<B>flyboat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any fast sailing ship or boat. </DL>
<A NAME="flybook">
<B>fly book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small case somewhat like a wallet for carrying artificial fishing flies. </DL>
<A NAME="flyboy">
<B>flyboy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a flier, especially one in the Air Force. </DL>
<A NAME="flybridge">
<B>fly bridge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a platform on top of a cabin cruiser equipped with duplicate controls. Also, <B>flying bridge.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="flyby">
<B>fly-by, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bys.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a flight of a space vehicle close to a planet or other heavenly body. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=flyover.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="flybynight">
<B>fly-by-night, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> not to be trusted; not reliable; irresponsible. <BR> <I>Ex. a fly-by-night real-estate speculator.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Informal.) <B>1. </B>a person who avoids paying his debts by leaving secretly at night. <DD><B> 2. </B>an unreliable or irresponsible person. </DL>
<A NAME="flybynighter">
<B>fly-by-nighter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an unreliable or irresponsible person, especially one who misrepresents merchandise. <BR> <I>Ex. Once only fly-by-nighters in dingy back streets offered fake bargains (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flybywire">
<B>fly-by-wire, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an electronic guidance system that adjusts the path of a space capsule automatically after it is turned on manually. </DL>
<A NAME="flycaster">
<B>fly-caster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who casts for fish with rod and line, using an artificial fly as bait. </DL>
<A NAME="flycasting">
<B>fly-casting, </B>noun, adjective, or <B>fly casting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the sport of fishing with rod and line, using an artificial fly as bait. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with fly-casting. <BR> <I>Ex. a fly-casting rod.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flycatcher">
<B>flycatcher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a family of songless, American perching birds that catch flies and other insects while flying. The tyrant flycatcher has small, weak feet, a short neck, and a large head with a broad, flattened bill hooked at the tip. The kingbird, phoebe, and crested flycatcher are common examples. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a family of Old World perching birds related to the thrush. </DL>
<A NAME="flycruise">
<B>fly-cruise, </B>noun, verb, <B>-cruised,</B> <B>-cruising.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a pleasure cruise using air travel to reach the cruise ship's port of embarkation and to return from the port of landing. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to go on a fly-cruise. </DL>
<A NAME="flyer">
<B>flyer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=flier.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) a try; an experimental venture into something. <BR> <I>Ex. He finally got back to Massachusetts by way of lecturing at Harvard and taking a flyer at magazine editing (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an aerialist who swings from a trapeze through the air to another performer or to another trapeze. <BR> <I>Ex. The circus ... is sunning itself here on the Gulf of Mexico, where the flyers are flying through the warm winter air (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a vagrant, light wind. <BR> <I>Ex. We had to row all-out to keep up with the little flyers when the puffs hardened (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flyfish">
<B>fly-fish, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to fish with flies, natural or artificial, as bait; fly-casting. </DL>
<A NAME="flyfishing">
<B>fly-fishing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> fishing with natural or artificial flies as bait. </DL>
<A NAME="flyfront">
<B>fly-front, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a fly covering buttons or fastenings. </DL>
<A NAME="flygallery">
<B>fly gallery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a high, narrow platform at the side of the stage in a theater, from which scenery is lowered and raised. </DL>
<A NAME="flyhalf">
<B>fly-half, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rugby Football.) a stand-off halfback. </DL>
<A NAME="flyin">
<B>fly-in, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a landing field for airplanes or helicopters. </DL>
<A NAME="flying">
<B>flying, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that flies; moving through the air. <BR> <I>Ex. the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (George Leybourne).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>floating or waving in the air. <DD><B> 3. </B>swift; rapid. <BR> <I>Ex. Earth rolls back beneath the flying steed (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>short and quick; hasty. <BR> <I>Ex. a flying visit.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>fleeing; running away. <DD><B> 6. </B>organized for rapid movement or prompt action. <BR> <I>Ex. a flying squad.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of a person or thing that flies. (SYN) flight. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Theater.) <DD><B> a. </B>a method of changing scenery by raising and lowering units suspended overhead as they are needed on the stage. <DD><B> b. </B>a drop, curtain, border, ceiling, or other unit used in flying. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingboat">
<B>flying boat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a seaplane with a watertight body that floats in the water like the hull of a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingbomb">
<B>flying bomb,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an unmanned, winged, guided missile, such as a buzz bomb. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingboxcar">
<B>flying boxcar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large transport and cargo-carrying airplane. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingbridge">
