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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..

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.

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

Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) See Snowbird, 1..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..

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

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

Flaked :: Flaked (imp. & p. p.) of Flak.

Pill :: Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

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

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