Wave (verb), brandish, flourish, flaunt, wigwag.

Even the modern nations have not got much farther; and we can judge of their stage of advancement by the beasts of prey they, flaunt on their banners or the deep-throat curses which resound in their national anthems.

In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun; The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook, And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook; From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

She donned a gown and bonnet of black in testimony of her bereavement, but there was no unnecessary flaunt of crape in her decently symbolic garb.

Gravitation would presently pull down my shoulders, my face would flaunt "the wrinkled spoils of age", my voice would waver ominously, and I should forfeit the dignities befitting even this decay by still playing childish games of belief with some foolish dog.

forbear to flaunt yourself, All bloom and dew I once, sad-hearted as I am, Was young as you.

It really is affecting, the jolly good heart with which these bright children of the rainbow flaunt and wave and dance and go on budding and blossoming in the very teeth and snarl of oncoming winter.

Shall it flaunt its death where sad eyes may see In the cold dank wind of our memory?

Or will you lie during still noons up among the farmers' fields where myriad bandrol corn-poppies flaunt over your head, and stain your finger-tips with the red berries that hang like globes of light in the palace-gardens of mites and midges, soaking yourself in hot sunshine and south-winds and heavy aromatic earth-scents?" "Come!" said Mrs. Laudersdale, rising earnestly, like one in an eager dream.

So falls the perfect day of June, To moonlit eve from dewy dawn; With light winds rustling through the noon, And conscious roses half-withdrawn In blushing buds, that wake too soon, And flaunt their hearts on every lawn.

They do not grumble about their simple food and their coarse clothes, and flaunt about, saying 'freemen ought to live better.'

He alone was left to flaunt a banner the motto of which he didn't wholly believe, while Adelaide, at a word from Vincent, had gone over to the other side.

By it they flaunt defiance in the face of the world and are afraid of the imputation of prudence.

Now why do you flaunt your power against us in the mountains?

One readily comprehends that he might graciously accept her gratitude; but, as the French Poodle's People say, "Noblesse Oblige," and it certainly seemed unnecessary that a dog of his achievement should flaunt his affection for a mere cat in the eyes of the whole world.

So they flaunt past with an odour of perfume, and leave the 'old lady' to plod unrecognised.

He had vanity enough to flaunt it rather than wit enough to turn it to account.

If I were Lord of Tartary, Myself and me alone, My bed should be of ivory, Of beaten gold my throne; And in my court would peacocks flaunt, And in my forests tigers haunt, And in my pools great fishes slant Their fins athwart the sun.

The tricks to filch purses from the gaily-dressed ladies who flaunt in the churches, who serve as models to our poets of the golden age to depict a lying world devoid of honour.

Nor in the bower, Where woodbines flaunt, and roses shed a couch, While evening draws her crimson curtains round, Trust your soft minutes with betraying man.

Never shall the gray mare flaunt it first, in Plassenburg!"

Now that they were out, he forgot for a moment the self-amusing plaint of conjugal separation to flaunt his triumph.

In Boyville it is a shameful thing to flaunt the secrets of the heart.

On every hoarding posters flaunt the charms of peak, and loch, and sea, To madden those unfortunates who have to stay in townlike me!

Had she intended to flaunt his folly in his face, or had she believed he still mourned for it and deemed its recovery a sufficient reward for his slight service?

Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.

Unless, indeed, the insurrection of the outsiders takes a still graver form, and the Press, which has ceased entirely to be a Party Press in Great Britain, helps some adventurous Prime Minister to flout and set aside the lower House altogether.

* A PRESIDENTIAL FLOUT.

Parwín and Mushtarí they flung, In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my Beinglet the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.

The man hath many a foe, As far as I do know: You do not flout me, I hope.

'tis not unknown what service of words he hath been at; he lost his limbs in a late conflict of flout; a brave repulse and a hot assault it was, he doth protest, as ever he saw, since he knew what the report of a volley of jests were; he shall therefore desire you"A

Why, she will flout the devil, and make blush The boldest face of man that e'er man saw;

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.' 30 'Spare your comparisons,' replied An angry rose, who grew beside. 'Of all mankind, you should not flout us; What can a poet do without us!

Small craftsmall craft, to harry and to flout 'em!

I plead in vain, She hears my suit with sweet disdain, When I remind herspeaking low That once she did not flout me so, She asks medo I think 'twill rain?

vilipendency^, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy &c 895; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision^; derision; mockery; irony &c (ridicule) 856; sarcasm. hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek^, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.

point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at. turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds &c (repudiate) 610; send away with a flea in the ear.

The quicker flow of blood that came with awaking, the expanding thrill of physical strength and buoyancy of life renewed, brought with it the moral courage which morning often brings to flout the compromises of the confusion of the evening's weariness.

Or, with arms upon his bosom folded, He will stand as motionless as bronze, While his features, classically moulded, Hourly grow more like NAPOLEON'S. What the Conference will do without him Hardly can we venture to surmise; Delegates who would not dare to flout him Manifest their joy without disguise.

But come no longer here to flout us, Since, truly, thou canst do without us; For dignity is lost in sport, An outlaw for contempt of court; We banish thee with all thy pride Until thy heart be rarified.

And wherefore wail for one, Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn By dressing it in rags?

And so she left me, inly to repine That such as she could flout such charms as mine.

A maid, and flout the Paphian?

" The exquisite beauty and elaborate ornament of Melrose can, according to the entertaining work already quoted, be told only in a volume of prose; but, as compression is the spirit of true poetry, we quote the following descriptive lines: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray.

Let us flout him, instead, with some gay song."

For twenty years you have dared to flout that love which is God's noblest heritage to His children.

It might be dangerous to flout such a sign from heaven.

You flout and jeer.

They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!

To spank a child, or flout a fool, hurts without harming.