4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a
flatulent vanity.
He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry.
Dryden.
Flat"u*lent*ly, adv. In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.
Flat`u*os"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. flatuositÈ.] Flatulence. [Obs.] Bacon.
Flat"u*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. flatueux.] Windy; generating wind. [Obs.]
Bacon.
||Fla"tus (?), n.; pl. E. Flatuses (#), L. Flatus. [L., fr. flare to
||blow.] 1. A breath; a puff of wind. Clarke.
2. Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
Quincy.
Flat"ware` (?), n. Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that
are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware. [Webster 1913
Suppl.]
Flat"wise` (?), a. or adv. With the flat side downward, or next to
another object; not edgewise.
Flat"worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes;
also, sometimes applied to the planarians.