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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Flashboard :: Flashboard (n.) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard..
Distriction :: Distriction (n.) Sudden display; flash; glitter.
Torch :: Torch (n.) A flashlight.
Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..
Apron :: Apron (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
Flushboard :: Flushboard (n.) Same as Flashboard.
Emicant :: Emicant (a.) Beaming forth; flashing.
Twinkle :: Twinkle (n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated..
Flashy :: Flashy (a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress..
Argot :: Argot (n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash..
Sunbonnet :: Sunblink (n.) A glimpse or flash of the sun.
Morse Alphabet :: Morse alphabet () A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them..
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..
Flash :: Flash (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
Glance :: Glance (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Flasher :: Flasher (n.) The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
Flashily :: Flashily (adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.
Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..
Sparkle :: Sparkle (n.) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle..
Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash..
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