Definition of flake

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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..

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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..
Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..
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..
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..
Fleck :: Fleck (n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool..
Caned :: Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Snow :: Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes..
Besnow :: Besnow (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes..
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..
Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow..
Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
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..
Flake :: Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
Flaked :: Flaked (imp. & p. p.) of Flak.
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..
Flake :: Flake (n.) A paling; a hurdle.
Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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