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Scissorstail :: Scissorstail (n.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers..

Flanker :: Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.

Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.

Barde :: Barde (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.].

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only

Tower :: Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher..

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

Flankered :: Flankered (imp. & p. p.) of Flanke.

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back..

Flanking :: Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flan.

Wich :: Wich (n.) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players..

Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..

Flank :: Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

Stifled :: Stifle (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef..

Overwing :: Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.

Demigorge :: Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne..

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank..

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