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Flat
·vi To fall form the pitch.
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flat
A bubble, gull, or silly fellow.
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flat
1) In cant language, a foolish fellow; a simpleton.--Worcester.
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flat
In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, a...
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Headed
·adj Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
II. Headed ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Head>>.
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Alkali flat
·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...
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Flat foot
·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...
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Flat-bottomed
·adj Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
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Flat-cap
·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...
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Flat-footed
·adj Firm-footed; determined.
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flat pea
n.
a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae.
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pea, flat
n.
See flat pea.
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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...
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flat-footed
Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...
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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...
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flat-aback
When all the sails are blown with their after-surface against the mast, so as to give stern-way.
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flat-aft
The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...
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flat-bottomed
When a vessel's lower frame has but little upward inclination.
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flat calm
When there is no perceptible wind at sea.
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flat-fish
The Pleuronectidæ, a family of fishes containing the soles, flounders, turbots, &c., remarkable for ...
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flat-nails
Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...
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flat seam
The two edges or selvedges of canvas laid over each other and sewed down.
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flat seizing
This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns.
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Addle-headed
·adj ·Alt. of Addle-pated.
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Beetle-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Bluff-headed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
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Buckler-headed
·adj Having a head like a buckler.
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Buffle-headed
·adj Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
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Clear-headed
·adj Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
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Cool-headed
·adj Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
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Dog-headed
·adj Having a head shaped like that of a dog;
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Dunder-headed
·adj Thick-headed; stupid.
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Feather-headed
·adj Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
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Giddy-headed
·adj Thoughtless; unsteady.
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Gross-headed
·adj Thick-skulled; stupid.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Heavy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Idle-headed
·adj Foolish; stupid.
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Janus-headed
·adj Double-headed.
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Light-headed
·adj Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
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Mad-headed
·adj Wild; crack-brained.
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Muddy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Mushroom-headed
·adj Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a m...
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Nail-headed
·adj Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
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Nott-headed
·adj Having the hair cut close.
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Open-headed
·adj <<Bareheaded>>.
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Pig-headed
·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
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Pudding-headed
·adj <<Stupid>>.
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Puzzle-headed
·adj Having the head full of confused notions.
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Rattle-headed
·adj Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
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Rug-headed
·adj Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
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Sheep-headed
·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
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Shock-headed
·adj Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
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Soft-headed
·adj Weak in intellect.
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Thick-headed
·adj Having a thick skull; stupid.
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Thorn-headed
·adj Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
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Triple-headed
·adj Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
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Wagon-headed
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beetle-headed
Dull, stupid.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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buffle-headed
Confused, stupid.
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chuckle-headed
Stupid, thick-headed.
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hulver-headed
Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid ...
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mutton-headed
Stupid.
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pig-headed
Obstinate.
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totty-headed
Giddy, hare-brained.
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watery-headed
Apt to shed tears.
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dansey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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dausey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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stag-headed
see randle-piked.
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bluff-headed
When a ship has but a small rake forward on, being built with her stem too straight up.
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chowder-headed
Stupid, or batter-brained.
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chuckle-headed
Clownishly stupid; lubberly.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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crowdy-headed jock
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pudding-headed fellow
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
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woolly-headed grass
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an indigenousAustralian grass, Andropogon bombycinus, R. Br.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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hammer-headed shark
The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...
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saucer-headed bolts
Those with very flat heads.
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