Flat burglary as ever was committed.
Shak.
A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
Marston.
8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not
sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or
vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp)
consonant.
Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b). -- Flat cap, cap paper,
not folded. See under Paper. -- Flat chasing, in fine art metal
working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by
dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight. -- Flat chisel, a
sculptor's chisel for smoothing. -- Flat file, a file wider than its
thickness, and of rectangular section. See File. -- Flat nail, a small,
sharp- pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a
tack. Knight. -- Flat paper, paper which has not been folded. -- Flat
rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a
longitudinal sleeper. -- Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined
connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
Raymond. -- Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit. Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band.
Knight. -- Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space. -- Flat stitch, the
process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- Flat tint (Painting), a coat of
water color of one uniform shade. -- To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no
effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as
Walter Scott.
Lord Erskine.
Flat (?), adv. 1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.
Herbert.
2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's
Cant]
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Flat, n. 1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences;
an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract
along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep
rising ground, than upon a flat.
Bacon.
2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or
alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a
strand.
Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the
tide.
Shak.
3. Something broad and flat in form; as: (a) A flat-bottomed boat,
without keel, and of small draught. (b) A straw hat, broad- brimmed and
low-crowned. (c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of
which is a platform without sides; a platform car. (d) A platform on
wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade,
as distinguished from its edge.
5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor
of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein;
also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
Raymond.