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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
FLA'IL, n. [L. flagellum. We retain the original verb in flog, to strike, to lay on, L. fligo, whence affligo, to afflict; plaga, a stroke, or perhaps from the same root as lick and lay. Gr. See Lick.]
An instrument for threshing or beating grain
from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the
end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is
so hung as to swing freely.
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton. An ancient military weapon, like the
common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of
spikes, or loaded.
Fairholt.
No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay. | ||||||||