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Flash [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; as a flash of lightning.

2. A sudden burst of flame and light; as instantaneous blaze; as the flash of a gun.

3. A sudden burst, as of wit or merriment; as a flash of wit; a flash of joy or mirth.

4. His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy -

5. A short, transient state.

6. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash

7. A body of water driven by violence. [Local.]

8. A little pool. [Local.]

Flash [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst or open instantly on the sight, as splendor. It differs from glitter, glisten and gleam in 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. A diamond may glitter or glisten, but it does not flash flash differs from other words also in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance.

2. To burst or break forth with a flood of flame and light; as, the powder flashed in the pan. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding, in not being accompanied with a loud report.

3. To burst out into any kind of violence.

4. Every hour he flashes into one gross crime or other.

5. To break out, as a sudden expression of wit, merriment or bright thought.

Flash [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To strike up a body of water from the surface.

2. He rudely flashed the waves.

3. [In this sense I believe this word is not used in America.]

4. To strike or to throw like a burst of light; as, to flash conviction on the mind.

Flash [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

2. 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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To trick up in a showy manner.

2. To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

3. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

4. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

5. The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

6. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

7. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

8. A pool.

9. 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

2. 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.

3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

Flash [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

2. 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.

3. To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

Flashboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.

Flashed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flasher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A man of more appearance of wit than reality.

2. A rower. [Not in use.]

Flasher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, flashes.

2. A man of more appearance of wit than reality.

3. A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

4. The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

Flashes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flashily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With empty show; with a sudden glare; without solidity of wit or thought.

Flashily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a flashy manner; with empty show.

Flashiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being flashy.

Flashing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bursting forth as a flood of light, or of flame and light, or as wit, mirth or joy.

Flashing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.

Flashing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flashy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Showy, but empty; dazzling for a moment, but not solid; as flashy wit.

2. Showy; gay; as a flashy dress.

3. Insipid; vapid; without taste or spirit; as food or drink.

4. Washy; plashy. [ See Plash .]

Flashy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.

2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous.

3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.

4. Without taste or spirit.

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Exodus 9:24

So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

Deuteronomy 32:41

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Job 15:12

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Job 37:15

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Job 39:23

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.

Job 41:18

By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Psalms 77:17

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Psalms 144:6

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Ezekiel 1:4

And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,

Ezekiel 1:13

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

Ezekiel 1:14

And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

Ezekiel 21:15

I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:28

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

Hosea 11:6

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

Amos 5:9

That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

Nahum 2:3

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.

Nahum 3:3

The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—

Habakkuk 3:4

And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.