Flash(a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
Flash(a.) 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(n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
Flash(n.) A pool.
Flash(n.) 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(n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
Flash(n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
Flash(n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
Flash(n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
Flash(n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
Flash(n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
Flash(v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
Flash(v. i.) 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.
Flash(v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Flash(v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
Flash(v. t.) 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.
Flash(v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
Flashed(imp. & p. p.) of Flash
Flashes(pl. ) of Flash
Flashing(n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Flashing(n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
Flashing(n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
Flashing(n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Flashing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash
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