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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak.
A great tobacco taker too, — that's flat. Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a
flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; — applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished
from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. — Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
— Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures
by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight. — Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
— Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File. — Flat nail, a small,
sharp- pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. Knight. — Flat paper, paper
which has not been folded. — Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal
sleeper. — Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump
rods at a distance. Raymond. — Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.
Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making
a wide, flat band. Knight. — Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space. — Flat stitch, the process
of wood engraving. [Obs.] — Flat tint (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. — To
fall flat to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. Lord Erskine. Flat
(Flat) adv.
1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. Herbert. 2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
Flat
(Flat), n.
1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United
States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon. 2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the
tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
Half my power, this night
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak. 3. Something broad and flat in form; as: (a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(b) A straw hat, broad- brimmed and low-crowned. (c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body
of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. (d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic
designs, etc., are carried in processions.
4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence
in itself.
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