FLOURISH. To take a flourish; to enjoy a woman in a hasty
manner, to take a flyer. See FLYER.
TO FLOUT. To jeer, to ridicule.
FLUMMERY. Oatmeal and water boiled to a jelly; also
compliments, neither of which are over-nourishing.
FLUSH IN THE POCKET. Full of money. The cull is
flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
FLUSTERED. Drunk.
FLUTE. The recorder of a corporation; a recorder was an
antient musical instrument.
TO FLUX. To cheat, cozen, or over-reach; also to salivate.
To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it.
FLY. Knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or proceeding. The rattling cove is fly; the coachman knows what we are about.
FLY. A waggon. CANT.
FLY-BY-NIGHT. You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted on brooms.