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Flake :: Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc..

Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow..

Snow :: Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes..

Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.

Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

Caned :: Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.

Aphthae :: Aphthae (n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush..

Tragacanth :: Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth..

Flake :: Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.

Snowbird :: Snowbird (n.) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight..

Fleck :: Fleck (n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool..

Desquamation :: Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones..

Flake :: Flake (n.) 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..

Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size..

Snow :: Snow (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A paling; a hurdle.

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