2. Verb. (third-person singular of flash) ¹
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Definition of Flashes
1. flash [v] - See also: flash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashes
Literary usage of Flashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"Captain MACLEAR said that on June 6th he saw several lightning flashes that were
most persistent, some lasted two seconds, and one especially faded ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"In John Pointer's Rational account of the Weather, 1783, there is a curious
observation showing that he had observed several flashes of lightning following ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... DARK flashes. the tape to the solid rod. Increase of surface diminishes
impedance ; and as impedance is probably at the bottom of side flashes and ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The lightning that flashes so bright and so free, Is scarcely so blithe or ...
I am Queen of the Wake, and I 'm Lady of May, The wild-fire that flashes so ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"FIXED LIGHT WITH flashes ON CAPE BUSTO— ATLANTIC, COAST OF SPAIN. ... The light
is a fixed white light, varied by red flashes every 2 minutes, ..."
6. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"With Tales of Buls, Clenches, and flashes, as also here and there a touch of our
Beare-Garden." Lond. 1638, 8°. Although there are several anecdotes ..."
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