Definition of flash

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Flash (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry..

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Flashiness :: Flashiness (n.) The quality of being flashy.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Dazzlement :: Dazzlement (n.) Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light..
Flashily :: Flashily (adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..
Filleting :: Filleting (n.) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work..
Flashy :: Flashy (a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress..
Emicant :: Emicant (a.) Beaming forth; flashing.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..
Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning..
Flashing :: Flashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flas.
Throttler :: Throttler (n.) See Flasher, 3 (b)..
Apron :: Apron (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
Flusher :: Flusher (n.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
Flash :: Flash (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated..
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking..
Intermicate :: Intermicate (v. i.) To flash or shine between or among.
Twinkle :: Twinkle (v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate..
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