Chapter Flame-colored to Flash of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Flap tile

, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip. — Flap valve (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve.

Flap
(Flap), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flapped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flapping ] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E. flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]

1. To beat with a flap; to strike.

Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.

Pope.

2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.] W. Cartwright.

Flap
(Flap), v. i.

1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

The crows flapped over by twos and threes.

Lowell.

2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing. Gay.

Flapdragon
(Flap"drag`on) n.

1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

2. The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson.

Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night.

C. Kingsley.

Flapdragon
(Flap"drag`on), v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]

See how the sea flapdragoned it.

Shak.

Flap-eared
(Flap"-eared`) a. Having broad, loose, dependent ears. Shak.

Flapjack
(Flap"jack`) n.

1. A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

2. A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover. [Prov. Eng.]

Flap-mouthed
(Flap"-mouthed`) a. Having broad, hangling lips. [R.] Shak.

Flapper
(Flap"per) n.

1. One who, or that which, flaps.

2. See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley.

Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate

Flare
(Flare) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring.] [Cf. Norw. flara to blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E. flash, or flacker.]

1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.