(n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

(n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.

(n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

(n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.

(n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

(n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

(n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

(n.) The matter thus discharged.

(n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

(n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

(v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

(v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.

(v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.

(n.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

(n.) One of the northern constellations.

(n.) Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground.

(n.) Quicklime.

(n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.

(n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

(adv. & a.) Braced aback.

(n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.

(n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.

(n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

(n.) See Fauces.

(v. t.) To extract.

(n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

(n.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

(n.) The holm oak (Quercus Ilex).

(n.) A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.

(n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

(v. t.) To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

(n.) "The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes."

(n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.

(n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

(n.) The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.

(v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.

(n.) Flax.

(n.) Down; fur.

(n.) The flux; dysentery.

(n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.

(n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.