- English Word Flambeaus Definition of Flambeau
- English Word Flambeaux Definition of Flambeau
- English Word Flamboyant Definition Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
- English Word Flamboyer Definition A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
- English Word Flame Definition A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
- English Word Flame Definition Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
- English Word Flame Definition Ardor of affection; the passion of love.