<B>flying bridge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the highest bridge of several on a ship, located next to the control tower. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=fly bridge.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a pontoon or other temporary bridge. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingbuttress">
<B>flying buttress,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an arched support or brace built between the wall of a building and a supporting column to bear some of the outward pressure of the weight of the roof. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingcircus">
<B>flying circus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a circular formation of aircraft in which each follows another, protecting its rear, used in World War I. <DD><B> 2a. </B>an organized group of aircraft which gives exhibitions of acrobatics. <DD><B> b. </B>an exhibition by such a group. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingcolors">
<B>flying colors,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>success; victory. <BR> <I>Ex. The team finished the tournament with flying colors.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>flags flying. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingcolumn">
<B>flying column,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a military force, now usually an armored force supported by motorized infantry and some artillery, that can move swiftly ahead or on the side of the main body. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingdisk">
<B>flying disk,</B> <B>=flying saucer.</B></DL>
<A NAME="flyingdoctor">
<B>flying doctor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a doctor, especially in Australia, who tends the sick and injured in outlying areas by flying in to treat them. <BR> <I>Ex. In May 1928 Dr. K. St. Vincent Welch, the first flying doctor, set up practice at Cloncurry in Queensland (Lancet).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flyingdragon">
<B>flying dragon,</B> <B>=flying lizard.</B></DL>
<A NAME="flyingdutchman">
<B>Flying Dutchman,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a legendary Dutch sea captain condemned to sail the seas until the Day of Judgment. <DD><B> 2. </B>his ghostlike ship, supposed to appear to mariners near the Cape of Good Hope in storms, and regarded by sailors as a bad omen. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingfield">
<B>flying field,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small tract of land where aircraft can land or take off. It is much smaller and has fewer facilities than an airport. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingfish">
<B>flying fish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tropical sea fish that has pectoral fins like wings and can leap for some distance through the air. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingfortress">
<B>flying fortress</B> or <B>Flying Fortress,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, armored bomber, used extensively by the United States during World War II. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingfox">
<B>flying fox,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, fruit-eating bat of tropical countries of the Old World. It has a foxlike head. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingfrog">
<B>flying frog,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an East Indian frog with large, webbed toes that help it to glide through the air. </DL>
<A NAME="flyinggurnard">
<B>flying gurnard,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a marine fish with winglike pectoral fins, that can fly short distances. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingjib">
<B>flying jib,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, triangular sail set in front of the regular jib. </DL>
<A NAME="flyinglemur">
<B>flying lemur,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an East Indian mammal that resembles a lemur and has a broad fold of skin on each side of its body which it spreads and glides from tree to tree; colugo. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingline">
<B>flying line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the string from which a kite is flown. </DL>
<A NAME="flyinglizard">
<B>flying lizard,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the small, brightly colored lizards living in the trees of southeastern Asia and having a broad, winglike membrane on each flank covering extended ribs, that enables them to glide some distance through the air; flying dragon. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingmachine">
<B>flying machine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an airplane or helicopter. <BR> <I>Ex. The challenge of the missile does not mean that the flying machine is outdated. On the contrary there will always be great need for the work of the manned aircraft, which it alone can perform (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an airship. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingmare">
<B>flying mare,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Wrestling.) a move made by seizing the opponent's wrist, turning, and throwing him forward and down across the shoulder. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingmouse">
<B>flying mouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small Australian flying phalanger. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingofficer">
<B>flying officer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a commissioned officer in the Australian, British, or Canadian air force, corresponding in rank to first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. (Abbr:) F.O. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingpay">
<B>flying pay,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> additional pay given to members of an air force who participate in regular authorized flights; flight pay. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingphalanger">
<B>flying phalanger,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a phalanger (marsupial quadruped) of Australia and South Pacific islands with a fold of skin along each side of the body which it extends to glide through the air. </DL>
<A NAME="flyingsaucer">
<B>flying saucer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an unidentified, disklike object reported in the sky over many different parts of the world, especially since 1947; unidentified flying object; UFO. <BR> <I>Ex. When Kenneth Arnold saw something from his airplane near Mount Rainier in June 1947, he gave them the happy name of flying saucers (New Society).</I> </DL>
