Flock"mel (?), adv. [AS. flocm&?;lum. See Meal part.] In a flock; in a
body. [Obs.]
That flockmel on a day they to him went.
Chaucer.
Flock"y, a. Abounding with flocks; floccose.
Floe (fl), n. [Cf. Dan. flag af iis, iisflage, Sw. flaga, flake,
isflaga, isflake. See Flag a flat stone.] A low, flat mass of floating
ice.
Floe rat (Zoˆl.), a seal (Phoca fútida).
Flog (flg), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged (flgd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Flogging (-gng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to
strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.] To beat or
strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated
blows.
Flog"ger (?), n. 1. One who flogs.
2. A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the
bung. Knight.
Flog"ging (?), a. & n. from Flog, v. t.
Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping
castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a
flogging chisel.
Flon (?), n. pl. See Flo. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Flong (? or ?), obs. imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flood (?), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fld; akin to D.
vloed, OS. fld, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth.
fldus; from the root of E. flow. √80. See Flow, v. i.] 1. A great
flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a
river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing
land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood.
Milton.
2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water
in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood,
leads on to fortune.
Shak.
3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light;
a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an
overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of
paper currency.