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FLAKE, n. [L. floccus; Gr. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.]

1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.

2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.

3. A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow.

Job. 41.

4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.

5. Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.

Little flakes of scurf.

6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.

White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.

FLAKE, v.t. To form into flakes.

FLAKE, v.i. To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.

1913 Definition
Flake (flake)
n.(fl1913 webster dictionaryk)
Flake
[Cf. Icel. flaki, fleki, Dan. flage, D. vlaak.]
  1. A paling; a hurdle.
    [prov. Eng.]
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

    You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman.

  3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
  4. 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.
    "Lottle flakes of scurf." Addison.

    Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn.

  5. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.

    With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville.

  6. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

    Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. Ure.

  7. To form into flakes.
    Pope.
  8. To separate in flakes] to peel or scale off.
  9. A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

    Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate. F. T. Bullen.


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