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FLAKE, n. [L. floccus; Gr. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.] 1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.3. A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow. Job. 41. 4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.Little flakes of scurf.6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.FLAKE, v.t. To form into flakes. FLAKE, v.i. To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.
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FLAKE, n. [L. floccus; Gr. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.] 1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.3. A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow. Job. 41. 4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.Little flakes of scurf.6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.FLAKE, v.t. To form into flakes. FLAKE, v.i. To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off. | FLAKE, n. [Sax. flace; D. vlaak, a hurdle for wool; vlok, a flock, a flake, a tuft; G. flocke, fluge, id.; Dan. flok, a herd, and lok, a lock or flock of wool; L. floccus; Gr. πλοκη, πλοκος; It. fiocco; Ir. flocas. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. πλεκω. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.]- A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried. Massachusetts.
- A layer or stratum; as, a flake of flesh or tallow. Job xli.
- A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.
- Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.
Little flakes of scurf. Addison.
- A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves. Encyc.
White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required. Encyc.
FLAKE, v.i.To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off. FLAKE, v.t.To form into flakes. Pope. | Flake
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A
loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock;
lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or
fish.
- To form into flakes.
- To separate in
flakes] to peel or scale off.
- A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks
made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish
and other things.
- A little particle of lighted or
incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
- A small stage hung over a
vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
- A sort of carnation with
only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
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Flake FLAKE, noun [Latin floccus; Gr. flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with Latin plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.] 1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake lock or flock of snow. 2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried. 3. A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow. Job 41:23. 4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off. 5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales. Little flakes of scurf. 6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves. White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required. FLAKE, verb transitive To form into flakes. FLAKE, verb intransitive To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.
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