FLASK
\flˈask], \flˈask], \f_l_ˈa_s_k]\
Definitions of FLASK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
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A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
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A bed in a gun carriage.
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The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
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A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
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A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
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A bed in a gun carriage.
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The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of bottle, as a flask of wine or oil; specifically, (a), a narrow necked globular glass bottle; as, a Florence flask; (b) a metal or other pocket dram-bottle; as, a pocket flask; (c) a vessel, generally of metal or horn, for containing gunpowder. carried by sportsmen, usually furnished with a measure of the charge at the top; (d) a vessel for containing mercury; a flask of mercury from California is about 75 lbs.; a shallow frame of wood or iron, used in foundries to contain the sand employed in moulding.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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