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Flat, dead Drink; also dull Poetry or Discourse.

Flavour, Scem of Fruits; as Peaches, Quinces, &c. Or of Wines, as Rhenish, Canary, &c.

Flaunting, tearing-fine. To Flaunt it, to Spark it, or Gallant it.

Flaw, a water-flaw and a crack in Chrystals, as well as a speck in Gemms and Stones.

Flaw'd, c. Drunk.

Flay, to flea or skinn. He'll flay a Flint, of a meer Scrat or Miser.

Flear, to grinn. A Plearing Fool, a grinning silly Fellow.

Fleece, to Rob, Plunder or Strip; also Wooll, the true Golden-Fleece of England, a clear Spring, or Flowing Fountain of Wealdt.

Fleet, swift of Wing or Fooc, in flight or Course, used not only of Birds upon the Wing, but of winged Arrows, resembling them in Flight.

Flegmatic, dull, heavy. A Flegmatic Fellow, a drows yinsipid Tool, an ill Companion

Flesh-broker, a Match-maker; also a Bawd; between whom but little difference, for they both (usually) take Money.

Flibustiers, West-Indian Pirates, or Buckaneers, Free-booters.

Flicker, c. a Drinking Glass. Flicker snapt, c. the Glass is b oken Nim the Flicker, c. Stea tbe Glass. Rum Flicker, c. a large Glass or Rummer. Queer Flicker, c a Green or ordinary Glass. To Flicker, to grin or flout. Flickering, grinning or laughing in a Man's Face.

Flicking, c. to cut, cutting

Flick me some Panam and Cash, c. cut me some Bread and Cheese.

Flick the Peeter, c. cut off the Cloak-bag or Port-manteau.

Flip, Sea Drink, ofsmall