2. (Croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Flinch
(Flinch), n. The act of flinching.
Flincher
(Flinch"er) n. One who flinches or fails.
Flinchingly
(Flinch"ing*ly), adv. In a flinching manner.
Flindermouse
(Flin"der*mouse`) n.[OE. vlindre moth (cf. D. vlinder butterfly) + E. mouse. Cf. Flittermouse,
Flinders.] (Zoöl.) A bat; a flittermouse.
Flinders
(Flin"ders) n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken
pieces.] Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew.
Sir W. Scott. Fling
(Fling) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flung (flung); p. pr. & vb. n. Flinging.] [OE. flingen, flengen, to
rush, hurl; cf. Icel. flengia to whip, ride furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. flänga to romp, Dan. flenge
to slash.]
1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as,
to fing a stone into the pond.
'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
Dryden.
He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung.
Dryden.
I know thy generous temper well.
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire.
Addison. 2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
The sun begins to fling
His flaring beams.
Milton.
Every beam new transient colors flings.
Pope. 3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.
Walpole.
To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. — To fling away, to reject; to discard.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
Shak. —
To fling down. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove
into the arena as a challenge.
This question so flung down before the guests, . . .
Was handed over by consent of all
To me who had
not spoken.
Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. — To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling
accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. — To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to
defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. — To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with
violence; as, to fling open a door. — To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as,
to fling out hard words against another. — To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
Fling
(Fling) v. i.
