What is "flouted"

nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj. Not moving. Opposite of moving. [Narrower terms: at rest, inactive, motionless, static, still; becalmed ; {dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still; frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; {immobile, unmoving] Also See: immobile.

flytrap \fly"trap\ (fl[imac]"tr[a^]p), n.

1. A trap for catching flies.

2. (Bot.) A plant (Dion[ae]a muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, having two-lobed leaves which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain sensitive hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus trapping insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves. The plant is native to North and South Carolina, growing in bogs.

Immeability \Im`me*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Pref. im- not + L. meabilis passable, fr. meare to pass.] Lack of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeability of the juices.
--Arbuthnot.

Ambrein \Am"bre*in\, n. [Cf. F. ambr['e]ine. See Amber.] (Chem.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]

1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

   Our degeneration and apostasy.
   --Bates.

2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.

3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

4. The thing degenerated. [R.]

   Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.
   --Sir T. Browne.

   Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.

Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique.]

1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
   --Beau. & Fl.

3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
   --Tusser.

4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Wright. Raymond.

5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]

6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Halliwell.

7. A turnpike; a toll bar.
   --Dickens.

8. (Zo["o]l.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ( Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.

   Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.

   Gar pike. See under Gar.

   Pike perch (Zo["o]l.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.

   Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.

   Pike whale (Zo["o]l.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic ( Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.

   Sand pike (Zo["o]l.), the lizard fish.

   Sea pike (Zo["o]l.), the garfish (a) .

Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te, OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr, s[oe]tr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]

1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.

   The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
   --Longfellow.

3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.

   To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
   --Chaucer.

   A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful.
   --Hawthorne.

4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.

   Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
   --Milton.

5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
   --Bacon.

6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:

   1. Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.

   2. Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.

7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 3

   1. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum. Sweet apple. (Bot.)

      1. Any apple of sweet flavor.

      2. See Sweet-top. Sweet bay. (Bot.)

         1. The laurel ( laurus nobilis).

         2. Swamp sassafras. Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora ( P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. Sweet cicely. (Bot.)

            1. Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers.
               --Gray.

            2. A plant of the genus Myrrhis ( M. odorata) growing in England.

               Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below.

               Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ( Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.

               Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.

               Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ( Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America.

               Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn.

               Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ( Comptonia asplenifolia syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.

               Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant ( Acorus Calamus) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See Calamus,

   2. Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub ( Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale. Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ( Liquidambar styraciflua). See Liquidambar. Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse. Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram. Sweet marten (Zo["o]l.), the pine marten. Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ( Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil. Sweet oil, olive oil. Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea. Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato. Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag. Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit. Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ( Centaurea moschata), also, the yellow-flowered ( C. odorata); -- called also sultan flower. Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] Sweet William.

      1. (Bot.) A species of pink ( Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties.

      2. (Zo["o]l.) The willow warbler.

      3. (Zo["o]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.]

         Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.

         Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.

         To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.]
         --Thackeray.

         Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.

clusia \clusia\ n. an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers.

Blazing \Blaz"ing\, a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. --Sir W. Scott. Blazing star.

1. A comet. [Obs.]

2. A brilliant center of attraction.

3. (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

Contemplativeness \Con*tem"pla*tive*ness\, n. The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.

Flout \Flout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.] To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

Phillida flouts me.
--Walton.

Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
--Byron.

a. 1 (context botany English) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf 2 (context ecology English) Of or pertaining to mesophily

a. 1 unable to move or act; inanimate. 2 sluggish or lethargic. 3 In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds. 4 Having no therapeutic action. n. (context chemistry English) A substance that does not react chemically.

adv. In a totemic manner; with regard to totems

n. Category:en:Drugs A muscle relaxant having the chemical formula C₃₅H₆₀N₂O₄, and typically administered as a bromide salt

n. The process or result of structuralize; the giving of structure to something.

n. (context computing especially in the emulation of video games English) A file that contains an emulator or virtualizer state at the moment it was saved to disk. Popular in console emulation, the file contains the contents of the memory, registers and other pertinent data that allows the user to resume the application from the moment the file was created.

n. Inability to pass through or to permit passage.

n. A fragrant substance derived from ambergris, used in the perfume industry.

n. A cochlear implant.

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse. 2 (context uncountable English) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure. 3 (context uncountable English) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4 (context countable English) A thing that has degenerated.

alt. The European pike. n. The European pike.

n. (eye dialect of morning English)

a. (context sports English) Involving the scoring of multiple points, especially by a particular player.

n. (context pathology English) amyloidosis of the spleen

n. A rock which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.

n. 1 A bitter American herb of the bloodwort family (''(taxlink Haemodoraceae family noshow=1)''), with small yellow or white flowers in a long spike. 2 Any of several other plants with bitter roots. 3 # (taxlink Aletris genus noshow=1) ''spp.'' 4 # (taxlink Apocynum androsaemifolium species noshow=1) 5 # ''Asarum canadense'' 6 # ''Asclepias tuberosa'' 7 # (taxlink Dioscorea villosa species noshow=1) 8 # (taxlink Liatris squarrosa species noshow=1)

n. (alternative form of electronic cigarette English)

a. Without a genre.

n. The state or quality of being contemplative.

vb. (en-past of: flout)