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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
FLASH, n.
FLASH, v.i.
FLASH, v.t.
1913 Definition
To burst or break forth with a sudden and
transient flood of flame and light] as, the lighting flashes
vividly; the powder flashed.
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.
Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles. Talfourd. The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. M. Arnold. A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. Tennyson. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to
break out violently; to rush hastily.
Every hour To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett. Syn. -- Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister. Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst
forth with sudden flame or light.
The chariot of paternal Deity, To convey as by a flash; to light up, as
by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the
wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
To cover with a thin
layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See
Flashing,
To trick up in a showy manner.
Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer. To strike and throw up
large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
[Obs.]
He rudely flashed the waves about. Spenser. Flashed glass. See Flashing,
A sudden
burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and
disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of
lightning.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or
genius; a momentary brightness or show.
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak. No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy. Wirt. The time during which a flash is visible;
an instant; a very brief period.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. Bacon. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar,
etc., for coloring and giving a fictitious strength to
liquors.
Flash light, or Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing. Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as,
flash jewelry; flash finery.
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.
Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay. Slang or cant of thieves
and prostitutes.
A pool.
[Prov. Eng.]
Haliwell. A reservoir and
sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the
stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the
shoal.
Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level. | ||||||||
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