Definition of flake

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

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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..
Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc..
Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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..
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Besnow :: Besnow (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes..
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..
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..
Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.
Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..
Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..
Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow..
Snow :: Snow (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms..
Flake :: Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes..
Snow :: Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes..
Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
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