The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
Boyle.
5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or
bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a
fanfare.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Shak.
6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the
flourish of a sword.
Flour"ish*er (?), n. One who flourishes.
Flour"ish*ing*ly, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
Flour"y (?), a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
Dickens.
Flout (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] [OD.
fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French.
See Flute.] To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Phillida flouts me.
Walton.
Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
Byron.
Flout, v. i. To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to
fleer; -- often with at.
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.
Swift.
Flout, n. A mock; an insult.
Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.
Tennyson.
Flout"er (?), n. One who flouts; a mocker.
Flout"ing*ly, adv. With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover
floutingly.
Flow (fl), obs. imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
Flow (fl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fld); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.]
[AS. flwan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fla to
deluge, Gr. plw`ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float,
fleet. √80. Cf. Flood.] 1. To move with a continual change of
place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or
circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears
flow from the eyes.