Definition of flake

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

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Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
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..
Pill :: Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.
Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow..
Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes..
Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Manna :: Manna (n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe..
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Caned :: Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.
Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..
Desquamation :: Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones..
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..
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..
Flake :: Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.
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..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
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..
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