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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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.

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