FLUE PIPE
Flue pipe. (Music)
Defn: A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; — distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square.
FLUEWORK
Flue"work`, n. (Mus.)
Defn: A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; — in distinction from reedwork.
FLUEY
Flue"y, a. Etym: [2d Flue.]
Defn: Downy; fluffy. [R.]
FLUFF
Fluff, n. Etym: [Cf. 2d Flue.
Defn: Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
FLUFFY
Fluff"y, a. [Compar. Fluffier; superl. Fluffiest.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
"The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray.
The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest
little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens.
— Fluff"i*ness, n.