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  • fling
    [OED, to hurl as a missile: "They flung darts"] v. to shoot (an arrow): 1918 Jack fling one of his arrow
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  • flick
    v. See FLEET.
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  • flick
    n, [probably from OED fig (of tobacco) a small piece, perhaps influenced by flake; cf. FIG TOBACCO] a piece of tobacco: 1918 He
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  • fleshman 'eas, the fleshman
    [from Fleischmann's Yeast, a brand name] n. yeast: You make the bread rise with fleshtnan 'eat' (Nassau). Today you got the
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  • fleet
    (Andros); flick (Aeldins) [cf. Scots fleat v. pret. scolded CSD] v. to humiliate someone by reminding him of the good deeds
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  • flavouring meat
    n. meat with a sharp taste, often used to provide flavor rather than substance: 1976 [Breadfruit] boiled. , .and flavoured with
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  • flattening
    [cf, OED flatten to depress (the spirits) ohs. →1776] adj. depressing: It is flattening to think how many children neglect their parents
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  • flat-row
    n. a style of plaiting hair in which the braid is turned in and has a flatter appearance than the GUINEA-ROW, which is
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  • flat
    [Vir. idem (Highfield p.c.); OED, to make flat.. now chiefly in technical use] v. to make flat, such as a tire:
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  • flamper, flamber
    [cf. Sra. fambow torch WST; OED flambeau torch, also US dial. ADD; cf. Scots, West, nautical flamboy idem CSD, DSS, and
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