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Definition of Flisks
1. flisk [v] - See also: flisk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flisks
Literary usage of Flisks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"I did this process in flisks, but found the Medical Officer here was doing the
process in porcelain basins, which I now adopt. If one omits to evaporate the ..."
2. Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects: Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads by John Russell Smith (1839)
"... and flisks and kicks, Tell her thou sees through o' her shallow tricks, And
sen she leads thee seck a wild-goose chace, Thou'lt owr the burn off hand to ..."
3. The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland: To which are Added Dialect and Other by Sidney Gilpin (1866)
"When neist Nan frumps and frowns, and flisks and kicks, ' Tell her thou sees
through aw her shallow tricks, And sen she leads thee sec a wild-goose chase, ..."
4. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1862)
"I have also heard of cases of what the men call " flisks," slight flashes under
the boiler, but anything approaching the explosion from this flue is ..."
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