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Flashing

noun

1.

A short vivid experience. Synonym: flash. "The flashings of pain were a warning"

2.

Sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing.

Flash

verb

(past & past part. flashed; pres. part. flashing)

1.

Gleam or glow intermittently. Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle.

2.

Appear briefly.

3.

Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously. Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank.

4.

Make known or cause to appear with great speed.

5.

Run or move very quickly or hastily. Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot.

6.

Expose or show briefly.

7.

Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal.

8.

Emit a brief burst of light.

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... switches clear over in flashing arcs, and instantly over both men there came a sensation akin to a tremendously intensified vertigo; but a vertigo as far beyond the space-sickness of weightlessness, as that horrible sensation is beyond mere ...

— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith

... sea, had dazzled their eyes, and for the last quarter of an hour they had seen nothing on the westward horizon. But now the bright silver light was fading into a dull, glorious purple; and full upon its bosom a strange sail was seen, making direct for the harbour. The sunlight was still flashing upon its white sails,—little specks of gold upon a background of richer colouring—and they saw that she was a handsome, shapely-looking vessel, very different to the dirty Italian lugger which put in at their harbour for a ...

— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... adores them, you know. He's going to marry Coral next," she laughed out, flashing the joke around the table with all her ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... smiling and happy. She knows she has a pretty foot, and that it is neatly clad in red shoes with tapering points and the most becoming of hosiery. She knows her figure is trim, and that her cheeks are bright and her eyes flashing. Applause follows her from the mosque to the temple of Luxor, and rolls back again as her beast turns for the ...

— The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair - Their Observations and Triumphs • Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')

... had been conversing with the night before—he turned short round upon his heel, while Don Philip and Don Martin walked up and down talking, so that he might hear what they said, and looking at him with eyes flashing with indignation. Captain Tartar left the ballroom and returned to the inn, more indignant than ever. When he rose the next morning he was informed that a gentleman wished to speak with him; he sent up his card as ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

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